Roman Catholic parish
St Sigismund
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese
Poland
GENOCIDE perpetrated by UKRAINIANS on POLES
Data for 1943–1947
Site
II Republic of Poland
Tomaszów
Kostopol pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Kostopil rai., Rivne obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
25
max.:
25
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00290
date:
1943.03.25
site
description
general info
Tomaszów
During the attack, the UPA murdered over 20 Poles and a Polish–Ukrainian family of four. „I am looking for a witness of the martyrdom of Zdzisio Gawel, age 5. Someone saw him being led, tied by the neck by the Ukrainians with a tightening loop, and lifted up on this loop as the executioners leading the child walked through the Ukrainian village of Postójne. There were crowds of Ukrainian people talking to each other by the road. Then the leaders of the child raised the chair and the child hovered in the air, waving its arms and legs, because it was suffocating. People turned their heads in horror, not wanting to look at it. And the executioners were amused by the child's reaction and repeated the theater with the next crowd of people. Who saw the final of this inhuman «party»? We have not established how his older brother Julek died. We only guess that he might have died on the farm of Witoszka, a Ukrainian neighbor, or near his dead parents around March 25, 1943. Maybe someone saw the murder? Furmanek Filip and his daughter Helena were murdered on the way to Rivne in July 1943. His wife Marianna was murdered on March 25, 1943 in Tomaszów. Sheaf (a young woman in high pregnancy, her name unknown), was burnt alive in a barn together with other Poles near Janowa Dolina or in Polanówka. unknown date 1943. The murder of Tomaszów, along with many names, is described in the book Returns to Wołyń Krzemionkowskiej Łowkis”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Stefaniak Janina jankasno@wp.pl
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
more than 24
min. 25
max. 25
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EXPLANATIONs
- Lack of info about the perpetrators in the description of a given event (Incident) indicates that the blame should be attributed to the perpetrators listed in general info section.
- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
- English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
- Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
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