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
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
35
max.:
36
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04502
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Torczyn
The UPA murdered 2 Poles and 3 The Ukrainians (including 2 sisters) for favoring Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
01443
date:
1943.06
site
description
general info
Torczyn
[The Ukrainians] caught the 14‑year‑old d/o Franciszek Liszycki when the family fled from the village of Mańków to Torczyn; and nailed her to the ground with a stake across her belly.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 644
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
02354
date:
1943.07
site
description
general info
Torczyn
The Ukrainians murdered Albin Dąbrowski, who was riding a horse cart.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
02569
date:
1943.08.23
site
description
general info
Torczyn
The Ukrainians murdered Józef Pachołek.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
03789
date:
1943.11
site
description
general info
Torczyn
The Ukrainians murdered Klemens Rudnicki.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
03960
date:
1943.12.24
site
description
general info
Torczyn
On Christmas Eve, during the midnight mass (celebrated without a priest who had already left), Ukrainian nationalists barred the church's door from the outside, poured gasoline over it and set it on fire – all those gathered died (report not published).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kulińska Lucyna; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2012, vol. 4
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
unknown
ref. no:
03961
date:
1943.12.24
site
description
general info
Torczyn
On Christmas Eve 1943, as Władysław Siedlecki writes, the Bandera followers attacked Torczyn. As a result of this attack, a fierce three–hour fight was fought, and the gang was broken. 16 people were found dead on the battlefield. The roof of the rectory and two houses are burnt. Some of the police did not take part in the fight, dispersed and buried in various places. It was the last action – a skirmish between the Home Army unit from Torczyn and the UPA gang. At the end of January 1944, the Polish police were taken to Antonówka. Torczyn was left without any protection. During this period, the church and rectory were burned down.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Bugajski Ryszard, „Torczyn”; in: portal: Volhynia pages — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
16
min. 16
max. 16
ref. no:
04783
date:
1944.01
site
description
general info
The Ukrainians murdered Bolesław Nowakowski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
04757
date:
1944.01.28
site
description
general info
Torczyn
The Banderites murdered the Tchórzewski brothers: Stanisław, 28, and Bolesław, 32.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
05514
date:
1944.03.04
site
description
general info
Torczyn
During the raid, the UPA murdered an unspecified number of Poles, only 8 by name are known, they were refugees from the vicinity.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
unknown
min. 8
max. 8
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EXPLANATIONs
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- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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