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
Torskie
Zaleszczyki pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Tors'ke
Zalishchyky rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
210
max.:
211
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00150
date:
1943.03.01
site
description
general info
On March 1, 1943 in the village of Torskie, county Zaleszczyki, a Ukrainian policeman, shot a Pole; „on March 1, 1943 the Ukrainian police murdered Kordiatiuk Bolesław, a student of the Jagiellonian University”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7
Others: March 4, 1943 in the village of Beresk, county Bolesław Kondratiuk, 19, was shot by the Ukrainian police while he was performing his duties as a tobacco instructor.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
The village of Torskie is adjacent to the village of Berestek. In the area of Borsszczów was not the village of Beresk.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: GTKRK – own archives
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
00437
date:
1943.03
site
description
general info
Torskie
The Ukrainians murdered 1 Pole.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 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:
01918
date:
1943.07.17
site
description
general info
Torskie
It should also be emphasized that there are more and more accidents […] murdering Polish officials – directly in the office building, like Julian Burakowski, the head of the post office in Torsk on 17 July this year.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, August 7 - Letter from PolKO in Czortków to the German authorities in connection with the wave of Ukrainian attacks in the Czortków poviat”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/1, p. 44389
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
01940
date:
1943.07.18
site
description
general info
Torskie
The Banderites murdered 11 Poles, including the 10–person family of Franciszek Markiewicz.
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:
11
min. 11
max. 11
ref. no:
03300
date:
1943.09
site
description
general info
Torskie
Bronisław (Julian), Burakowski, 30, was murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
03592
date:
1943.10
site
description
general info
Torskie
[The Ukrainians] murdered: Winiewski Antoni, 28 and Frankiel Czesław, 20.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
03681
date:
1943.11.01–1943.11.15
(1st half of November)
site
description
general info
Torskie
(in the vicinity)
In the first half of November, Burakowski, the head of the post office, was murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Situation Report from the Polish Territories, No. 8/44”; in: The Polish Institute and the Gen. Sikorski in London, in: no: PRM — 122
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
08306
date:
1944.10
site
description
general info
Torskie
[The Ukrainians] murdered 49 Poles, a Ukrainian (Polish wife) and 5 Polish—Ukrainian children; 55 people in total. „At the end of October 1944, in the afternoon two or three times of the UPA attacked Torskie. They started with the colony of Jakubówka and the hamlet of Czahor. They killed all the Poles there, looted their houses, and later destroyed or burnt them […] The greatest tragedy took place in the buildings of the Chomiakowski family. Five adults were murdered here, and sixteen children were burned alive in apartment”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Chmura Aleksander, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 889—993
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
49
min. 49
max. 49
ref. no:
08434
date:
1944.11.27
site
description
general info
Torskie
[The Ukrainians] abducted 27 Poles who went missing.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
27
min. 27
max. 27
ref. no:
08693
date:
1944.12.24
site
description
general info
Torskie
On December 24, 1944, taking advantage of the Christmas Eve feast, the gang organized an attack. 73 Poles were killed and 37 people were injured.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
73
min. 73
max. 73
ref. no:
08814
date:
1944.12
site
description
general info
Torskie
The murdered were: „Banaś Szymon, 80, two women named Bednarowska, Bednarowski Dionizy, Bednarowska Weronika, her daughter Stefania, Kaczaniuk N (woman), Kościuk N. (Ukrainian, deac), his wife Maria (nee Stojanowicz) – Polish, Łączyński Antoni aged 18, Mykietiuk Antoni, Płoszczeńska Antonina, Sędziszewski Józef, his wife (Ukrainian)”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
14
min. 14
max. 14
ref. no:
09226
date:
1945.01.01–1945.01.10
site
description
general info
Torskie
The UPA massacred 27 Poles and 3 Ukrainians. „There were seven bodies. Grandma was in a crouching position, with many wounds on her body, five other bodies lying in different positions, with many stab wounds on the body, while our mother was completely naked, with her breast severed, without ears, with a bayonet in the crotch and many stab wounds. and gunshots on the body”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Bednarski Czesław, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 889
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
30
min. 30
max. 30
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