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
Tuczapy
Śniatyn pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Tuchapy
Sniatyn rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
20
max.:
20
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
05802
date:
1944.03.26–1944.03.27
site
description
general info
Tuczapy
The Ukrainians murdered 10 Poles.
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:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
05816
date:
1944.03.27
site
description
general info
Tuczapy
The Banderites murdered 10 Poles, including the Balewicz family of 4 and their sons, aged 10 and 12.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
[Józef Matusiak], escaping from his home village [Dżurów], encountered many more signs of murders.
„On that tragic night, of March 27, 1944, in the village of Tuczapy (5 km from Dżurów), the Balewicz family was murdered: Michał, about 40, his wife Maria (34), son Kazimierz (12) and son Adam (10). The house and the corpse were burned down […]
How much Poles suffered the Borderlands in this former Polish soil, no pen and description can fully convey. The bloody glow of the burnt villages, settlements and towns in Pokuttia region spread terror and fear, heralded tragedy and crimes. The Pokuttia lands got splashed down with blood”.
source: Załęczny Jolanta, „Murders not only in Volhynia”, Józef Matusiak memoirs, October 2004; in: „Independence and memories”, in: No. 3—4 (43—44), 2013 — web page: bazhum.muzhp.pl [accessible: 2021.05.30]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
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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.
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