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
Uście Zielone
Buczacz pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Ustya-Zelene
Monastyryska rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
166
max.:
167
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00441
date:
1943.03
site
description
general info
Uście Zielone
An OUN militia murdered 18 Poles: „A UPA militia led by our neighbor Borysa and Ukrainian peasants from the town burst into our house one night in March 1943. They came for my father. He managed to hide in the attic, they found him there and shot him. Blood trickled down the wall into the kitchen room in a wide stream. Desperation. I screamed out loud, one blow with the butt of a bandera and landed under the bed. I fell silent. They came with a ready list of people to be annihilated, and the rest of the household were spared their lives. – We will also come for you soon! they exclaimed as they left. That evening the Banderites brutally murdered 18 people from Uście Zielona. They were buried in the parish cemetery in a mass grave. You will not find information about this significant fact from the history of that place in any study or list of crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Podolia”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Korotasz Eugeniusz, „My Borderlands”; in: portal: Brzeg24.pl — web page: www.brzeg24.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
18
min. 18
max. 18
ref. no:
05406
date:
1944.02
site
description
general info
Uście Zielone
Probably in February 1944: „At the beginning of 1943, director Woźniak gave us shelter and built a bunker under the floor. This went on for several weeks until he once said we were being followed. One day I went out in the evening to cook something, then I saw that the whole house was guarded by the gang, headed by Humeniuk Józef; then they threw a grenade into the bunker, where some were killed on the spot and the rest were injured, only two girls were left unharmed. While in my cell, I saw how director He bound Woźniak personally with barbed wire and hung it on the door [ah], then he cut his fingers off, and when the director shouted, he cut his tongue out and left it there. The girls who remained alive, Humeniuk and the whole gang, there were about 20–25 of them, they raped, then they killed by hitting the head with an iron bar, until my brain splashed at the ceiling. It was in the same year, when the gang set fire to the village of Korościatyn (on the night of February 28–29, 1944 – note by S.Ż.), a few houses remained in the middle of the village, not burned, then Humeniuk and his gang gathered all the other women he led [them] to one drying room, ripped the duvets, poured feathers on [them] and set them on fire; [there] they were all burned alive”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Report from the interrogation of Regina Krochmal on March 3, 1949”; in: „Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s”, in: Warsaw-Kiev 2005, vol. 4, part 2, p. 9 — web page: zbrodniawolynska.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
H. Komański et Sz. Siekierka […] do not record this murder.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 176—177
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
unknown, at least 3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
05088
date:
1944.02.20
site
description
general info
Uście Zielone
The UPA murdered 2 Poles: the pharmacist Korolczuk and Paulina Beszkiewicz (she is not given by Komański., p. 176).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 176
Unfortunately, during this attack, the so–called an organist, my aunt Paulina Beszkiewicz, my father's youngest sister, was murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Korotasz Eugeniusz, „My Borderlands”; in: portal: Brzeg24.pl — web page: www.brzeg24.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
05618
date:
1944.03.12–1944.03.13
site
description
general info
Uście Zielone
12 – 13 March 1944 in Uście Zielone. Murdered: Sługocka Maria; Sługocka Bronisława; Sługocki Sigismud; Gutek Roman; Gutek Janina; Gutek Maria; Gutek Danuta; Byszkiewicz Wojciech; Nazarkiewicz, Władysław.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, July 17 - Letter from PolKO in Stanisławów to the Director of RGO in Kraków containing a personal list of people abducted and murdered from the beginning of the attacks, from September 1943 to July 15, 1944”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 349—373
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
08541
date:
1944.11
site
description
general info
Uście Zielone
Jankowski Kazimierz was murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09353
date:
1945.02.02
site
description
general info
Uście Zielone
During the night raid of the UPA and the local Ukrainian peasants, 133 Poles were killed, they were burned alive, tied with barbed wire, and drowned in the Dniester River, chopped with axes. A dozen or so captured boys from the „Istriebital Battalion” were led by the Banderites to the Dniester River, stripped naked and ordered to dance on the ice, shooting them in the legs, whoever fell, alive or dead, was pushed to the ice cavity. A Ukrainian, Sławko Hołub, was hanged by his hands on a tree and stabbed with bayonets for refusing to murder Poles, and a piece of paper was hung on his chest: „We know it, we are proty”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
133 – 134
min. 133
max. 134
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