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
Wańkowa
Lesko pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lesko cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
30
max.:
71
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
5
max.:
5
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07663
date:
1944.07.30
site
description
general info
Wańkowa
The UPA and the nearby Ukrainian „selfdefence” (SKW) murdered 8 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
07664
date:
1944.07.30
site
description
general info
Konieczny say that on July 30, 54 Poles and a Ukrainian, a Pole's wife, were murdered in the attacks on the villages of Leszczowate, Ropienka, Brelików and Wańkowa. Whereas Sz. Siekierka, H. Komański and K. Bulzacki document the murder of 56 Poles in the same places on the same day.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
54
min. 54
max. 54
ref. no:
09464
date:
1945.02.27
site
description
general info
Wańkowa
The UPA hanged Władysław Szymański.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
12477
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Wańkowa
Excerpt from the statistical study of the OUN regional political clerk on the Ukrainian victims of the armed formations of the Republic of Poland in the area of the 5th 'Chłodny Jar' district in the 1st District of the Zakerzonya Region: […]
„7. Wańkowa — 5 […]
Stopover, December 15, 1946 H‑m”.
source: „Chołodnyj Jar'O. V. Statystyczni dani na deń 30 weresnia 1946”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 3, sh. 122
source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
10847
date:
1946.02.08
site
description
general info
Wańkowa
In the village of Wańkowa, poviat Lesko the UPA murdered the oil worker Jan Kaczmarek.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – February 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11300
date:
1946.10.18
site
description
general info
Wańkowa
[The UPA] murdered 4 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.26]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
11331
date:
1946.11.18
site
description
general info
Wańkowa
The UPA murdered Stanisław Dużyek.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1946 and Autumnof 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.27]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11338
date:
1946.11.29
site
description
general info
Wańkowa
The Banderites murdered 2 Poles. „On November 29, 1946, the UPA gang attacked Wańkowa village in Lesko county, where two people were murdered — Horbowy Władysław and his son Tadeusz”.
source: Prus Edward, „Operation "Vistula"”, in: ed. IV, Wroclaw 2006, p. 289
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1946 and Autumnof 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.27]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
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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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