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05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese
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GENOCIDIUM ATROX

GENOCIDE perpetrated by UKRAINIANS on POLES

Data for 1943–1947

Site

II Republic of Poland

Wełdzirz

Dolina pov., Stanisławów voiv.

contemporary

Shevchenkove

Dolyna rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine

Murders

Perpetrators:

Ukrainians

Victims:

Poles

Number of victims:

min.:

99

max.:

99

Location

link to GOOGLE MAPS

events (incidents)

ref. no:

03384

date:

1943.10.10

site

description

general info

Wełdzirz

On 10.X. between Wełdzirz and Comfort, a wagon carrying the following people was attacked: 1. Weiss Marian, clerk of the Forest District; 2. Czajkowski Zachariasz clerk of the Forest District; 3. Wowkonowicz Kazimierz clerk of the Forest District; 4. Majewski, a pharmacist from Wełdzirz.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „1943, October - Collection of reports on Ukrainian attacks in Eastern Lesser Poland, registered by the RGO in Lviv”; in: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: No. 47, p. 5—11, 13—15

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

4

min. 4

max. 4

ref. no:

04521

date:

1943

site

description

general info

Wełdzirz

(in the vicinity)

The UPAs abducted and murdered 3 Poles, including the manager of the pharmacy, while Ukrainian policemen arrested Władysław Karp, who was murdered in a prison in Dolina.

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:

4

min. 4

max. 4

ref. no:

05540

date:

1944.03.07–1944.03.08

site

description

general info

Wełdzirz

[The Ukrainians] murdered 25 Poles, including entire families. „7.3.1944 on Tuesday in Włedzirz [Dolina] 4 houses with closed inhabitants were burnt. As a result, 13 people were burned and shot”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „1944, March 15 - Letter from PolKO in Stryj to the RGO Delegate in Lviv concerning the murders and attacks on the Polish population”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/2, p. 23

In the nearby Wełdzirz [Dolina] valley, 20 people of Polish nationality were murdered. The massacres carried out by Gonta, Żeliźniak and even Shela paler in the face of the atrocities committed by the Ukrainians on Poles. They pluck out eyes, tear out tongues, cut off women's breasts.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „1943, March 20 - Letter Wł. Bobrowski (PolKO Stryj) to the Director of the RGO in Krakow regarding the descriptions of the atrocities committed by Ukrainian gangs in the destruction of the Polish population”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/2, p. 25—26

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

25

min. 25

max. 25

ref. no:

05655

date:

1944.03.15

site

description

general info

Wełdzirz

15.III. Wełdzisz near Dolina, an attack on the Polish population and the burning of the village; 30 people were killed, and 7 were thrown alive into the fire.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „1944, April - A note described in the RGO in Kraków based on information from the field. It concerns the increasing wave of murders and attacks on Poles”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 145—150

Siekierka et al.  […] date the night raid from 7 to 8 March 1944.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 33

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

30

min. 30

max. 30

ref. no:

06310

date:

1944.04.07–1944.04.08

site

description

general info

Wełdzirz

The UPA massacred at least 26 Poles, including entire families.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

26

min. 26

max. 26

ref. no:

06915

date:

1944.04

site

description

general info

Wełdzirz

At the end of April, 8 Poles were murdered.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 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:

09166

date:

1944

site

description

general info

Wełdzirz

At the beginning of 1944, Ukrainian policemen arrested a 20‑year‑old Pole who was shot by the Gestapo in a prison in Dolina. Rudolf Szefernaker, an employee of the Agricultural Tools Factory, also died in this village. Ukrainian collaborators put his head under a jackhammer. It was listed as an accident at work.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

2

min. 2

max. 2

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EXPLANATIONs

  1. 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.
  2. The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
  3. English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
  4. Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
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  6. Assumptions as to the number of victims ⇒ click HERE.