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
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
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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