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
Weleśnica
Nadwórna pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Nyzhnya Velesnytsya
Kolomyia rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
27
max.:
37
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00444
date:
1943.03
site
description
general info
The Ukrainians murdered 10 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Bp Urban Wincenty, „Way of the Cross of the Lviv Archdiocese in the years of World War II 1939—1945”; in: „Semper Fidelis”, in: Wroclaw 1983, p. 120
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
03864
date:
1943.12.18
site
description
general info
Weleśnica
The Ukrainians murdered Rudolf Pelc on the road.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09165
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Weleśnica
In the second half of 1944, they murdered 3 Poles, including a woman, on the road.
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
04907
date:
1944.02.03
site
description
general info
Weleśnica
On February 3, in the Nadwórniański county in Woleśnica, there was an attack on the farm, where the s/o the steward, Papst, was killed and wounded.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Situation report from the Polish lands, no. 10/44 [December 1943, January February 1944]”; in: The Polish Institute and the Gen. Sikorski in London, own resources, in: no: PRM — 122
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
06230
date:
1944.04.01–1944.04.02
site
description
general info
Weleśnica
[Ukrainians] robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered 17 Poles.
During Holy Week, the Banderites and Ukrainian peasants murdered the Polish population in the villages of: Limanowa – 46 Poles. Majdan – 10 Poles, Pasieczna – 107 Poles, Rafajłowa – 20 Poles, Weleśnica – 17 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. Sowa Andrzej Leon, „Polish-Ukrainian relations 1939-1947”; in: Society of History Supporters, in: Krakow 1998, p. 236
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
17
min. 17
max. 17
ref. no:
08311
date:
1944.10
site
description
general info
Weleśnica
Two Polish women were murdered on the way.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
08821
date:
1944.12
site
description
general info
Weleśnica
An elderly woman named Paweł was burnt alive in the building. In that village, a second woman named Maria Ondrejczuk was tied to two horses by the Bandera followers and tore her in half, and a woman named Muszyńska, who was captured in a nearby forest, was tortured by tearing out her eyes and cutting her breasts live, and then murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Maziarz Franciszek, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 359
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
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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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