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
Weleśniów
Buczacz pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Velesniv
Monastyryska rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
46
max.:
46
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09419
date:
1945.02.16
site
description
general info
Weleśniów
The UPA dressed in NKVD uniforms, under the pretext of registering for the army, gathered 46 Poles, locked them in a wooden shed, poured kerosene and set fire to them, all burned alive, and a group of several dozen Ukrainian youth gathered nearby danced for joy, when a desperate scream and groan came from the shed, they called for Ukrainian: „Pray fervently to your God, maybe a miracle will happen and you will be alive”.
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:
46
min. 46
max. 46
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