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
Wetlina
Lesko pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lesko cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
36
max.:
41
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
08092
date:
1944.09
site
description
general info
Wetlina
In the vicinity of the village, the UPA murdered several Polish families; ie about 20 Poles. In her book Ognie nad Solina (Warsaw 1981), Maja Bilska writes: „just a few days after the liberation, the news spread that several Polish” families had been murdered near Wetlina.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Bilska Maja, „Fires over Solinka”, in: Warsaw 1981
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
20
min. 20
max. 20
ref. no:
09221
date:
1945.01.05
site
description
general info
Wetlina
Gamekeeper Ivan Kimak was abducted and murdered by the UPA in the forest.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 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:
09553
date:
1945.03.21
site
description
general info
Wetlina
During the UPA fight with the Soviet unit, 2 Poles and 10 Ukrainians, inhabitants of the village, died.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
12
min. 12
max. 12
ref. no:
09703
date:
1945.04.02
site
description
general info
Wetlina
In the forest inspectorate, Jan Sarnecki, a forester with his family, was murdered by the UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11054
date:
1946.03–1946.06
(spring)
site
description
general info
Wetlina
In the village of Wetlina, poviat Lesko, [the Ukrainians] murdered one Pole, the wife of a Ukrainian, and their son.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11232
date:
1946.08.26
site
description
general info
On the road from the village of Wetlina to the village of Ustrzyki Górne, Lesko county, the UPA attacked the Polish Army unit of 34th Infantry Regiment, killing 5 soldiers and injured 16.
source: Prus Edward, „Operation "Vistula"”, in: ed. IV, Wroclaw 2006, p. 286
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
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EXPLANATIONs
- 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.
- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
- English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
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