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
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
17
max.:
24
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00816
date:
1943.05.12
site
description
general info
Wielka Głusza
Around May 12, 1943, the sotnya of bulrushes surrounded the colony of Wielka Hłusza, inhabited by Poles, located about 25 km north of Kamień Koszyrski. The inhabitants, 15 adults and several children, were gathered in the buildings of Pilecki and Łukaszewicz, after which, in the presence of the terrorized men, all the women were raped, and then all the women, including the children, were gouged out, their tongues were cut off, the women had their breasts, and the men had genitals, and then the buildings and the mutilated inside were burnt.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – May 1943, Spring 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Niewolański Janusz, „In search of the lost "cranes of Ibykus"”; in: „Borderlands Information Service”, in: No. 7/2013
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
15 + few
min. 17
max. 24
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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.
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