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
Wierzbowiec
Trembowla pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Verbivtsi
Terebovlia rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
57
max.:
63
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00056
date:
1943.01
site
description
general info
Wierzbowiec
A Ukrainian neighbor invited a Pole to the Greek Catholic holiday of Christmas and he was murdered there by a group of Banderites.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th Anniversary of the OUN-UPA genocide – January 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:
05720
date:
1944.03.19–1944.03.20
site
description
general info
Wierzbowiec
The Ukrainians murdered 56 Poles. Others: about 60 Poles (Sowa, p. 234), 62 Poles (Kubów., As above).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 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. 234
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
IPN Wrocław S 6/02 / Zi – investigation into crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists in the area of Trembowla, province. Tarnopolskie, in 1939—1945, In Wierzbowiec, on the night of March 19—20, 1944, gangs surrounded the Polish part of the village and burnt it down. and the inhabitants who did not manage to hide, including women and children, were killed by the attackers using firearms and sharp tools, while harassing the victims.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Investigation into crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists in the area of Trembowla, province. Tarnopolskie, in the years 1939—1945”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Wrocław, in: ref. No. S 6/02/Zi
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
56 – 62
min. 56
max. 62
LETTER to CUSTODIAN/ADMINISTRATOR
The authors of this study kindly ask its readers to note that any correspondence sent to the Genocidium Atrox portal — to the address given below — may be published — in verbatim or its parts, including the signature — unless it contains relevant explicite stipulations. Email address will not be published.
If you have an Email client on your communicator/computer — such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Windows Mail or Microsoft Outlook, described at Wikipedia, among others — try the link below, please:
LETTER to CUSTODIAN/ADMINISTRATOR
If however you do not run such a client or the above link is not active please send an email to the Custodian/Administrator using your account — in your customary email/correspondence engine — at the following address:
stating the following as the subject:
GENOCIDIUM ATROX: WIERZBOWIEC
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.
- Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
- General explanations ⇒ click HERE.
- Assumptions as to the number of victims ⇒ click HERE.