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.:
20
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00865
date:
1943.05.20
site
description
general info
Witkowce
In one of the notebooks, Fr Tadeusz Chrobak writes down: Murdered on May 20, 1943 in Witkowce near Kołodno: 1.Berbeć Piotr, 2.Błaszczyszyn Marcin, 3. Borcz Władysław, 4. Kazimirów Marcin + 12.VI.1943.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – May 1943, Spring 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kopańska-Konon Iwona, E-mail, archives of Stanisław Żurek
Perhaps the date „20.V.1943” is written by mistake and it is the date „20.IV.1943”. W. and E. Siemaszko on p. 438 say about the village of Witkowce: „During the Holy Week (april 19–23) 1943, during the night, the UPA took three men with unremembered names from their houses: the coachman, count. Grocholski from Kołodno; scout activist; and «an exemplary» Catholic. Behind the village, they tied them by the legs to a horse cart and dragged them to the cemetery in Kołodnie, i.e. about 4 km”. They do not mention the murder of Marcin Kazimir. In turn, on p. 434 they write that in the cemetery the victims had their heads chopped off and buried in a pit. Then they write on the same page about the villages of Kołodno Lisowszczyzna and Kołodno Siedlisko: „in May 1943, also at night, were abducted from their home and massacred: Władysław Barszcz, 50; Piotr Berbeć, years 20; Marcin Ciura, 28 years old; and the commander of the Riflemen's association with an unremembered name. Their bodies were found at the cemetery in Kołodno”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – May 1943, Spring 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4 – 7
min. 4
max. 7
ref. no:
01083
date:
1943.06.12
site
description
general info
Witkowce
(in the vicinity)
In one of the notebooks, Fr Tadeusz Chrobak writes down: Murdered on May 20, 1943 in Witkowce near Kołodno: 1.Berbeć Piotr, 2.Błaszczyszyn Marcin, 3. Borcz Władysław, 4. Kazimirów Marcin + 12.VI.1943.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kopańska-Konon Iwona, E-mail, archives of Stanisław Żurek
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
01967
date:
1943.07.21
site
description
general info
Witkowce
On 21.VII (Wednesday) 1943. The bandits in Witkowce were killed by the following old Poles who could not escape: 1. Liskiewiczowa Anna: 71 years old 2. Liśkiewicza Adam: 48 years old (handicapped) 3. Szynkaruk Marcin (80 years old) 4. Ciura Marcelina (85 years old) 5. Murza Franciszek (80 years old) 6.?
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Biernat Andrzej, based on the notebooks of Father Tadeusz Chrobak - fragments selected by Iwona Kopańska-Konon
Siemaszko et Siemaszko […] write about the village of Witkowce: „During the Holy Week (April 19 – 23) 1943, during the night, the UPA took three men with unremembered names from their houses: a coachman, count. Grocholski from Kołodno; scout activist; and «of an exemplary» Catholic. Behind the village, they tied them by their legs to a horse cart and dragged them to the cemetery in Kołodnie, i.e. about 4 km”. They do not record the murder of the above–mentioned people.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 438
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
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