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
Wołcza Dolna
Dobromil pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Nyzhnya Vovcha
Staryi Sambir rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
13
max.:
20
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
03644
date:
1943.11.09
site
description
general info
Upowcy murdered 14 Poles: 13 people from the Suchaj and Sychory families as well as the housekeepers of Sychory. Suchaj Marcin had his skull split open with a sharp instrument, his wife Ludwika had several stab wounds and knocked out teeth, son Marian had 7 stab wounds, daughter Zofia had several stab wounds, daughter Anna had a dozen stab wounds and traces of beating all over his body, son Eugeniusz was shot. Their married daughter Maria Grabowska, 25, had several stab wounds; her daughter Krystyna, 4 years old, had a broken jaw and a ripped tummy. „Murdered by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army on November 9, 1943, rest in two mass graves:
The Suchaj family from Błozwia Górna
Suchaj Marcin – organist and manager of a postal agency, b. November 6, 1889 – husband.
Suchaj Ludwika nee Chocińska b. 10/03/1895 – wife.
Maria Grabowska née Suchaj, b. 04/02/1919 – daughter.
Grabowska Krystyna b. April 13, 1940 – granddaughter.
Suchaj Marian b. 1912 – son.
Suchaj Zofia b. 1922 – daughter.
Suchaj Anna b. 1924 – daughter.
Suchaj Eugeniusz b. 1928 – son.
II Sychor Family from the manor house in Wołcza.
Sychora Tadeusz inż. farmer – husband.
Sychora Janina nee Kochanowska – wife.
Sychora Maria – daughter.
Sychora Cecylia – daughter.
Sychora Bolesław – son.
Pietraszek Cecylia from Posada Nowomiejska – housekeeper”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: web page: w.kki.com.pl [accessible: 2020.10.12]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
14
min. 14
max. 14
ref. no:
03650
date:
1943.11.09
site
description
general info
Wołcza Dolna
The Banderites murdered 6 Poles: the 5–person Sychory family with 3 children and their pregnant maid. See above: Błozew Górna, manor house in Wołcza.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
6
min. 6
max. 6
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