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
Wólka Szczytyńska
Kamień Koszyrski pov., Polesie voiv.
contemporary
Shchytyns'ka Volya
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
19
max.:
19
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04541
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Wólka Szczytyńska
In 1943, the Bandera followers stormed the village and murdered 19 NN people, including children. One young man ran across the lake crash to the Soviet partisans – they came to the rescue immediately, caught the bandits and probably killed them and saved 10 people.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Losses of the Polish population in the former Polesie Voivodeship as a result of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in 1939-1947, preliminary data”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
19
min. 19
max. 19
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