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 Żmijowska
Jaworów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
43
max.:
43
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11167
date:
1943.01–1946.01.31
site
description
general info
Wólka Żmijowska
In the village of Wólka Żmijowska, poviat Jaworów, in the period between 1943 and January 31, 1946, [the Ukrainians] murdered Teodor Lesiak b. 1892, Michał Piątkowski b. 1925, Jan Piątkowski b. 1876, Michał Semczuk b. 1912, Wojciech Stopyra b. 1876.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1946”; in: „Borderlands Information Service” — web page: ksi.btx.pl [accessible: 2021.06.18]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
05737
date:
1944.03.21
site
description
general info
Wólka Żmijowska
The Ukrainians murdered 10 Poles: 3 men, 4 women and 3 children.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
06205
date:
1944.03.31–1944.04.01
site
description
general info
Wólka Żmijowska
The Ukrainians murdered 24 Poles, including entire families.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 355
Our delegation in Jaworów informs us that from March 31 to April 1, in the village of Wólka Żmijowska [Jaworów], bandits kidnapped Pokraków, Lorenców, Mazepów and Semczuk families. In total, 24 people were murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, April 14 - PolKO Lwów-poviat letter to the RGO Delegate in Lviv on the murders and abductions of Poles in the area of Jaworów and Lubaczów”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 253
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
24
min. 24
max. 24
ref. no:
05875
date:
1944.03.31
site
description
general info
Wólka Żmijowska
Forest worker Piątkowski was murdered by the UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; 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:
07444
date:
1944.06.24
site
description
general info
Wólka Żmijowska
[The Ukrainians] shot 2 Poles mowing grass in the meadows.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
07777
date:
1944.08.15
site
description
general info
Wólka Żmijowska
The Ukrainians murdered Stanisław Stawarski, 34.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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