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
Wołków
Przemyślany pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Vovkiv
Peremyshliany rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
24
max.:
24
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04959
date:
1944.02.09
site
description
general info
Wołków
The Banderites cruelly murdered Fr Józef Kaczorowski, his 85‑year‑old mother died on the following day. „It is February 9, 1944 – in the village of Wołków, Przemyślany County, priest Józef Kaczorowski is killed by the UPA. He is brutally murdered under a church statue by a group of 20 Ukrainian nationalist militants. The priest's mother is shot in the attic and dies in the hospital after a long torment. There is a great commotion throughout the county, news of the priest's murder spread very quickly. Some witnesses know the names of”'s torturers.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Szymański Krzysztof Szymon, „Genocide or «murder with genocide marks»”; in: „Recollections of those who survived”, portal: Volhynia of our forebearers — web page: www.nawolyniu.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
On February 9, 1944, Dżuryło Bolesław, the station manager, was murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7
The Ukrainians murdered the Roman priest. cat. Kaczorowski and 2 other Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: AK, ref. No. 203 /XV/15, sh. 122
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
04985
date:
1944.02.11
site
description
general info
Wołków
UPA militants murdered another two Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 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:
06575
date:
1944.04.25–1944.04.26
site
description
general info
Wołków
[Ukrainians] robbed Polish farms and murdered over 20 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
20
min. 20
max. 20
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