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
Zalesie
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Zalesie
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
30
max.:
147
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09135
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Zalesie
The UPA murdered 2 Poles, including a woman.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 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:
05873
date:
1944.03.31
site
description
general info
Zalesie
[The Ukrainians] abducted and murdered 34‑year‑old Stanisław Kordas. His body was found on April 3 in a well in a forester's lodge near Sucha Wola.
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:
07292
date:
1944.06.04
site
description
general info
The Ukrainians murdered a 23‑year‑old Pole.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09716
date:
1944.06.12–1945.04.05
site
description
general info
Zalesie
In the period from June 12, 1944 to April 5, 1945, they murdered Maria Czaj, born in 1890, Stanisława Wojtowicz b. 1920, Anna Lichacz b. 1881.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
09593
date:
1945.03.27–1945.03.28
site
description
general info
Zalesie
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
Kureń „Zalizniaka” liquidated 18 posts of the Civic Militia, 30 militiamen were killed and 10 were abducted and murdered. From 43 to 72 people of the Polish civilian population were murdered. These were posts in the following towns: Dzików Stary, Podemszczyzna, Horyniec, Zalesie, Basznia Dolna, Łówcza, Futory, Nowa Grobla, Brusno Nowe, Krowica, Puchacze, Chotylub, Wólka Horyniecka, Zapałów, Bichale, Łaszki, Płazów, and Cewków.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
83 – 112
min. 83
max. 112
ref. no:
09597
date:
1945.03.27–1945.03.28
site
description
general info
Zalesie
The Ukrainians murdered 6 Poles, while 2 Polish women died of confusion of senses, seeing the cruelty of their torturers. Others: In the village of Zalesie, on the night of March 27–28, 1945, the following were murdered by: Franciszek Bisa, born in 1888, Katarzyna Bis b. 1880, Marcin Stec b. 1909, Józefa Kornafela s. Marcin born 1906, Franciszka Okojew, 42, Teodora Skiba, 48. Moreover, Maria Kordas, 60, suffered a nervous shock during the attack and died on June 1, 1945 in the hospital.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
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:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
09768
date:
1945.04.13
site
description
general info
Zalesie
The Ukrainians murdered 1 Pole.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; 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:
11502
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Zalesie
[The UPA] murdered a dozen or so unknown peasants.
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]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1946 and in 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
a dozen or so
min. 11
max. 19
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EXPLANATIONs
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- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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