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
Zaleszczyki
Zaleszczyki pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Zalishchyky rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
61
max.:
61
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
10538
date:
1941–1945
site
description
general info
Zaleszczyki
The Ukrainians killed 20 Poles with unknown surnames.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
20
min. 20
max. 20
ref. no:
03604
date:
1943.10
site
description
general info
Zaleszczyki
The Banderites murdered about 20 Poles who were going to the city, and 10 of those returning from it were residents of the village of Kułakowce.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
30
min. 30
max. 30
ref. no:
03473
date:
1943.10.23
site
description
general info
Zaleszczyki
On October 23, 1943, Stanisław Zieliński, a tax enforcer, was murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; 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
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
03989
date:
1943.12.25
site
description
general info
Zaleszczyki
On Christmas Day, the Ukrainians kidnapped 1 Pole to the village of Tłuste Miasto and murdered him there.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; 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:
08317
date:
1944.10
site
description
general info
Zaleszczyki
In October 1944, I was in Zaleszczyki, I saw the river current carrying a door on which lay 5 dead bodies: a mother with four small children tied with barbed wire. The door caught on a protruding tree trunk and stopped at the shore. Many people went to watch this gruesome spectacle. Every day there were more similar scenes in the area […] When I was in Zaleszczyki, I saw a woman in the morgue named Bronisława from Uhrynkowce. I do not remember her name. The skin of her forehead was torn off and it was wrapped like a beret on her head. On her hands, the skin was similarly removed and stretched over her hands. It was a terrifying sight. How much the torturer had to be degenerate in order to torture a defenseless woman in this way. Can such degenerates be called UPA soldiers fighting for a free Ukraine?
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Szuszkiewicz Karolina, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 907
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
08566
date:
1944.11
site
description
general info
Zaleszczyki
According to the reports of the Polish underground, in November 1944, 315 people died in the Lviv Province of Tarnopol (Zaleszczyki – 2).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Hryciuk Grzegorz, „UPA actions against Poles after the re-occupation of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Red Army in 1944”; in: Libionka Dariusz, Motyka Grzegorz (ed.), „Anti-Polish operation of the OUN-UPA 1943-1944. Facts and interpretations”, State Archive of Lviv Oblast, in: DALO, 5001/2/32, Warsaw 2002, sh. 74
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
10320
date:
1945.09
site
description
general info
Zaleszczyki
Turzański Eugeniusz, 17, was killed.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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