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
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
18
max.:
18
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00039
date:
1943.01
site
description
general info
Żarków
In January 1943: „I was one of the couriers. Before the second trip to Huta Pieniacka, which I made around January 20, 1943, I felt justified anxiety. The reconnaissance provided information that the Bandera followers were patrolling the roads, and contact with them could result in martyrdom. Just before my departure, I found out that a courier from Huta Pieniacka to Hucisk Brodzki fell into Żarków into the hands of Banderites and was torn apart by” horses.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – February 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Pinkiewicz Jan — web page: pinkiewicz.prv.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
04579
date:
1944.01.01
site
description
general info
Żarków
The UPAs, pretending to be Ukrainian policemen, murdered 17 Poles, including the Sikorów family of 6, under the pretext of searching for weapons.
„Kotowska Julia b. 1869, née Lobur, Michał's mother.
Kotowska Maria b. 1869, wife of Michał, d/o Maciej Łukaszewski.
Kotowska Zofia b. 1921, the d/o Michał and Maria Łukaszewska. Murdered with her parents in Żarkków on 1 January 1944.
Kotowski Michał b. 1899, s/o Wincenty, husband of Maria Łukaszewska. Murdered in Żarków on 1 January 1944,
the bodies of the murdered were burnt together with the buildings”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Świętojański Czesław, Wiśniewski Aleksander, „List of murdered in Podkamień (and its vicinity) by the UPA in 1943—1945.”; in: portal: Podkamień n. Brody, in: 10.05.2014 — web page: www.podkamien.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
On that day, among others, Kotowski Michał with his mother Julia and wife Maria, and three daughters.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 95
Well a neighbor managed to escape from the house through the window. „On January 1, 1944, the Polish Kotorski family consisting of four people was murdered in the village of Żarków – the fifth wounded child is in Brody in the” hospital.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, January 3 - Letter from PolKO in Złoczów to the RGO Delegate in Lviv regarding Ukrainian attacks on people in the area of Brody”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/2, p. 75—76
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
17
min. 17
max. 17
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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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