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
Zatwarnica
Lesko pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Bieszczady cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
59
max.:
98
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
08096
date:
1944.09
site
description
general info
Zatwarnica
The Ukrainians murdered 2 Polish families; ie 8 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
08374
date:
1944.11.13
site
description
general info
Zatwarnica
The Upowcy murdered 8 Poles (the Domański and Marszałek families) and 1 Ukrainian. Wikipedia states: „On August 13, 1944, a UPA unit struck the police station in Zatwarnica for the first time. On November 13, 1944, the UPA sotnya murdered eight Poles and hanged one Ukrainian accused of «betraying the Ukrainian nation». In 1946, the village was completely burnt down by the Bira sotnya”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Zatwarnica”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2021.03.05]
And: „The first UPA attack on him took place in November 1944. Stanisław Śliwa, the commandant of the police station, was killed then. Other militiamen were killed nearby. In 1974, in the area adjacent to the cemetery, a commemorative obelisk with the names of the killed policemen was erected. They were Stanisław Śliwa (s. Piotr), Stanisław Śliwa (s. Marcin), Franciszek Borgosz, Jan Maciejewski, Mieczysław Radwański and Józef Leszczyszyn. The obelisk was founded on the 30th anniversary of the founding of MO and SB. As there is an inscription on the obelisk that the above mentioned people died during the consolidation of the people's power, an order was issued in 2019 to remove the obelisk (the Decommunization Act). Probably the inscription will be changed and the obelisk and names will remain, unless the intention is, inter alia, cover–up of the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Szechyński Piotr, „Zatwarnica - history and the present ”; in: portal: Your Bieszczady — web page: www.twojebieszczady.net [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
09474
date:
1945.02.28
site
description
general info
Zatwarnica
The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1945”; 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:
09530
date:
1945.03.15–1945.03.16
site
description
general info
Zatwarnica
The Ukrainians murdered a dozen Polish families, at least 41 Poles. others: around 80 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „UPA in Bieszczady”, in: ed. II, Nortom publishing house, Wroclaw 2010, p. 65
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
41 – 80
min. 41
max. 80
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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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