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
Zawały
Starachowice-Wierzbnik (Iłża) pov., Kielce voiv.
contemporary
Lipsko cou., Masovia voiv., Poland
general info
location unknown
Murders
Perpetrators:
Germans and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
51
max.:
51
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
03430
date:
1943.10.16–1943.10.17
site
description
general info
Zawały
It was then that I thought of a Ukrainian unit, dressed in Polish uniforms, that stopped in Zawały and after a few days of hospitality, after investigating the local population, it burned and murdered them.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Heda-Szary Antoni, „Recollections of "Gray"”, in: Warsaw 2009, p. 164
October 17, 1943, the stigma of the bestiality of Nazi torturers and human degeneration, stuck firmly in the hearts and memories of the inhabitants of the villages of Zawała and Moldavia. It was on this very day that a tragedy involving German gendarmes took place here. God of spirit, the guilty inhabitants of the settlement were caught and locked in a barn near the forest, which the Nazis fired with pistols, then threw grenades and set fire to them. Almost the entire village was killed. The Germans did not spare anyone, not even the little children. 51 people were killed, including 14 children under the age of fifteen.
People who remember this event say that a few days before the tragedy, German gendarmes disguised as Polish partisans were walking around the village, knocking on the door asking for help, a piece of bread, water or a night. Those who helped were put on the list, and when October 17 came, they had to give their lives. .
source: „70th anniversary of the victims of the Nazi murder of the inhabitants of the villages of Zawała and Moldova”; in: „Knights of Columbus” — web page: www.rycerzekolumba-starachowice.pl [accessible: 2021.03.04]
From October 16 to 17, 1943, the German military police together with the Kalmuks from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski pacified the village. As a result of the action, 51 inhabitants of the village were killed .
source: „Zawały, Masovian Voivodeship”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2021.03.05]
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
51
min. 51
max. 51
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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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