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
Żelechów Wielki
Kamionka Strumiłowa pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Velykosilky
Kamianka-Buzka rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
21
max.:
23
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04689
date:
1944.01.22–1944.01.23
site
description
general info
Żelechów Wielki
Skawiński Jerzy, 60, forester, living in Żelechów Wielki, county Kamionka Str. Was kidnapped by unknown perpetrators together with his family consisting of: wife, daughter and mother, wife on 22 / 23.I.1944. The body has not yet been found. The house mentioned above was burnt down.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, January 31 - List of Poles murdered or kidnapped in January 1944 and a description of the attack on the forester's lodge in Maziarnia Gogołowa”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 5
Also: In the village of Żelechów county Kamionka Strumiłowa: „Many attacks took place on the night of January 27–28, 1944. to the raid on the forester's lodge in Żelechów, district Kamionka Strumiłowa, where the forest engineer Skawiński, his wife and daughter were kidnapped to the forest. «The reason was to be revenge for the destruction of Ukrainian property and for handing over the wood in exchange of official receipts, despite the warnings of Ukrainians». at the same time, the local dairy was smashed, taking 320 kg of butter”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Motyka Grzegorz, „Ukrainian guerrilla 1942-1960”, in: Warsaw 2006, p. 54
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05454
date:
1944.01.27–1944.03.02
site
description
general info
Żelechów Wielki
In the local area of Pol. K. O. during the period from January 27 to the present day, the [Ukrainians] murdered the following people of Polish nationality […] county Kamionka Strumiłowa: in the village of Żelechów Wielki, a forester, his wife, daughter and mother were murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, March 2 - Special report of the PolKO in Kamionka Strumiłowa for the RGO in Krakow concerning the mass murders of the Polish population by Ukrainians. Kamionka Strumiłowa on March 2, 1944”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 44385
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
06984
date:
1944.05.04
site
description
general info
Żelechów Wielki
May 4, 1944 3 people, Poles NN, were murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; 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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
07729
date:
1944.07
site
description
general info
Żelechów Wielki
At the turn of June and July 1944: „Last week, Regieńcuka Paweł, 76, with his wife of 60 and d/o 25, was murdered. The Ukrainians are killing incoming Poles. Currently, there are still 10–15 Poles from Poland. The main executor of the murders of Hrycyna Andrzej, a local gamekeeper, his deputy Sawczan Iwan, a spiritual activist, parish priest Kowalski”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, July 4 - RGO Lwów note on the murders of Poles from the Kamionka Strumiłowa area by Ukrainians”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 13
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
08621
date:
1944.12.10
site
description
general info
Żelechów Wielki
The militants from the SB‑OUN kidnapped a four–person Polish family of a forester with two children, which went missing without a trace, they robbed and burned the forester's lodge. Others: husband, wife, daughter and mother of the wife died.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; 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
It was established from a few murdered people that they were a forester with his wife and two children.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
My mother Katarzyna (1920) told me about the murders of Poles in Żelechów Mały and Żelechów Wielki in the Tarnopol Province in 1943/45, she does not remember exactly the names and surnames of all the murdered, but what she remembers – she asked me to write it somewhere. ŻELECHÓW WIELKI area Kamionka Str. Name: Kanas XXX –3 persons; Regieńczuk XXX – 3 people; FORESTRYÓWKA near the forest XXX – 3 people; Hawrylak Paweł; Józef Łubińska.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Cymbalista Katarzyna, 09/11/2015; in: portal: stankiewicze.com — web page: www.stankiewicze.com [accessible: 2016.05.17]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10 – 12
min. 10
max. 12
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