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
Żniatyn
Sokal pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Hrubieszów cou., Lublin voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
3
max.:
3
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
144
max.:
144
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12582
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
Żniatyn
Fragment of Marija Łucaś's memoirs about the murder of a Ukrainian by the Polish authorities in Żniatyn:
„The next thing was that Poles were raiding every two weeks, and Russians every month. Poles murdered and Russians took away. Poles killed Mykhailo Andrusewycz on the way”.
source: „Spohad Mariji Łucaś (diwocze prizwyszcze Kysil) narodżenji 1928 roku w Żniatyni Sokalśkogo powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 197
source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
ref. no:
06187
date:
1944.03
site
description
general info
Żniatyn
During the night, they burned down Polish farms, church and presbytery, and murdered 72 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
72
min. 72
max. 72
ref. no:
05714
date:
1944.03.19
site
description
general info
Żniatyn
The UPA murdered 72 Poles, burned down the church, presbytery and most of the Polish farms.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Lublin, in: ref. No. S 114/11/Zi
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
72
min. 72
max. 72
ref. no:
12581
date:
1946.05.27
site
description
general info
Żniatyn
Excerpt from a Polish Army terror report in the village of Żniatyn prepared by 'Czumak', an employee of the SB‑OUN from the V District II of the Zakerzonya Region in the village of Żniatyn, as a result of which the soldiers murdered 2 Ukrainians and led one to suicide:
„After three days, that is on May 27, 1946, [Polish Army] is coming again to repeat the deportation […] During the deportation, they organized manhunts in the fields near Żniatyn and in the forest […] Here they could boast of some successes. It happened that they found hiding places dug by people in the fields, to have a place to hide during the deportation. There were 4 men in one. The hiding place was found, one of them, Pylypczuk Iwan, shot himself with a pistol, and three others were suffocated by the smoke of bursting grenades that were thrown into the hideout by Polish Army soldiers. After long attempts to save, two were rescued (they were saved by the Poles themselves). They did not manage to save Kysil Mykhailo, 22 […] In addition, they killed Bihera Stepan, about 25, during the deportation”.
source: „Akt cz. 4 z polśkoho teroru w seli Żniatyni”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 2, sh. 279
source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
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EXPLANATIONs
- Lack of info about the perpetrators in the description of a given event (Incident) indicates that the blame should be attributed to the perpetrators listed in general info section.
- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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