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.:
178
max.:
403
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
05611
date:
1944.03.12
site
description
general info
[The Ukrainians] murdered about 50 Polish families and „a local priest, after cutting off the arms and legs, was burned”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. Sowa Andrzej Leon, „Polish-Ukrainian relations 1939-1947”; in: Society of History Supporters, in: Krakow 1998, p. 235
source: „Bulletin”, in: No. 17, 27.IV.1944
[The Ukrainians] murdered 50 Polish families, about 300 Poles (Sowa., P. 235 states that it concerns the villages of Sierniginów and Zulin near Stryj: „of a local priest,” was burned after cutting off the arms and legs, he also gives further information on the murders of Poles: 40 Polish families, Zawoja near Sokal — 26 Poles, Kałusz — 230 Poles, Sielce near Żółkiew — 150 Polish families).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. Sowa Andrzej Leon, „Polish-Ukrainian relations 1939-1947”; in: Society of History Supporters, in: Krakow 1998, p. 235
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
50 families
min. 300
max. 300
ref. no:
06282
date:
1944.04.05–1944.04.06
site
description
general info
Żulin
[The Ukrainians] murdered 13 Poles: parish priest Fr Franciszek Będkowski and 12 people from 4 families. Others: 100 Poles. „5.IV. Żulin attacked Polish inhabitants, about 100 people were killed; livestock burned”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, April - A note described in the RGO in Kraków based on information from the field. It concerns the increasing wave of murders and attacks on Poles”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 145—150
On the night of Easter Wednesday to Thursday 1944, he was brutally murdered in the presbytery by Ukrainian nationalists from the genocidal OUN'UPA organization – his arms and legs were broken and burned with the presbytery. A relative of the priest was also murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: GTKRK, „Fr Bętkowski Franiszek”; in: portal: «The White Book». Martyrology of the clergy - Poland. XX century (1914-1989), St Sigismund parish in Słomczyn — web page: www.swzygmunt.knc.pl [accessible: 2021.02.01]
In the parish of Żulin they burnt the presbytery, tortured Fr the parish priest whose ears, tongue, arms and legs were cut off, they gouged out his eyes.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Frączek Stanisław, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 592
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
25 – 100
min. 25
max. 100
ref. no:
08547
date:
1944.11
site
description
general info
Żulin
The Banderites murdered 2 Poles: a married couple.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; 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:
09341
date:
1945.01
site
description
general info
Żulin
The Banderites brutally murdered an 80‑year‑old Polish woman named Sopowicz, who was the only Pole to remain in the village at her home.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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