Szlązaki
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 26 ″ N , 24 ° 38 ′ 28 ″ E
Szlązaki (also Ślązaki , Ukrainian Шльонзаки Schljonsaky ) is a former Polish settlement in western Ukraine . It was located about 10 kilometers north of the city of Busk , in the Busk district of Lviv Oblast .
The village or hamlet, the place name of which referred to people from Silesia ( Silesians ), originally belonged to the Bełz Voivodeship in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania . During the first partition of Poland in 1772, the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire came into being (from 1804). From 1867 it belonged to the Grabowa municipality (3.5 km to the northwest) in the Kamionka Strumiłowa district . Until 1918 the Roman Catholics belonged to the parish in Busko, then to the parish in Adamy (3.5 km to the east).
After the end of the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919, the municipality came to Poland , Tarnopol Voivodeship . During the Second World War , the place belonged first to the Soviet Union , from 1941 to the district of Galicia in the Generalgouvernement . At that time there were 34 houses in the village with around 200 inhabitants. On April 4, 1944, a Ukrainian warned the local Poles that the Ukrainian nationalists wanted to kill them. On the same day Poles were killed in Adamy. According to the Polish survivors, Szlązaki was burned by UPA on April 7th . Ukrainian sources claimed that the village was burned by the Wehrmacht on April 19, 1944 because of the Polish bandits. Similarly, the neighboring villages such as Adamy, Warchoły ( Вархоли Warcholy ), Dąbrowa ( Дуброва Dubrowa ), Sobaszki ( Собашки Sobaschky ) perished.
Web links
- Szlązaki . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 11 : Sochaczew – Szlubowska Wola . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1890, p. 958 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bronisław Surma: Tragiczny los rodziny Cembrowskich we wspomnieniu Bronisława Surmy (Polish)
- ↑ Kazimierz Podanowski: Relacja z napadu Ukraińców na Ślązaki (Polish)
- ↑ оєнна округа УПА “Буг” Документи і матеріали 1943–1952 , p. 289 (Ukrainian)