Józef Chomicz was born near Huta in the farming village of Omelanka, located in Stydyń district, Kostopol County, of the Wołyń (Volhynia) region in eastern Poland (today renamed as Omelyanka, Rivne Oblast, in Ukraine). His parents (Antoni Chomicz and Michalina Libera) and his wife (Bronislawa "Bernice" Bielawska) were also from this area.
Józef married Bernice circa 1920 and they had five children, all born in Omelanka:
1921: Genowefa "Gienia"
1923: Janina "Janka"
1925: Josef "Joe"
1927: Anna Leokadia "Lodzia"
1929: Janek Janusz "Jan Jozeph"
Omelanka and neighboring villages were pillaged in 1943 by pro-German Ukrainian rebels and all houses inhabited by the Poles were burned to the ground. Residents were bludgeoned, raped and murdered, including children - only those who fled into forests survived these raids along with the Chomicz family. Local Ukrainians looted the livestock and any remaining spoils of value.
(NOTE: Today, the village of Omelanka no longer exists, except in memory. What stands there today is a remembrance copy of the original 1943 cross, placed where once a Roman Catholic church stood, with Polish inscription "Jezu ratuj nas" (Jesus Save Us). There is also a commemorative stone, inscribed in both Polish and Ukrainian languages. This location has since been renamed Omelyanka and is just southwest of Huta in Rivnens'ka Oblast of western Ukraine).
Following the destruction of their villages, the few remaining survivors were rounded-up by Nazi soldiers. In March, 1943, the Chomicz family was divided and shipped-out to various slave-labor concentration camps in Germany. Bernice and son Jan were sent to a labor farm in Walsrode, Soltau-Fallingbostel, Niedersachsen, Germany. Józef and son Joe went to a different one near there, and the daughters were shipped in boxcars to camps at Dachau, Bavaria.
On 08 Nov 1943, at Fallingbostel, in Heidekreis (Soltau-Fallingbostel), Niedersachsen, Germany - Józef suffered a hernia while working as a forced laborer on a farm near Walsrode; he died of complications the next day, following surgery in hospital at Fallingbostel.
Józef married Bernice circa 1920 and they had five children, all born in Omelanka:
1921: Genowefa "Gienia"
1923: Janina "Janka"
1925: Josef "Joe"
1927: Anna Leokadia "Lodzia"
1929: Janek Janusz "Jan Jozeph"
Omelanka and neighboring villages were pillaged in 1943 by pro-German Ukrainian rebels and all houses inhabited by the Poles were burned to the ground. Residents were bludgeoned, raped and murdered, including children - only those who fled into forests survived these raids along with the Chomicz family. Local Ukrainians looted the livestock and any remaining spoils of value.
(NOTE: Today, the village of Omelanka no longer exists, except in memory. What stands there today is a remembrance copy of the original 1943 cross, placed where once a Roman Catholic church stood, with Polish inscription "Jezu ratuj nas" (Jesus Save Us). There is also a commemorative stone, inscribed in both Polish and Ukrainian languages. This location has since been renamed Omelyanka and is just southwest of Huta in Rivnens'ka Oblast of western Ukraine).
Following the destruction of their villages, the few remaining survivors were rounded-up by Nazi soldiers. In March, 1943, the Chomicz family was divided and shipped-out to various slave-labor concentration camps in Germany. Bernice and son Jan were sent to a labor farm in Walsrode, Soltau-Fallingbostel, Niedersachsen, Germany. Józef and son Joe went to a different one near there, and the daughters were shipped in boxcars to camps at Dachau, Bavaria.
On 08 Nov 1943, at Fallingbostel, in Heidekreis (Soltau-Fallingbostel), Niedersachsen, Germany - Józef suffered a hernia while working as a forced laborer on a farm near Walsrode; he died of complications the next day, following surgery in hospital at Fallingbostel.
Józef Chomicz was born near Huta in the farming village of Omelanka, located in Stydyń district, Kostopol County, of the Wołyń (Volhynia) region in eastern Poland (today renamed as Omelyanka, Rivne Oblast, in Ukraine). His parents (Antoni Chomicz and Michalina Libera) and his wife (Bronislawa "Bernice" Bielawska) were also from this area.
Józef married Bernice circa 1920 and they had five children, all born in Omelanka:
1921: Genowefa "Gienia"
1923: Janina "Janka"
1925: Josef "Joe"
1927: Anna Leokadia "Lodzia"
1929: Janek Janusz "Jan Jozeph"
Omelanka and neighboring villages were pillaged in 1943 by pro-German Ukrainian rebels and all houses inhabited by the Poles were burned to the ground. Residents were bludgeoned, raped and murdered, including children - only those who fled into forests survived these raids along with the Chomicz family. Local Ukrainians looted the livestock and any remaining spoils of value.
(NOTE: Today, the village of Omelanka no longer exists, except in memory. What stands there today is a remembrance copy of the original 1943 cross, placed where once a Roman Catholic church stood, with Polish inscription "Jezu ratuj nas" (Jesus Save Us). There is also a commemorative stone, inscribed in both Polish and Ukrainian languages. This location has since been renamed Omelyanka and is just southwest of Huta in Rivnens'ka Oblast of western Ukraine).
Following the destruction of their villages, the few remaining survivors were rounded-up by Nazi soldiers. In March, 1943, the Chomicz family was divided and shipped-out to various slave-labor concentration camps in Germany. Bernice and son Jan were sent to a labor farm in Walsrode, Soltau-Fallingbostel, Niedersachsen, Germany. Józef and son Joe went to a different one near there, and the daughters were shipped in boxcars to camps at Dachau, Bavaria.
On 08 Nov 1943, at Fallingbostel, in Heidekreis (Soltau-Fallingbostel), Niedersachsen, Germany - Józef suffered a hernia while working as a forced laborer on a farm near Walsrode; he died of complications the next day, following surgery in hospital at Fallingbostel.
Józef married Bernice circa 1920 and they had five children, all born in Omelanka:
1921: Genowefa "Gienia"
1923: Janina "Janka"
1925: Josef "Joe"
1927: Anna Leokadia "Lodzia"
1929: Janek Janusz "Jan Jozeph"
Omelanka and neighboring villages were pillaged in 1943 by pro-German Ukrainian rebels and all houses inhabited by the Poles were burned to the ground. Residents were bludgeoned, raped and murdered, including children - only those who fled into forests survived these raids along with the Chomicz family. Local Ukrainians looted the livestock and any remaining spoils of value.
(NOTE: Today, the village of Omelanka no longer exists, except in memory. What stands there today is a remembrance copy of the original 1943 cross, placed where once a Roman Catholic church stood, with Polish inscription "Jezu ratuj nas" (Jesus Save Us). There is also a commemorative stone, inscribed in both Polish and Ukrainian languages. This location has since been renamed Omelyanka and is just southwest of Huta in Rivnens'ka Oblast of western Ukraine).
Following the destruction of their villages, the few remaining survivors were rounded-up by Nazi soldiers. In March, 1943, the Chomicz family was divided and shipped-out to various slave-labor concentration camps in Germany. Bernice and son Jan were sent to a labor farm in Walsrode, Soltau-Fallingbostel, Niedersachsen, Germany. Józef and son Joe went to a different one near there, and the daughters were shipped in boxcars to camps at Dachau, Bavaria.
On 08 Nov 1943, at Fallingbostel, in Heidekreis (Soltau-Fallingbostel), Niedersachsen, Germany - Józef suffered a hernia while working as a forced laborer on a farm near Walsrode; he died of complications the next day, following surgery in hospital at Fallingbostel.
Inscription
(Translation from Polish): "Here rests my dear husband and our dear father, Józef Chomicz. His wife and children ask for eternal peace."
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this is a cenotaph memorial - exact location of remains unknown
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