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
Basznia Dolna
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
18
max.:
18
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
51
max.:
159
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11701
date:
1944–1945
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
Excerpt from the memoirs of Ivan Andrijowycz Załuski, born in in 1917 in Tymce about the murders of Ukrainians from Basznia Dolna by members of various armed formations of the Republic of Poland:
„At the end of World War II only from the village of Basznia Dolna, 18 people died: 13 were shot, 2 were buried alive, 1 was convicted to the death penalty, 5 were murdered by Poles in various ways. Here is the terrifying bloody summary for the parish: 10 people died in Basznia Górna, 18 people in Basznia Dolna, 70 in Borowa Góra, which together gives 122 victims”.
source: Załuśkyj I. A., „Peresełennia do URSR z parafii Basznia Dolisznia”; in: „Lubachivshchyna Our Land”, in: No. 2, Lviv 2001, p. 71
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:
18
min. 18
max. 18
ref. no:
04785
date:
1944.01
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
The Ukrainians murdered 6 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
06499
date:
1944.04.19
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
The UPA thugs robbed the presbytery and murdered 5 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
Myrosław Onyszkewycz „Orest Karat” gave the order: „I order you to purge your area immediately from the Polish element and Ukrainian–Bolshevik agents. The purge should be carried out in riverside hostels sparsely populated by Poles. To this end, create a militia near the area, composed of our members, whose task would be to eliminate the above–mentioned. Our larger hostels will be cleared of this element by our military units even in broad daylight […] The clearing of the area must be completed before our Easter so that we can celebrate it without Poles. Remember that when the Bolsheviks find us with Poles in our territory, they will slaughter us all […] Make a hard, ruthless fight with them. Not to spare anyone, even in mixed marriages. To take Lachs out of their houses, but The Ukrainians and children in these houses should not be liquidated […] Get the gun. Death to the Poles. Stop, April 6, 1944. Glory to the heroes! Orest, Karat” This order is in the files of the investigation against Myroslav Onyshhevych.
source: Miszko Przemysław, Matkowski Krzysztof, „Crimes of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Eastern Lesser Poland in 1939—1945 against persons of Polish nationality - in the light of investigations by OKŚZPNP in Wrocław”; in: „Crimes of the past, studies and materials of IPN prosecutors”, in: Warszawa 2008, vol. 2 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
06559
date:
1944.04.25
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
73‑year‑old Seweryn Divorce was murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
07188
date:
1944.05
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
The UPA murdered 3 Poles, including 2 sisters, aged 17 and 25, who were murdered by a Ukrainian woman named Wołk (Wilk), the d/o the headmaster of a school from Czerwinek.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
09593
date:
1945.03.27–1945.03.28
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
Kureń „Zalizniaka” liquidated 18 posts of the Civic Militia, 30 militiamen were killed and 10 were abducted and murdered. From 43 to 72 people of the Polish civilian population were murdered. These were posts in the following towns: Dzików Stary, Podemszczyzna, Horyniec, Zalesie, Basznia Dolna, Łówcza, Futory, Nowa Grobla, Brusno Nowe, Krowica, Puchacze, Chotylub, Wólka Horyniecka, Zapałów, Bichale, Łaszki, Płazów, and Cewków.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
83 – 112
min. 83
max. 112
ref. no:
09788
date:
1945.04.17
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
The Ukrainians murdered the policeman Stanisław Pierzyk, 36 years old.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10020
date:
1945.05
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
[The Ukrainians] burned down more than half of the village, destroyed the interior of the church and murdered 11 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
11
min. 11
max. 11
ref. no:
09928
date:
1945.05.09
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
The UPA murdered 3 Poles, including 2 sisters, Katarzyna Czerwonka, 17 and Maria Czerwonka, 25, who were murdered by a Ukrainian, part of the „gang of” insurgents, named Wołk (Wilk), d/o the headmaster of a school from Czerwinek.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
10922
date:
1946.03.26
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
In the village of Basznia Dolna — Czerwinki [a hamlet, GTKRK] — poviat Lubaczów on March 26, 1946, [the Ukrainians] killed 3 soldiers of the Polish Army from 9 IR of 3 Infantry Division: private Jan Niemczycki, age of 23, private Adam Juchniewicz, age of 25, private Bolesław Runiewicz, age of 26.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
11055
date:
1946.06.01
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
In the village of Basznia Dolna — Kapliszcze [prob. near a railway ramp of that name, GTKRK] — poviat Lubaczów, on June 1, 1946, the UPA killed 12 Polish Army soldiers with unknown surnames who were ambushed.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
12
min. 12
max. 12
ref. no:
11268
date:
1946.09.21
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
On September 21, 1946 [the UPA] murdered Jan Szmaraga.
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11363
date:
1946.12.26
site
description
general info
Basznia Dolna
The UPA murdered a 22‑year‑old policeman Michał Kowalski.
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1946 and in 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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