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
Bełwin
Przemyśl pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
1
max.:
1
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
8
max.:
14
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07128
date:
1944.05.25
site
description
general info
Bełwin
The UPA murdered Bolesław Lorenc.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09477
date:
1945.02.27–1945.03.01
site
description
general info
Bełwin
„Five people killed three people in Bełwin. The attackers ordered the witness of this incident to announce in the village that if the Ukrainians did not go to Ukraine within three days, 200 people would come from the forest and murder the entire” village. Elsewhere: „The secretary of the Lviv regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the head of the border troops of the NKVD in the Lviv district alerted the secretary of the Central Committee of the CP (b) U about the murders of the Ukrainian population by local militiamen. [February 27] in Bełwin [killed] seven […] Although this information does not agree with the data of the Polish side, both in terms of the number of killed and the dates of events, it points out that” militiamen were named as perpetrators.
source: Pisuliński Jan, „The Polish-Ukrainian conflict in the Przemyśl poviat in winter and spring 1945 and the participation of Roman Kisiel 'Vulture' group in it” — web page: www.polska1918-89.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
1945 February 23, Kuńkowce — Report of the MO post in Kuńkowce for the County Office in Przemyśl about the murder of Ukrainians in Bełwin:
„At night on February 28, 1945, around 1‑2 o'clock 5 armed perpetrators came to the village of Bełwin, Przemyśl poviat, where they shot 3 Ukrainian guards.
Investigations were carried out by the local police station, during which by questioning the witness who was present at the shooting of the above–mentioned, he stated the following.
Witness Skrypko Miron, born in 1922 in Bełwin, son of Maksym and Katarzyna, Greek Catholic, Ukrainian, reported that on the night of February 28, 1945, around At 0.30 a few men armed with automatic machines and rifles arrived at his house. One of them entered his apartment and asked where Michał Perchacz lived and ordered him to get dressed and lead him to him. He put on his jacket and put on his boots, in his pants he went out into the yard and with everyone else he walked towards Perchacz's house. In an instant, the alarm was triggered by the chiming of the gongs. They escaped not far, because the sentry Kot began to chime the gong, and when he saw the individuals approaching him, he ran to his apartment, closing the door behind him.
The perpetrators approached the door, ordered it to be opened, when no one spoke, they forcibly began to open it. Kot spoke through the door and replied that the door would not open. At that moment, one of the perpetrators fired a burst from a machine gun at the door, then left. Kot groaned a few times and was dead.
After leaving Kot's house, they noticed that a few people ran across the road, followed by them, and when they ran behind Dypek's house, they asked who you are, Poles or Ukrainians. The answer was that the Ukrainians took them to the road and told them to lie down on the ground there. They did not want to lie down because it was very wet, they repeated once more to lie down on the ground, and when they did not obey, they were shot on the spot with rifles. They were shot:
1) Kot Seńko in his house,
2) Hawryła Piotr, and
3) Bugira Grzegorz.
After shooting those, someone fired a shot at the end of the village. The perpetrators said:
— «Let us turn back, the manhunt seems to be going».
They turned back together with the witness, because they ordered him to go on with them, show the way leading through the forest. They came to a small river through which he had to take them to the other side. One of the perpetrators wanted to shoot him, but the other said not to shoot him, but let him return to the village and tell all Ukrainians to move to Ukraine within 3 days. And if they don't, 200 men will come and shoot all of them.
It was established that there were 5 perpetrators. They were dressed in civilian clothes, except for one who was wearing a Soviet military coat. They came from Maćkowie commune side and left in this direction.
The prosecutor of Prosecutor's Office in Przemśl and militia MO county headquarters in Przemyśl were notified”.
source: State Archive in Przemyśl, in: SPP sygn. 49, sh. 39
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]
Excerpt from the report „Wisti z terenu” of April 18, 1945:
„1945, the Polish gang shot dead sentries in Bełwin who raised the alarm: Kot, Pyłyp and Bugera”.
source: „Wytiah iz Wistej z terenu pro antyukrajinśki akciji polakiw na Hrubesziwszczyni w berezni1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 860, in: orig. Ukrainian
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 – 7
min. 3
max. 7
ref. no:
09598
date:
1945.03.28
site
description
general info
Bełwin
According to the starost's report, five The Ukrainians were killed, while according to the report of the MO station in Kuńkowce, several dozen armed people were to kill seven people (including one who died of wounds) and injured three.
source: Pisuliński Jan, „The Polish-Ukrainian conflict in the Przemyśl poviat in winter and spring 1945 and the participation of Roman Kisiel 'Vulture' group in it” — web page: www.polska1918-89.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
1945 March 30, Kuńkowce — Telephone diagram of the MO post in Kuńkowce to the County Headquarters of the MO in Przemyśl about the murder of the Ukrainians in the village of Bełwin:
„On March 28, 1945 at 20:00, several dozen armed people came to the Bełwin group, they made an armed attack on the local Ukrainians. 6 men were killed and 4 injured. The injured were taken to hospital in Przemyśl. One man died on the way. In addition, they took 2 cows, 3 horses with carts, and robbed a few houses. At about 23:00, they left in the direction of Jarosław.
During the operation, a police patrol of 5 men was under fire and the patrol was forced to withdraw due to the overwhelming force. The prosecutor's office of the District Court in Przemyśl was notified of the accident, District I. The prosecutor ordered the body to be buried”.
source: State Archive in Rzeszów, in: UWRz sygn. 307, sh. 39
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]
1945 April 3, Kuńkowce — Fragment of the situation report of the Commune Board in Kuńkowce for the district office in Przemyśl for the period March 1 — March 31, 1945:
„In the Bełwin cluster, unknown perpetrators shot 6 people, namely: Bochenko Stefan, 58, Bochonko Michał 38 years old, Parchacz Stefan 32 years old, Depko Eugeniusz 13 years old, Depko Jarosław 16 years old, Zawierucha Włodzimierz 15 years old, Depko Bogdan 14 years old, wounded people Bochonko Piotr aged 68 and Bochonko Anna 55 years old, Mazgal Katarzyna years old 23”.
source: State Archive in Przemyśl, in: SPP sygn. 79, sh. 13
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:
5 – 7
min. 5
max. 7
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