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
Bereska
Lesko pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Berezka
Lesko cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
9
max.:
10
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07659
date:
1944.07.30
site
description
general info
Bereska
The Banderites murdered 3 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Konieczny Zdzisław, „Polish-Ukrainian relations in what is now Poland in the years 1918-1947, Wrocław 2006”, in: , p. 225
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
09366
date:
1945.02.07
site
description
general info
Bereska
A policeman, Aleksander Weight, was killed in the fight against the UPA. 1922.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1945”; 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:
09577
date:
1945.03.26
site
description
general info
Bereska
The Banderites kidnapped the s/o the property owner, who went missing without a trace, and the SB‑OUN hanged a Ukrainian, Ivan Hryckovian, who intervened in his case.
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
10192
date:
1945.07.30
site
description
general info
Bereska
The UPA massacred 3 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 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:
11019
date:
1946.05.18
site
description
general info
Bereska
In the village of Berezka, poviat Lesko: „Sub–unit of U–3 UPA sotnya attacked the soldiers carrying out the operation in Berezka. A military car was destroyed, perhaps one of the soldiers died”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: Jarosław Syrnyk, „Bieszczady Triangle. Thousand days and thousand nights of anarchy in Lesko poviat 1944-1947.”, in: ed. Libra PL Sp. z o.o., Rzeszów 2018, p. 324
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
0—1
max. 1
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