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
Bircza Stara
Dobromil pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
32
max.:
32
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
1
max.:
1
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
10669
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Bircza Stara
The UPAs robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered 15 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
15
min. 15
max. 15
ref. no:
10249
date:
1945.07–1945.08
site
description
general info
Bircza Stara
On the way, while returning from the church in Bircza, the UPA kidnapped 2 Poles; siblings, 24‑year‑old Piotr Chrobak and his younger sister Anna Chrobak – and they disappeared.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 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:
10252
date:
1945.08
site
description
general info
Bircza Stara
Michał Chrobak, b. January 10, 1909, was abducted by the Bandera followers into the forest, and was lost without a trace.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 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:
10423
date:
1945.11.10
site
description
general info
Bircza Stara
sotnya „Bira” robbed Polish houses forcing Poles to flee, the number of victims, including the second attack on November 29, was 12 people.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
12
min. 12
max. 12
ref. no:
10448
date:
1945.11.29
site
description
general info
Bircza Stara
During the second attack, they murdered two Poles, including 35‑year‑old Katarzyna Kulon, they hung on the wall of the barn, and threw her body into a well, from where it was excavated in the spring of 1948.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 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:
12373
date:
1946.01.08
site
description
general info
Bircza Stara
Excerpt from the situational report of Petr Kawuza 'Taras', the political clerk of the OUN 'Chłodny Jar' district, on the murder of Ukrainians in Dobrzanka by bandits and soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces:
„On January 8, 1946, a group of Polish civilians with the Polish Army, 50 people, arrived in the village of Dobrzanka. A gang fired machine guns at the entrance. Frightened people started to run into the forest. The Poles opened fire on the fleeing people, injuring Volodymyr Ilkiv, 52, Wasyl Patir, 59. They took both wounded to Bircza […] Wołodymyr Ilkiv was shot in Stara Bircza by a Polish policeman from Leszczawa Dolna, Józef Skrzyńkowski”.
source: „Wisti z terenu [za styczeń 1946]”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 451, 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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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