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GENOCIDIUM ATROX

GENOCIDE perpetrated by UKRAINIANS on POLES

Data for 1943–1947

Site

II Republic of Poland

Brusno Nowe

Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.

contemporary

Nowe Brusno

Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland

Murders

Perpetrators:

Ukrainians

Victims:

Poles

Number of victims:

min.:

179

max.:

288

Perpetrators:

Poles

Victims:

Ukrainians

Number of victims:

min.:

13

max.:

16

Location

link to GOOGLE MAPS

events (incidents)

ref. no:

03932

date:

1943.12.22

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

The Ukrainians murdered 29‑year‑old Marcin Mazurkiewicz.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; 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:

11381

date:

1944–1946

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

In the period between 1944 and 1946 [the Ukrainians] murdered: Józef Byr, b. 1880, Janina Dutkiewicz b. 1910, Walenty Drzymała b. 1880, Katarzyna Gałka b. 1890, Tadeusz Gałka, b. 1927, Jan Grys b. 1920, Władysław Gimuzda b. 1920, Antoni Herda b. 1906, Józefa Hawryliszyna b. 1905, Józef Hrycow b. 1915, Zygmunt Kolbuszewski, b. 1907, Józef Kolasa b. 1875, Ludmiła Kolasa b. 1923, Szczepan Maciąg b. 1874, Józef Maciuła b. 1925, Marian Maciuła b. 1931, Magdalena Mazurkiewicz b. 1900, Michał Mazurkiewicz, b. 1910, Rudolf Mazurkiewicz, b. 1920, Jan Sopyła b. 1917, Józef Szajdecki, b. 1921, Władysław Szczygieł b. 1925, Franciszek Tabaka b. 1912, Franciszek Ulicki b. 1906, Andrzej Wójcicki, b. 1925, Ewa Zborniak b. 1890, Bronisław Zborniak, b. 1934, Jan Zborniak b. 1876

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:

28

min. 28

max. 28

ref. no:

08902

date:

1944

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

Murdered by: Józefa Sobań b. 1906, Józefa Wojtuch b. 1906, Jan Kołodziej b. 1900, Andrzej Groszecki b. 1890, Józefa Pomagiel, 84, Jan Gliński, 86, Marcin Kopciuch, 37, Rozalia Kolasa, 40, Maria Gałka, 50, Antoni Mazurkiewicz, 47, Jurko Hawryliszyna, 42, Frank Tabaka, 30, Bronisław Wojciak, 63.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; 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:

13

min. 13

max. 13

ref. no:

06500

date:

1944.04.19

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

[Ukrainians] robbed and burned the presbytery and murdered 57 Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Węgierski Jerzy Julian, „Lviv forestry units «Warta» in the Rzeszów region 1944-1945”, in: Krakow 1998, p. 108

L. Sowa gives the number of 57 Poles, including 15 burned alive.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: prof. Sowa Andrzej Leon, „Polish-Ukrainian relations 1939-1947”; in: Society of History Supporters, in: Krakow 1998, p. 236, 261

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:

57

min. 57

max. 57

ref. no:

06523

date:

1944.04.21

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

The Bandera followers murdered Ewa Maciąg, 37, from the village of Narol.

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:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

06958

date:

1944.05.02

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

The UPA murdered 68‑year‑old Jan Motka.

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:

07747

date:

1944.08.07

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

Franciszek Muliński, 22, was murdered by the UPA from „Zaliźniak” gang.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 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:

10672

date:

1945

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

The Ukrainians murdered 24 Poles and 3 Ukrainians.

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:

27

min. 27

max. 27

ref. no:

09289

date:

1945.01.28

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

Franciszek Wargacki was severely injured, and as a result he died.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 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:

09466

date:

1945.02.27–1945.02.28

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

During the raid on a militia station, the UPA murdered 13 unknown militiamen and their cook Maria Byra.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 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:

14

min. 14

max. 14

ref. no:

09593

date:

1945.03.27–1945.03.28

site

description

general info

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:

09594

date:

1945.03.27–1945.03.28

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

During the raid on the MO station, the UPA burnt 14 Poles alive, including a 25‑year‑old woman and a policeman.

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:

14

min. 14

max. 14

ref. no:

09585

date:

1945.03.27

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

The UPA massacred 4 Poles. Others: they murdered Stanisław Szczygieł, Janusz Byrd and Maria Motka, aged 35.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 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:

4

min. 4

max. 4

ref. no:

09771

date:

1945.04.14

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

The Ukrainians murdered 4 Poles. See April 15.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

4

min. 4

max. 4

ref. no:

09776

date:

1945.04.15

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

On April 15, 1945, they murdered Andrzej Szczerbasiuk, 42, Franciszek Ulicki, 58, Tomasz Gałka, 58, Katarzyna Gałka.

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:

4

min. 4

max. 4

ref. no:

09798

date:

1945.04.18

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

The Ukrainians murdered Jan Moskva.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 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:

09838

date:

1945.04.27

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

The Ukrainians murdered Jan Moskva, 42.

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:

10250

date:

1945.07–1945.08

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

Michał Bąk was cruelly murdered in a Bruśnieński forest, abducted from a field where he wanted to gather some grain. Before his death, he was tortured, his tongue was torn out, his eyes were gouged out, his whole body was pierced. His hands were tied with barbed wire.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „Murder by Ukrainian gangs in Nowiny Horynieckie ”; in: portal: Horyniec Zdrój — web page: na.horyniec.info [accessible: 2021.04.11]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

11735

date:

1945.09.20

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

or

Brusno Stare

October 25, 1945, typescript — Fragment of the communiqué of the National Leadership of the Zakerzonya Region from August–September 1945:
On September 20, the Polish army burned 64 Ukrainian farms in the village of Stare Brusno, and 23 in the village of Nowe Brusno. At the same time, they tormented those people who did not escape, chased the girls into the river and forced them to drink water, beat them, murdered two men, and one woman suffocated”.

source: „Informacija pro polśko-ukrajinśke protystojannia na Peremyszczyni”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 892, 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

min. 3

max. 3

ref. no:

10866

date:

1946.02.22

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

In the village of Brusno Nowe, poviat Lubaczów the UPA abducted one Pole who went missing.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – February 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

11734

date:

1946.05

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

May (?) 1946, [typescript] — Fragment of a report by Mykhail Borys 'Żan', a political clerk of the II region of the Zakerzonya Region, about the murders of Ukrainians in Bruśno Nowe  […] :
Total: 13 men murdered (2 by the Bolsheviks, 7 by Polish Army WP and militia MO, 2 by WP, 1 by MO — lost while providing service driving horses)”.

source: „Informacija pro ukrajinśki seła ta jich meszkanciw, szczo postradały w rezultati polśkych napadiw”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 929, 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:

13

min. 13

max. 13

ref. no:

11240

date:

1946.06–1946.09

(summer)

site

description

general info

Brusno Nowe

or

Brusno Stare

In the forest near the village of Brusno, Lubaczów county, sotnya leader Iwan Szpontak ('Zaliźniak') personally murdered an unknown Polish resistance Home Army AK officer.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.25]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

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  1. Lack of info about the perpetrators in the description of a given event (Incident) indicates that the blame should be attributed to the perpetrators listed in general info section.
  2. The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
  3. English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
  4. Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
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  6. Assumptions as to the number of victims ⇒ click HERE.