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
Brusno Stare
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Stare Brusno
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
general info
locality abandoned
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
18
max.:
19
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
17
max.:
20
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07945
date:
1944.09.05
site
description
general info
Brusno Stare
The UPA murdered Antoni Mazurkiewicz and 2 Silesians, refugees from the Wehrmacht.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 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:
11736
date:
1945.03.02
alternatively:
02.03.1946
site
description
general info
Brusno Stare
May (?) 1946, [typescript] — Fragment of a report by Mykhail Borys 'Żan', a political clerk of the II region in the Zakerzońskie District II, about the murders of Ukrainians in Bruśno Stary […] :
„March 2, 1945. WP (assault) and MO from Horyniec and Brusno Nowe in the amount of about 200 people carried out a terrorist action in the countryside. During the action, men were murdered on the spot with shots, women and children were tortured and robbed of everything that fell — especially Polish civilians from nearby villages, following the army to rob the population.
Among the murdered were:
Wełyczkowski Iwan — 31;
Wełyczkowski Wasyl — 12;
Has Stepan — 16;
Hrabeć Mykoła — 35;
Dudiak Iwan — 20;
Kuznewycz Iwan — 33;
Mychajlo — 41;
Chmil Wasyl — 31;
Chmil Hryhiorij — 32 […]
Total: 1 woman was murdered (by the Polish Army), 1 child under 12 (by the Polish Army and MO), 15 men (3 by the Bolsheviks, 1 by the MO, 11 by the Polish Army and MO)”.
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:
17
min. 17
max. 17
ref. no:
11735
date:
1945.09.20
site
description
general info
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:
10472
date:
1945.12.04
site
description
general info
Brusno Stare
Fifteen Polish Army soldiers were killed in a UPA ambush.
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:
11240
date:
1946.06–1946.09
(summer)
site
description
general info
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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EXPLANATIONs
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- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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