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
Brzeżawa
Dobromil pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
41
max.:
56
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
8
max.:
8
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09363
date:
1945.02.06
site
description
general info
Brzeżawa
The UPA murdered 3 Poles: one was hanged on a tree near his farm, two were kidnapped and murdered in the forest.
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
09439
date:
1945.02.21
site
description
general info
Brzeżawa
The UPA murdered the couple Maria and Franciszek Grodecki.
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11737
date:
1945.02.21
site
description
general info
Brzeżawa
Fragment of a field report by an OUN clerk on the murder of Ukrainians in Brzeżawa by MO members from Borownica and Bircza […] :
„On February 21, 1945, 25 people from Borownica Polish police attacked the village of Brzeżawa, killing 4 people”.
source: „Wisti z terenu”, b.d.; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 2, sh. 287
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:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
09446
date:
1945.02.23
site
description
general info
The next day, the UPA retaliated and killed seventeen people in Borownica, Jawornik, Dobrzanka, Tarnawka, and Brzezawa.
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]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
17
min. 17
max. 17
ref. no:
11738
date:
1945.02.28
site
description
general info
Brzeżawa
Fragment of a field report by an OUN clerk on the murder of […] Ukrainians in Brzeżawa by MO members from Borownica and Bircza: […]
„On February 29, 1945 [sic!, GTKRK] Polish militia from Borownica and Bircza came to Brzeżawa. In the hamlet of Wola they killed 4 Ukrainians, injured one, and burned down 2 houses”.
source: „Wisti z terenu”, b.d.; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 2, sh. 287
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:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
10119
date:
1945.05–1945.06
site
description
general info
Brzeżawa
Poles – 18 people died at the hands of the Ukrainians.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
13
min. 13
max. 13
ref. no:
09934
date:
1945.05.10
site
description
general info
Brzeżawa
The UPA burned most of the Polish farms and murdered 18 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
18
min. 18
max. 18
ref. no:
10206
date:
1945.07
site
description
general info
Brzeżawa
The UPA kidnapped Mikołaj Grodecki, who was missing.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10277
date:
1945.09.08–1945.09.09
site
description
general info
On the night of 8/9/09/1945, a group of Ukrainian nationalists murdered Jan Mielnik, the mayor of the village of Malawa, and the mayor of the village of Brzeżawa. After the murder, windows in houses abandoned by Poles were broken. Both murdered village leaders were of Ukrainian nationality.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „The horror at Bircza. How the Banderites attepted to expel Poles from Poland in July 1945”; in: Association for the Commemoration of the Victims of the Crimes of Ukrainian Nationalists in Wrocław — web page: suozun.org [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
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