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
Brzuska
Dobromil pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
182
max.:
200
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
14
max.:
14
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09753
date:
1945.04.11
site
description
general info
Brzuska
On the evening of the same day when Maćkowice was attacked, probably the greatest attack on The Ukrainians took place. An unidentified unit […] struck […] Brzuska […] (where, according to a witness, 182 people were supposed to have died) […] a UPA officer mentioned that he counted 187 victims in Brzuska.
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]
„The crime was committed on April 11, 1945 on the Ukrainian population of the village of Brzuska by post–Home Army AK units (presumably from the Warta Group) and BCh [Peasants’ Battalions] together with local Polish peasants.
They murdered about 180 inhabitants of Brzuska, almost a half of whom were women and children. The local Greek Catholic parish priest, Ołeksij Błyk, and his family were also murdered with axes. People who survived the pogrom were displaced to the territory of Ukraine under Russian occupation”.=
source: „The crime in Brzuska”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
1945 April 12, Przemyśl — Fragment of the notification from the head of the Bircza commune to the poviat starost in Przemyśl about the murder of Ukrainians in the village of Brzuska:
„The head of the collective commune [Bircza] reports that on April 11 this year. about 200 people of Ukrainian nationality were murdered in the Brzuska cluster. 1 A Polish woman was chopped up with an ax. A lot of cattle and horses were taken. All farms were plundered […] The whole gang withdrew towards Bachów”.
source: State Archive in Rzeszów, in: UWRz sygn. 307, sh. 39
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]
Fragment of a field report by an unknown OUN reporter about the murder of post–Home Army units against 161 Ukrainians in Brzuska:
„On April 11, 1945, the Home Army carried out a mass murdering action on the Ukrainian villages of Bachów and Brzuska. 10 April 1945 vol. At On the 23rd at night, they took the ferry from the left bank of the San river to the other bank in Babice and spent the night on the grounds. At. 4.30. in the morning they jumped to the village of Bachów […] shouting
— «We are avenging Volhynia!»,
they killed 72 people […] Then they split into three groups and went to Brzuska. 36 houses and 24 barns were burned down in Brzuska. They took 20 cows, 13 harnessed horses, and about 150 centners of grain. They killed 161 people. They killed almost all of them with arrows, only in Brzuska they threw 6 people into the fire and 9 hacked with axes. A local priest was also a victim of Polish terror. They killed the following people:
1. Jump Vasyl — 1888,
2. Jump Petronel — 1899,
3. Jump Anna — 1902
4. Worm Kateryna — 1882,
5. Worm Anna — 1911,
6. Bodnar Kateryna — 1902,
7. Bodnar Stepanija — 1940,
8. Bodnar Jarosłąw — 1945,
9. Julija Kopko — 1905,
10. Kateryna Kopko — 1926,
11. Joanna Kopko — 1929,
12. Tadej Kopko —1937
13 Volodymyr Mound — 1944,
14. Ołena Mound — 1931,
15. Adolf Assault — 1934,
16. Czubak Nestor — 1922 (disabled),
17. Filwarski Mykhailo — 1899,
18. Popowycz Marija — 1905,
19. Konowal Kateryna — 1879,
20. Duda Katereyna — 1985,
21. Czubak Marija — 1886,
22. Jump Kateryna — 1874,
23. Roman Ołeksa — 1888,
24. Roman Iwan — 1923 (mute),
25. Czubak Anna — 1891,
26. Dzwinczyk Julija — 1903,
27. Dzwinczyk Marija — 1910,
28. Derewenko Mychajło — 1893,
29. Kaczm arska Marija 1890,
30. Kaczmarska Marija — 1923,
31. Horbowy Andrij — 1884,
32. Kaczmarska Kateryna — 1905,
33. Rusnak Iwan — 1881,
34. Tymoczko Julija — 1880,
35. Szewczyk Marija — 1906,
36. Rusnak Ivan — 1923 (disabled),
37. Rusnak Kateryna — 1868,
38. Dmytriv Ivan — 1926,
39. Pavly's Bekesh — 1919,
40. Artym Roman — 1899,
41. Artym Kateryna — 1905,
42. Artym Tadej — 1930,
43. Mrudź Anna — 1881,
44. Melnyk Mykhailo — 1874,
45. Melnyk Olha — 1909,
46. Rusnak Mychajło — 1874,
47. Rusnak Kateryna — 1884,
48. Rusnak Kateryna — 1905,
49. Rusnak Iwan — 1942,
50. Rusnak Wira 1943,
51. Rusnak Iwan — 1914,
52. Fr. Biłyk Ołeksa — 1892 (parish priest),
53. Biłyk Marija — 1891 (teacher),
54. Kwaśnicki Stepan — 1931,
55. Czubak Ivan — 1900,
56. Czubak Anna — 1906,
57. Czubak Mykoła 57 — 1919 (mute),
58. Czubak Kateryna — 1874,
59. Dzwinnyk Ivan — 1898,
60. Dzwinnyk Anna — 1893,
61. Dzwinnyk Lubow — 1925 (member of the OUN),
62. Dzwinnyk Nadija — 1930 [as above] ,
63. Dzwinnyk Dmytro — 1985,
64. Dzwinnyk Julija — 1906,
65. Dzwinnyk Myron — 1939,
66. Dzwinnyk Marijan — 1939,
67. Dzwinnyk Iwan — 1898,
68. Dzwinnyk Marija — 1901,
69. Dzwinnyk Marija — 1928,
70. Bodnar Anna — 1913,
71. Horbowy Vasyl — 1874,
72. Kapustinska Anna — 1900,
73. Kapustinian Ivan — 1926,
74. Kapustinian Theodora — 1890,
75. Kocko Petro — 1880,
76. Birczak Oleksa — 1906,
77. Birczak Anna — 1903.
78. Birczak Kateryna — 1936,
79. Birczak Iwanna — 1940,
80. Horbowy Mykoła — 1882,
81. Sawka Marija — 1878,
82. Sawka Kateryna — 1910,
83. Sawka Roman — 1941,
84. Kozubski Stepan — 1902,
85. Kozubska Kateryna — 1899,
86. Kozubska Anna — 1929
87. Kozubska Kateryna — 1874,
88. Kozubska Marija — 1919,
89. Ball Dmytro — 1879,
90. Ball Kateryna — 1882,
91. Dorotiak Marija — 1905,
92 — PiszczynD_ 92 — 1905 ,
93. Piszczacyn Anna — 1929,
94. Piszczacyn Łeontyna — 1931,
95. Piszczacyn Marija — 1943,
96. Piszczacyn Volodymyr — 1927,
97. Piszczacyn Kateryna — 1877,
98. Piszczacyn Ksenija — 1919,
99. Czmil Iwan — 1883,
100. Trybała Paraskewija — 1886,
101. Trybała Kateryna — 1915,
102. Seneczko Ilko — 1874,
103. Seneczko Tekla — 1874,
104. Yevstakhya tribe — 1836,
104. Worobec Sofija — 1868,
106. Duda Anna — 1906,
107. Duda Kateryna — 1891,
108. Bodnar Jus tyna — 1885,
109. Serniak Marija — 1890,
110. Seneczko Wasyl — 1894,
111. Seneczko Anna — 1905,
112. Seneczko Mykhailo — 1883,
113. Seneczko Volodymyr — 1908,
– 114. Chomyk 1908,
115. Serniak Mykola — 1894 (disabled),
116. Serniak Anna — 1897,
117. Lazar Emilija — 1920,
118. Lazar Lubomyr — 1940,
119. Lazar Marija — 1943,
120. Jedynak Marija — 1866,
121. Czmil Ivan — 1896,
122. Czmil Marija — 1868,
123. Czmil Kateryna — 1873,
124. Derewenko Mykola — 1904,
125. Derewenko Olha — 1914,
126. Chmil Kateryna — 18 ,
127. Czmil Anna — 1909,
128. Sawka Jarosław — 1945,
129. Jurczyszyn Łuka — 1870,
130. Seneczko Marija — 1890,
131. Dzwinczyk Ivan — 18171,
132. Czubak Wołodymyr — 1930,
133. Chudzikewycz Justyna — 1880,
134. Temoczko Wasyl — 1879,
135. Derewenko Mykoła — 1906,
136. Parańczak Stepan — 1906,
137. Bal Vasyl — 1889,
138. Filwarski Andrij 1878,
139. Filwarska Marija — 1887,
140. Horbowy Vasyl — 1880,
141. Horbowy Ivan — 1877,
142. Horbowa Olha — 1874,
143. Horbowy Myron — 1923 (disabled),
144. Kczak Marija — 1881,
145. Filwarska Justyna — 1879,
146. Filwarski Andrij — 1873,
147. Pańkewycz Marta — 1909,
148. Kuras Iwanna — 1931 ,
149. Szpak Olha — 1916,
150. Radwańska Anna — 1881,
151. Krajewski Ivan — 1886,
152. Sokił Ivan — 1877,
153. Sokił Marija — 1882,
154. Bal Ivan — 1864,
155. Bal Anna — 1871,
156. Kaczmarska Paraskewija — 1900,
157. Pańkewycz Tadej — 1933,
158. Pańkewycz Julijan — 1941,
159. Bodnar Kateryna — 1880,
160. Swatyk Mykoła — 1859,
161. Melnyk Antin — 1861 […] ”
source: „Wisti z terenu”, 11 V 1945; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 226, sh. 44908
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]
Recollection of Maria Muryn:
„As early as 1945, terrifying rumors about murders and terrible abuse of Poles over the peaceful Ukrainians living on the San River reached our village and the surrounding countryside. In early spring, people who had survived the attacks of Poles escaped through our village in carts. The misfortune did not pass us by either. On April 11, 1945, Polish gangs, walking through the village of Bachów near the San River, where they also killed innocent people, attacked our village of Brzuska at dawn. We heard cries and screams from the western part of the village, the hamlet of Hruszów, where the most victims were killed. Barefoot and if we could, we ran towards the town of Bircza. Polish bandits chased people up, killing people on the way to the village of Sufczyna. They also killed my father. The priest and his wife hacked with an ax. Older residents estimated that around 200 people were killed then”.
source: „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Lviv 2002, vol. 3: „Memoirs”, p. 51
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]
Recollection of Julian Pankiewicz, b. 1931:
„It was a sunny morning on April 11, 1945 when the shooting suddenly started. With my mother, who was holding my 4–month–old brother in her arms, we ran away. When we were running near the village office, we saw Poles setting thatch on fire. We got to our uncle Michał Saneczka. There, the Poles caught us and demanded that we show the Kennkarte. They found out that mom is Ukraine. One of the Poles started screaming at my mother, challenged her with bandits, bandits, but another interfered and let us out. We had nowhere to go, bandits were looking for people everywhere, the village was on fire. We rushed to my uncle's house and hid there. Meanwhile, the Poles in the yard killed his son, Volodymyr. The daughter fell on him and shouted
— «Daddy, my son!».
They wanted to kill her as well, but they obeyed the mother's pleas, convincing her that her daughter was Polish. One of the bandits entered the room where we were sitting on the stove, but he did not see us. That's why we stayed alive. Then we surreptitiously reached Bircza, where we met our father. Grandma did not manage to escape, the Poles killed her with an ax”.
source: „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Lviv 2002, vol. 3: „Memoirs”, p. 51
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]
1945 April 30, Bircza — Fragment of the situational report of the head of the Bircza Krajewski commune for the poviat starosty in Przemyśl for the period April 1 — April 30, 1945:
„On April 11, 1945, unknown bandits attacked the Brzuska and Sufczyna communities, murdering the population and destroying residential houses […]
Krajewski”
source: State Archive in Przemyśl, in: SPP sygn. 79, sh. 13
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:
182 – 200
min. 182
max. 200
ref. no:
10120
date:
1945.05–1945.06
site
description
general info
Brzuska
Poles – 1 person 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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10336
date:
1945.10.05
site
description
general info
Brzuska
The UPA robbed and burned the village and murdered 13 Poles who had been persuaded to stay in the village by the Greek Catholic priest, Oleksy Bilik, assuring them that they were safe; he collaborated with the OUN–UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
13
min. 13
max. 13
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