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
Cewków
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
29
max.:
32
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
29
max.:
137
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11754
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Cewków
Excerpt from Ivan Horajski's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Dzików Stary and Dzików Nowy by members of MO, UB and soldiers of the Polish Army […]
„Murdered by Soviet Poles […] :
Mykoła Kupyło, murdered in Cewków, beating up 1944;
Iwan Procajło, Cewków, 1944”.
source: Horajski I., „Spomyny”, b.m., b.d., b.p.; in: Bogdan Huk's archive, 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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11755
date:
1944.12
site
description
general info
Cewków
Excerpt from Ivan Horajski's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Dzików Stary and Dzików Nowy by members of MO, UB and soldiers of the Polish Army […]
„Murdered by Soviet Poles […] :
In December 1944, Ivan Znak was caught in Cewków. They brought him to his house and murdered him in his house, beating him until he died”.
source: Horajski I., „Spomyny”, b.m., b.d., b.p.; in: Bogdan Huk's archive, 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
ref. no:
11751
date:
1945–1946
site
description
general info
Cewków
Fragments of K. Wasylkewycz's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Sucha Wola and other villages by soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces, members of MO and gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„In Cewków in the Lubaczów poviat, the school's headmaster Konstantyna Łysiak was shot at school with her husband and 3 family members”.
source: Wasylkewycz K., „Spohady”, b.m., b.d.; in: Bogdan Huk's archive, in: , p. 23, 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:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
11750
date:
1945.03
site
description
general info
Cewków
Excerpt from the report „Wisti z terenu” of April 18, 1945:
„in March 1945, the Polish police shot 9 people in Cewków and burned down one farm”.
source: „Wytiah iz Wistej z terenu pro antyukrajinśki akciji polakiw na Hrubesziwszczyni w berezni1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 860, 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]
Information from the list of victims prepared by the OUN clerk, including data on a Ukrainian, Yuri Wach, murdered by members of the Citizens' Militia in Cewków:
„9. Wach Jurko — watchman, [born] 1.2.1914, Cewków […] , arrested and killed by the Polish police;”.
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 19, sh. 63, in: transl. B. Huk
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:
9—10
min. 9
max. 10
ref. no:
09593
date:
1945.03.27–1945.03.28
site
description
general info
Cewków
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
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:
09719
date:
1945.04.05
site
description
general info
Cewków
The Ukrainians murdered 3 Poles.
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
10238
date:
1945.08.17
site
description
general info
Cewków
On August 17, 1945, they murdered Józef Jabłoński, born in 1933 and another boy named Otulak, born 1933.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
10342
date:
1945.10.06
site
description
general info
Cewków
The UPA massacred 8 Poles, including a 4‑year‑old boy and 4 women.
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:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
10350
date:
1945.10.08
site
description
general info
Cewków
The Ukrainians murdered Zofia Kudła, Marian Bander, 20 and Zofia Tabor.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
11049
date:
1946.03–1946.06
(spring)
site
description
general info
Cewków
In the village of Cewków, poviat Lubaczów, the UPA murdered 2 Poles, aged 21 and 24.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
In the spring of 1946, in the village of Cewków — Buda Czerniakowa, [the Ukrainians] murdered Albin Burdzy and Walerian Burdzy.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
10987
date:
1946.04.01–1946.04.30
site
description
general info
Cewków
In the village of Cewków, poviat Lubaczów, the UPA murdered two Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11752
date:
1946.05
site
description
general info
Cewków
List of 11 Ukrainians murdered by members of Polish gangs in Cewków made by an unknown OUN clerk:
„Cewków:
1. Łysiak Bohdan — [b. in] 1905 […] , [killed by] a Polish gang;
2. Konstantyn — [born in] 1903 […] ,
3. Kornowa Marija — [born in] 1867 […] ,
4. Kozak Fyłymon — [born in] 1898 […] ,
5. Teodozij — [born in] 1900 […] ,
6. Petro — [born in] 1902 […] ,
7. Dmytro — [born in] 1929 […] ,
8. Czerpak Andrij — [born in] 1900 […] ,
9. Wschowa Iwan — [born in] 1924 […] ,
10. Susz Teodor — [born in] 1908 […] ,
11. Sarabuda Mychajło — [killed by a Polish gang]”
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 19, sh. 63, in: transl. B. Huk
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]
May (?) 1946, [typescript] — Fragment of a report by Mykhail Borys 'Żan', a political clerk of the II region in the Zakerzonya Region, about the murders of Ukrainians in Cewków:
„Total: 11 murdered, including 3 women, 8 men (by a Polish gang)”.
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:
11—13
min. 11
max. 13
ref. no:
11076
date:
1946.06.18
site
description
general info
Cewków
In the village of Cewków, poviat Lubaczów, „during an attack by a UPA gang, the following people were murdered: Bander Kazimierz, b. 1909; Kudła Zofia, d/o Wojciech, b. February 24, 1915; Tabor Julia, d/o Wojciech, b. 1919; Tabor Stefania, d/o Wojciech, b. 3 March 1922”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 473
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
11753
date:
1947
site
description
general info
Cewków
Excerpt from Ivan Horajski's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Dzików Stary and Dzików Nowy by members of MO, UB and soldiers of the Polish Army […]
„Murdered by Soviet Poles […] :
Karchut Petro from Dzików, murdered in Cewków in 1947”.
source: Horajski I., „Spomyny”, b.m., b.d., b.p.; in: Bogdan Huk's archive, 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
ref. no:
11522
date:
1947.02.01
site
description
general info
Cewków
The Ukrainians murdered 29‑year‑old Michał Cieplicki.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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