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
Chotylub
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
60
max.:
168
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
21
max.:
21
events (incidents)
ref. no:
08918
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Chotylub
The Ukrainians murdered 3 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 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:
06683
date:
1944.04
site
description
general info
Chotylub
The Ukrainians murdered 11 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
11
min. 11
max. 11
ref. no:
06471
date:
1944.04.16
site
description
general info
Chotylub
Ukrainian policemen arrested 4 Poles who disappeared without a trace.
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:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
06531
date:
1944.04.22
site
description
general info
Chotylub
The UPA murdered 11 Poles.
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:
11
min. 11
max. 11
ref. no:
06560
date:
1944.04.25
site
description
general info
Chotylub
The Ukrainians murdered 5 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Motyka Grzegorz, „So it was in Bieszczady. Polish-Ukrainian battles in 1943-1948.”, in: Volumen Publishing House, Warsaw 1999, Warsaw 1999, p. 201
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
07196
date:
1944.05
site
description
general info
Chotylub
The UPA murdered 2 Poles.
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
06960
date:
1944.05.02
site
description
general info
Chotylub
The UPA massacred 6 Poles.
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:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
07494
date:
1944.06
site
description
general info
Chotylub
Andrzej Łakomy was murdered by UPA militants.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 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:
09559
date:
1945.03.23
site
description
general info
Chotylub
The UPA murdered 3 Poles, including a woman. Others: on March 23, 1945 or May 22, 1944, they murdered Jan Kornaga and Anna Kornaga.
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
09593
date:
1945.03.27–1945.03.28
site
description
general info
Chotylub
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:
09864
date:
1945.04
site
description
general info
Chotylub
The Ukrainians murdered Marcin Gancarz, born in 1877.
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:
11760
date:
1945.04.02
site
description
general info
Chotylub
May (?) 1946, [typescript] — Excerpt from a report by Michał Borys 'Żan', a political clerk for the 2nd District of the Zakerzonya Region, on the murders of Ukrainians in Chotylub:
„April 2, 1945. people) carried out a terrorist action in the countryside. Such people were murdered during the action:
Gul Tymko — 60 years of age;
Hryćko Ołeksa — 55;
Truchaj Ivan — 56;
Czucharski Mykhailo — 23;
Czucharski Stepan — 18;
Jacucha Jewa — 19;
Jacucha Mychajo — 38”.
source: „Informacija pro ukrajinśki seła ta ich meszkanciw, szczo postradały w rezultati polśkych napadiw na terenach Jarosławszczyny ta Lubacziwszczyny protiahom 1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 956, 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:
7
min. 7
max. 7
ref. no:
09720
date:
1945.04.05
site
description
general info
Chotylub
The Ukrainians murdered two Poles: former Home Army soldier Michał Maciejko, s/o Mikołaj, 24, former Home Army soldier Szymon Piertuch, s/o Katarzyna.
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11762
date:
1945.05.15
site
description
general info
Chotylub
Excerpt from Anastazija Hryćko's memoirs about the murder of members of the Polish Republic and NKVD formation against 13 Ukrainians in Chotylub:
„After the front left to the west and Polish authorities reigned in the area, peace disappeared in the village. Polish gangs of various provenance, civic militia constantly disturbed the village, robbing and murdering the inhabitants […] The second misfortune took place on May 15, 1945, when the NKVD came to the village with Poles. On that day, Nastya Oleksiy Hryćko's father died. Many fellow residents were killed then:
1. Hul Tomko,
2. Płaksa Vasyl,
3. Jacuch Mykhailo,
4. Jacuch Iwan,
5. Bohun Theodor,
6. Patryła Iwan,
7. Count Ivan,
8. Pylyp Theodor.
They were serious farmers aged 40‑65. They were not spared and completely young:
1. Jacuch Jewa — 14 years old,
2. Czucharski Stepan — 18 years old,
3. Sucharyna Mykhailo — 17.
Father [Oleksija Hryćka — BH] was shot in front of Nastia, and then they set fire to the barn and the house. The flame engulfed everything around it, the neighboring buildings, it also attacked my father, who was lying nearby, to the barn. Nastia started to pull her father away from the fire, and as she did so, her clothes were on fire. She jumped into the river”.
source: Sudyn J. (opr.), „Odna iz tysiacz”; in: „Wisnyk Lubacziwszczyny”, in: No. 3, 1997, p. 82—83
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:
10308
date:
1945.09.29
site
description
general info
Chotylub
The UPA murdered Jan Sopyła.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 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:
11761
date:
1946.01.17
site
description
general info
Chotylub
May (?) 1946, [typescript] — Excerpt from a report by Michał Borys 'Żan', a political clerk from the 2nd District of the Zakerzon Region, about the murders of Ukrainians in Chotylub:
„On January 17, 1946, the Polish Army murdered Bohun Mychajl — 34 years”.
source: „Informacija pro ukrajinśki seła ta ich meszkanciw, szczo postradały w rezultati polśkych napadiw na terenach Jarosławszczyny ta Lubacziwszczyny protiahom 1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 956, 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:
10876
date:
1946.02
site
description
general info
Chotylub
In the village of Chotylub, poviat Lubaczów the UPA murdered Katarzyna Bednarz.
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:
11274
date:
1946.09
site
description
general info
Chotylub
In September 1946 [the Ukrainians] murdered Józef Kornaga and 4 unknown soldiers of the Polish Army.
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 – September 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.25]
The Ukrainian document gives the date of the attack as October 20, 1945.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
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