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GENOCIDIUM ATROX

GENOCIDE perpetrated by UKRAINIANS on POLES

Data for 1943–1947

Site

II Republic of Poland

Cygany

Borszczów pov., Tarnopol voiv.

contemporary

Tsyhany

Borshchiv rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine

Murders

Perpetrators:

Ukrainians

Victims:

Poles

Number of victims:

min.:

167

max.:

168

Location

link to GOOGLE MAPS

events (incidents)

ref. no:

01249

date:

1943.06.29

site

description

general info

Cygany

The Banderites kidnapped and murdered 2 Poles, including a gamekeeper; it was 2nd Lt. res. WP Kazimierz Kraśnicki approx. 30 years old.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

2

min. 2

max. 2

ref. no:

02121

date:

1943.07

site

description

general info

Cygany

Two Poles were murdered by Ukrainian policemen: Duszeńko Bogdan and Juzwa Michał.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

2

min. 2

max. 2

ref. no:

02435

date:

1943.07.25–1943.08.05

site

description

general info

Cygany

The Banderites kidnapped 5 Poles to the forest who were murdered: Dzikowska Anna, Kraśnicki Kazimierz, 30, Sokołowski Józef, Karwacki Piotr, 50, Radol Henryk, 20.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

5

min. 5

max. 5

ref. no:

02772

date:

1943.08

site

description

general info

Cygany

[The Ukrainians] abducted 3 Poles (including a woman) into the forest, who disappeared without a trace.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; 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:

03469

date:

1943.10.23

site

description

general info

Cygany

Julian Hordyński was murdered.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „Situation Report from the Polish Territories, No. 8/44”; in: The Polish Institute and the Gen. Sikorski in London, in: no: PRM — 122

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

03488

date:

1943.10.26

site

description

general info

Cygany

The Ukrainians murdered a Pole, the property manager. „On October 26, br. was murdered in Gypsies, Borszczów district Kazimierz Kraśnicki, manager of the farm in Gusztyna”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „1943, November 6 - Letter from PolKO in Czortków to the RGO in Krakow regarding attacks and abductions of Poles in the Zaleszczyki and Borszczów poviat”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 49

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

03746

date:

1943.11

site

description

general info

Cygany

Pużyński Michał, 24, was murdered.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

03645

date:

1943.11.09

site

description

general info

Cygany

The Ukrainians murdered 24‑year‑old Michał Puzyński.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; 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:

03713

date:

1943.11.21

site

description

general info

Cygany

The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles, including a woman. Others: „Murdered farmers: Piotr Karwacki, Andrzej Radoł, Maria Bednar”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „Situation Report from the Polish Territories, No. 8/44”; in: The Polish Institute and the Gen. Sikorski in London, in: no: PRM — 122

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

2 – 3

min. 2

max. 3

ref. no:

04054

date:

1943.12

site

description

general info

Cygany

The Ukrainians murdered 4 Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „Situation Report from the Polish Territories, No. 8/44”; in: The Polish Institute and the Gen. Sikorski in London, in: no: PRM — 122

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

4

min. 4

max. 4

ref. no:

04797

date:

1944.01

site

description

general info

Cygany

[The Ukrainians] abducted 44‑year‑old Wincenty Paskal at night and hung it on the balcony of one of the public buildings with a sign prohibiting the removal of the body for 3 days.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 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:

05928

date:

1944.03

site

description

general info

Cygany

Ukrainian policemen murdered in the forester's lodge a Pole, a gamekeeper, and a Jewish family of five (parents with 3 daughters), whom he was hiding. Others: Janik Jan, 50, a gamekeeper, murdered in a forester's lodge by the UPA.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]

Jan Janik was murdered together with the Jewish family that was kept at his place.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

6

min. 6

max. 6

ref. no:

07871

date:

1944.08

site

description

general info

Cygany

The following were murdered by the Banderites: Pużyński Jan, 55, Szczukowski Szczepan, 20.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

2

min. 2

max. 2

ref. no:

08043

date:

1944.09

site

description

general info

Cygany

The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles, including 25‑year‑old Maria Kokurudziak on the way to the pharmacy in Skala Podolska.

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:

2

min. 2

max. 2

ref. no:

07992

date:

1944.09.20

site

description

general info

Cygany

The Bandera followers dressed in the uniforms of Soviet soldiers, under the guise of being recruited to work in the mine, took 21 Poles, whose bodies were not found until 1946 in the area of the village of Teresin – Skała Podolska, in the well of a railway lineman 25 meters deep; the victims were thrown into it, head down, most of their hands tied backwards and broken spines; among the murdered were 11 women and a family of 4 with daughters, aged 11 and 13. In addition, in the village they murdered 2 Poles: „on September 20 [on] 8 o'clock in the morning the bandits killed an Istriebielny Battalion soldier, Psiekurski, living in the village of Cygany, and an inhabitant of this the village itself, a Pole, Trzański Jan s. Stefan, 51”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „Report of the head of the NKGB RO in Skala for the head of the UNKGB of the Tarnopol region of September 20, 1944

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

23

min. 23

max. 23

ref. no:

08224

date:

1944.10

site

description

general info

Cygany

Kukurudziak Maria, 24, Paskal Wincenty, 44, Sokołowski Jan, 50, were murdered.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

3

min. 3

max. 3

ref. no:

08180

date:

1944.10.22

site

description

general info

Cygany

The UPAs kidnapped and murdered 2 Poles returning from the church.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 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:

08366

date:

1944.11.12

site

description

general info

Cygany

The Ukrainians murdered 6 Poles, including a family of 3.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 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:

08756

date:

1944.12

site

description

general info

Cygany

16 NN Poles were murdered.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

16

min. 16

max. 16

ref. no:

10680

date:

1945

site

description

general info

Cygany

The Ukrainians murdered over 33 Poles; they abducted, tortured, raped the girls and then killed them; it is known that two people were cut with carpentry saws.

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:

33

min. 33

max. 33

ref. no:

09449

date:

1945.02.23

site

description

general info

Cygany

At night, a large UPA unit murdered 28 Poles, although the UPA command had previously given the Poles a deadline by the end of February to leave the village. Only 3 people were shot while escaping, the rest died of axes, knives, bayonets or were burned alive in buildings; mostly women and children; 16–month–old Helena Żołyńska smashed her head against the door frame. Moreover, in May the grave of 16 Poles was found in the sand near the forest – those who managed to escape that night were later caught and murdered.

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:

28

min. 28

max. 28

ref. no:

09460

date:

1945.02.26–1945.02.27

site

description

general info

Cygany

On the night of 26 February 45 to 27 February 45, the gang returned from the forest to the village of Cygany and brutally dealt with the Polish population living there in [si]. Eight Polish families were shot and slaughtered, including:
I family Kołodiczuk Mikołaj (father's name was born in 1875),
Szekulska Wiera d/o Mikołaj, born in 1909.
Szekulska Anna, born in 1940.
II Puziński family Michał s/o Grzegorz, born in 1880.
Puzińska Stefania d/o Michał, [born in] 1930
Puzińska Anna d/o Michał, [born in] 1933
Puziński Józek s/o Michał, [born in] 1937
III family Olechowski Józef (father's name [born in] 1880 not established),
Olechowska Maryna d/o Józef, [born in] 1890
IV family of Martyniuk Stefan s/o Antoni, [born in] 1930
Martyniuk Weronika d/o Antoni, [born in] 1928
&&&5th family Junik Aniśka (father's name [born in] 1912 not established),
Junik Kazimierz s/o Stefan, [born in] 1931
VI Żolińska family Anna (father's name [born in] 1888 not established),
Żolińska Halina d/o Włodzimierz, [born in] 1913
Żolińska Antonina d/o Antoni, [born in] 1943
VII family Martyniuk Antoni (father's name, age 62 not established),
Martyniuk Michalina d/o Antoni, 45 years old
VIII year [dzina] Nieszczuk Polina (father's name, aged 28, not established),
Nieszczuk, Janek d/o Trochim, age 11
Puzińska Maria d/o Michała was injured and is currently undergoing treatment.
Although in [ie] Gypsies and the forest were combed by istriebitielnyj battalion and officers of the NKVD RO and NKGB RO on 27 February 45, the gang was not established. During the meeting with the s / o apparatus, it was established that the gang left in the direction of the Chernihiv region.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „Special report of the head of the NKGB RO in Skala for the head of the UNKGB of the Tarnopol region of February 28, 1945”; in: State Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine, in: F. 73, op. 1, case 82, sh. 57—57 a

See also above: February 23, 1945.

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:

20

min. 20

max. 20

ref. no:

09865

date:

1945.04

site

description

general info

Cygany

The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles: the married couple Makohoniuk Józef, 45, and his wife Maria, 42, who, at the urging of a Ukrainian woman's neighbor, returned from the train station for some things to their home before leaving for Poland, here they were caught, hacked with axes and the body was burned with the whole house.

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:

2

min. 2

max. 2

ref. no:

11118

date:

1946.01–1946.06

(1st half of the year)

site

description

general info

Cygany

In the village of Cygany, poviat Borszczów, 'Ukrainian insurgents' hanged 77‑year‑old Michał Skawiński on an apple tree in his orchard for not having repatriated for Poland.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

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  2. The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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