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
Czerniczyn
Hrubieszów pov., Lublin voiv.
contemporary
Hrubieszów cou., Lublin voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
32
max.:
35
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
12
max.:
12
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11782
date:
1944–1945
site
description
general info
Czerniczyn
Fragment of Tekla Liborska's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Czerniczno by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„Most often nobody looked for the stolen property, but there was an accident that when one farmer had a cow stolen […] , [he] somehow found out who had taken the cow — They found a skin of it in Pobereżań, a suburb of Hrubieszów, and began to demand that the cow be returned. What a terrible price they paid for it! […] It happened that one evening a unit of the Polish Army was going from Modryń […] [After the murder of the Prokopy brothers in Masłomęcz], it arrived in Czerniczno to the family that was looking for a cow. [The soldiers] killed the farmer, Paweł Beka, his wife Anna, his wife's sister Marija Utkina, Wołodzka and Yevhen (13– and 15‑year‑old), who were the sons of Annina's sister–in–law, Marija Demczuk, and shot her herself when she ran away through the window, but they did not finish her off and she recovered. The neighbor, Ivan Bida, who had seen it all, and his son, 16‑year‑old Petra, were also killed. And again there were 10 corpses […]
Since then, he has not looked for the stolen property anymore, and yet people have continued to die”.
source: „Spohad Tekli Liborśkoji (diwocze prizwyszcze Dziad) narodżenoji 1920 roku w Czernyczyni”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 541
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—10
min. 7
max. 10
ref. no:
05268
date:
1944.02
site
description
general info
Czerniczyn
Taken on the so–called forszpan 12 Poles went missing without a trace, their carts and horses were plundered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
12
min. 12
max. 12
ref. no:
11780
date:
1944.08
site
description
general info
Czerniczyn
Fragment of Tekla Liborska's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Czerniczno by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„The front here passed on July 22, 1944. The harvest began and ended, and after the harvest, 9 men from the village with horses and carts were assigned to take various military items to the Vistula, where the front was located. After obeying the order, these men returned. For the last night before the village, the family went to one Polish village near Zwierzyniec. A woman they knew lived there, who had a field in Metelin (a kilometer from Czerniczyno), so she also knew our people and willingly took them over for the night. At night, people in military uniform came to her house and took these men to the forest. Two of our carters started to flee during the trip: one was killed and the other escaped. It was Ivan, the son–in–law of the Zajacs. When it started to dawn, [people in military uniforms] in the forest ordered the other men to undress and kneel. When there were only one in underwear, Volodymyr Makarchuk, started to run again. They shot him, and yet he ran away, although the house was completely memoryless. He couldn't say anything, but when he came to his senses, he told what had happened to him in the forest. There our carters were shot, dragged to a pile, covered with brush. One of them, Iwan Stasiuk, was only injured but lost consciousness. When he regained consciousness, he began to crawl out from under the corpses and brushwood, and when he managed to do so, he found out that none of the murderers were there, he went on all fours from the forest. He was walking in pain, then people helped him, thinking that he was a fugitive from German captivity. He was sent to hospital in Zamość, from where, after 10 days, Soviet soldiers brought him by car to Czerniczno. The families asked the soldiers to bring them the dead bodies to bury them, but they could not do it. The remaining ones in the forest were: Roman Wojtowycz, Josyp Łycz, Fedir Mazur, Paweł Pyłypczuk, Mychajło Bachmaczuk, and Mykoła Nowosad.
A few days after this accident, one of our hosts, his name was Hryć Pyłypczuk, received an order to go west with military equipment. When he was returning and was not far from his house, one soldier forced him to drive something again, and when he refused, he hit him on the head with a revolver so hard that day and night he did not regain consciousness. The next day, he died at the age of 40”.
source: „Spohad Tekli Liborśkoji (diwocze prizwyszcze Dziad) narodżenoji 1920 roku w Czernyczyni”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 541
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
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
11781
date:
1944.10.30
site
description
general info
Czerniczyn
Fragment of Tekla Liborska's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Czerniczno by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„At midnight on October 29, 1944, a school in our village was blown up [by the UPA], where a militia station was located. That tragic night the militia left school and stayed with Sydor Horoszczuk, so the school building was empty. The explosion put all the inhabitants on their feet. In the morning, an army unit arrived from Hrubieszów — an officer school from Lublin. They called the man to a meeting in front of the ruined school, put them face down on the cold, frosty wind, and held them until dusk. The council was then attended by the commandant of the militia, Pochylczuk, a Soviet colonel, a Polish colonel, the commune head Stefan Liborski and his deputy, Paweł Semeniuk. They read the names of 8 people, soldiers led them across the road and shot them in the field. They did not regret the bullets: our neighbor had 36 of them in him. 4 young boys, 22 each, 2 men over 40 years old, one 18‑year‑old girl who married a Soviet lieutenant two weeks ago (during the execution not he was at home). Those killed were: Petro Sywak, Petro Rabczuk, a relative of Father Hurka Natalka, Mykoła Pyłypczuk, Wołodymyr Sywak, Stepan Kozak, Josyp Pitus, and Petro Rabczuk. Tatiana Symczuk, a young girl, would also have been shot, but when they read her, commandant Pochylczuk fired her from under the bullets, and a relative of priest Hurka was called in her place. These people were shot, but some of them moved, so their friend from school years, Karol Knap, a Pole, walked among them and shot them in the head”.
source: „Spohad Tekli Liborśkoji (diwocze prizwyszcze Dziad) narodżenoji 1920 roku w Czernyczyni”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 541
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:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
11783
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Czerniczyn
Fragment of Tekla Liborska's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Czerniczno by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„People continued to die.
This happened to Petr Demczuk, the brother of the killed Anna Bida, whom they killed in the winter at the station, when he was returning from Hrubieszów; son of Tekla Yaremczuk, the only son of Ivan and Stefan Rybaczuk (19‑year‑old, and his predecessor, both of them worked at a thresher in Lotoszyn), who were taken in broad daylight, driven in the evening by a cart along the road between the Chernihiv colonies and tormented so that they shouted «Daddy, Mummy, save!» but how could defenseless people save them? They left the murdered with twisted heads and twisted fingers and toes in the pits near the road; Mykola Adamiuk, an 18‑year‑old boy, killed on the road when he was returning home from work (they covered the corpse with soil in the trenches and showed it until his father demanded it, because he wanted to bury him; Stepan Adamiuk and Ivan Pawluk, killed on the road to Hrubieszów (the murderers were the sons of Romanski, who lived in Michałówka, behind the steam mill); […] father [of the Adamiuk brothers] killed in his pigsty in the sheds; Hapka Żmurowa, killed when she was carrying a full cart of wheat to the mill”.
source: „Spohad Tekli Liborśkoji (diwocze prizwyszcze Dziad) narodżenoji 1920 roku w Czernyczyni”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 541
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:
8
min. 8
max. 8
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