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
Dobra Szlachecka
Sanok pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Sanok cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
32
max.:
55
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
27
max.:
27
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Poles and Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
0
max.:
6
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11823
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
1992, Jarzeń — Polish translation of Iwan Demkowicz–Dobriański's account of the murders of Ukrainians in Dobra:
„In 1946, when the front was approaching the San river, Ukrainians and Poles until the age of 20had to join the Polish Army. In order to avoid the war, especially in the Carpathians, Poles joined the [reserves of the militia] ORMO and the Citizens' Militia MO saying: «May the Russians conquer Poland themselves». Hearing that the Poles did not want to join the army, the Ukrainians began to flee. The Poles, however, carried out manhunts and sent those caught to the front. During the third raid they shot Josyp Krajnyk. He was 45 at the time. Soon the same fate befell his 35‑year‑old brother Mykola”.
[The account is very imprecise. The front passed in 1944, the ORMO and the Civic Militia were not there yet. Poles could not send anyone to the front. It was the Germans who attempted to draft Poles into military organisations. GTRKK]
source: „Sanok litany”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 326—327
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:
11832
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
Dobra Szlachecka
Fragment of Stepan Nisiewicz's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Dobra Szlachecka by various armed formations of the Republic of Poland:
„People continue to die, including: Wiktor Stałeny, 38, Nadija Hnatuszko, 24, Cecylija Pankewycz, 33, Teodor Gbur, 42, Wincentij Grumpy 46, Stepan Dziurdziak, 38, Anela Popowycz, 24, Pawo Burdiak, 32, Kateryna Pankewycz, 26, Ołena Dziurdziak, 33, Łeontij Dziuerdzewycz, Ołena Zahaczewska, 22, Naralija Biłas, 26, Volodymyr Popel, Popyrov, Volodym 29, Justyna Nisewycz, 23, Pawło Nisewycz, 38, Iryna Nisewycz, 22, Natalija Nisewycz, 30”.
source: „Spohad Stepana Nisewycza narodżenoho w Dobrij Szlachetśkij Sianićkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 187—191
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:
19
min. 19
max. 19
ref. no:
11826
date:
1944.12
site
description
general info
1992, Jarzeń — Polish translation of Iwan Demkowicz–Dobriański's account of the murders of Ukrainians in Dobra:
„In December 1944, a Polish gang from Borownica went through the forest to Dobra. There were several huts near the forest. From one of them they took Mykoła Demkowycz (born in 1921), Andrij Hyńek (20 years old), Stepan Dziurdziewicz (35 years old) and his brother Mychjło (45 years old). They led them into the forest, ordered them to lie down on the ground and threw a grenade between them. Mykhailo Dziurdziewicz was torn apart, his brother's legs were shattered, Hyńko was injured in the arm, and Demkowycz was injured in the leg”.
source: „Sanok litany”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 326—327
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:
11824
date:
1945.03
site
description
general info
1992, Jarzeń — Polish translation of Iwan Demkowicz–Dobriański's account of the murders of Ukrainians in Dobra:
„In March 1945, during a Polish gang attack, three hosts were taken: Mykola Demkowycz (35), Szymek Tyrawski (65‑year‑old war invalid). from 1915) and Iwana Tech (aged 35). All three were shot and thrown into the water during the ferry crossing across the San from Tyrawa Solna to Mrzygłód. Nobody knew what happened then. The next day, Tyrawski's wife went to the militia in Mrzygłód. A Polish gang quartered there. She was told no one from the Dobrian was here and to go home. When she was returning to Tyrawa by ferry, she saw how the bandits were throwing an old woman into the river and drowning her. After a few days, the water threw her body on the shore near Ulucz. People conveyed the message to Dobra. Stefan's son recognized his mother by clothes.
Shortly after this accident, two civilian bandits caught a woman who was returning home from Tyrawa. It was 50‑year‑old Magda Czomko. They took off its clothes, strangled it and threw it into the San. No one found her body”.
source: „Sanok litany”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 326—327
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:
11819
date:
1945.04
site
description
general info
Excerpt from the protocol of Justyna Gisiewicz's interrogation on April 30, 1945 by the SB‑OUN clerk about the murders of milita MO members from Sanok on 5 Ukrainians from Dobra:
„I reported to the police in Sanok on the following Ukrainians from the village of Dobra: Tyrański Semen and Tyrańska Anna, Demkowycz Andriy, Demkovych Mykola, Uhryn Ivan. They were arrested by the militia from Sanok and disappeared on the way”.
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, Cop. VII b (287), sh. 99
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:
11825
date:
1945.06
site
description
general info
1992, Jarzeń — Polish translation of Iwan Demkowicz–Dobriański's account of the murders of Ukrainians in Dobra:
„During a raid conducted by the Polish Army in June 1945, the following were shot: Iwan Kowalski (35) from the Diło colony, Mychajło Buczyński (35 lat) and Josyf Soroka from Siemuszowa, married in Dobra, got a bullet in the back”.
source: „Sanok litany”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 326—327
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
10095
date:
1945.06.26
site
description
general info
Dobra Szlachecka
The Ukrainians murdered Piotr Stażnicki.
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:
10096
date:
1945.06.29
site
description
general info
Dobra Szlachecka
The local Ukrainians murdered the farmer Mikołaj Stalowy.
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:
12030
date:
1945.08.19–1945.08.21
site
description
general info
October 25, 1945, typescript — Excerpt from the communiqué of the National Leadership of the Zakerzonya Region from August–September 1945:
„On August 19, 20 and 21 [1945], Polish army units terrorized and robbed the villages of Lachawa and Dobra. They beat people, even completely old 70‑year‑old women, small children, completely destroyed 4 houses, raped 6 girls, killed 2 farmers”.
source: „Informacija pro polśko-ukrajinśke protystojannia na Peremyszczyni”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 892, 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:
10347
date:
1945.10.07
site
description
general info
Dobra Szlachecka
The Ukrainians murdered the farmer Władysław Nycz, 20.
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:
20
min. 20
max. 20
ref. no:
11830
date:
1946.01
site
description
general info
Dobra Szlachecka
Ukrainians in Dobra Szlachecka:
„In January 1946, the Polish Army came to the Zamagura colony near Dobra, burnt 18 huts and took 4 farmers. They were: Wasyl Nisewycz — 48 years old, Andrij Popel — 40 years old, Mychajło Nisewicz — 35 years old, the fourth was from Bryżawa. All day they were tortured next to a small chapel behind the village, and in the evening they went to Bircza, leaving four corpses, tortured so that when their wives and children came, they would not be able to recognize their loved ones”.
source: „Dobra Szlachecka”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 249—250
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:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
11833
date:
1946.01
site
description
general info
Dobra Szlachecka
Fragment of Stepan Nisiewicz's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Dobra Szlachecka by various armed formations of the Republic of Poland:
„In January 1946, on Christmas Eve itself, an army from Bircza burst into the village […] They set fire to farms, if someone tries to extinguish them, they beat rifles waiting for it to burn better. Scream and cry everywhere — 11 houses are on fire. It's frost outside, the cows are roaring and the soldiers won't let them untie. The farms of Szczurek, one of the best in the area, 50 hectares with all machines and a horse treadmill, burned down then. They take a few men with them and go to Brzeżawa, stopping in a corner of Fedchat. There they drove the Polish Ulan family to the barn. They broke their arms, legs, ribs, smashed their heads, and then shot them half–conscious. Then the following died: Wasyl Nisewycz, Iwan Nisewycz, Dmytro Zahaczewski, Semen Gbur, Josyp Popel. Only Mykołaj Nisewycz managed to escape”.
source: „Spohad Stepana Nisewycza narodżenoho w Dobrij Szlachetśkij Sianićkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 187—191
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:
11820
date:
1946.01.06
site
description
general info
Excerpt from the situational report of the 'T' clerk from the OUN district 'Chłodny Jar' about the murder by the Polish Army soldiers and MO members on Ukrainians in Dobra:
„On January 6, 1946, at 7 a.m., the Polish Army together with the Citizens' Militia from Bircza attacked Dobra […] The incoming Poles (the spearhead) were fired on by a machine gun fire from the 'Jara' unit stationed at that time in the Dobra's hamlet 'Za Magura'. In the face of overwhelming enemy forces, sotnya withdrew to the forest, killing 3 Polish riders during the retreat and capturing one horse with a saddle. After entering the village, Poles robbed 18 houses and then burned them. They took cattle, Christmas pastries and everything else from the village. Only the old people remained in the village, because the younger ones fled into the forest in advance. The three remaining Ukrainians in the village were shot: Wasyl Nisewycz, 42, Wasyl Popil, 34, and a third”.
source: „Wisti z terenu [za styczeń 1946]”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 451, 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
Poles and Ukrainians
number of
textually:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
11829
date:
1946.01.15
site
description
general info
Dobra Szlachecka
Excerpt from the situational report of the political clerk of the OUN 'Chłodny Jar' district, Petr Kawuza 'Taras', on the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Dobra Szlachecka:
„On January 15, 1946, 250 soldiers of the Polish Army armed with light weapons in 2 mortars and a 45 mm cannon were pushed forward towards the village of Dobra Szlachecka from Tyrawa Solna, encircling it on two sides […] After an hour‑long firing of the forest, they entered the village and began to rob everything, beating people who did not want to give up their property. They did not take the cattle. They caught a few men fleeing into the forest with their bundles, immediately identified them and returned to the village. In the Czerłenne hamlet of Dobra, they caught three Ukrainian men who were escaping to the forest before a manhunt. They were: Osyp Gbur from Krecowo, 25, Iwan Gbur from Wola Krecowska, 38, and another one from Siemuszowa. The documents were burnt by the army at one farmer in Czerłenne, and the arrestees were treated as Banderites. An unknown group commander gave the soldiers an order to shoot them. The maddened soldiers pounced on them and began to torture them, and then shot them from the machine guns PPSz”.
source: „Wisti z terenu wid 7.1. do 30.1.1946”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 465, 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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
11831
date:
1946.04
site
description
general info
Dobra Szlachecka
1992, Jarzeń — Polish translation of Iwan Demkowicz–Dobriański's information about the murder of Ukrainians in Dobra Szlachecka:
„In April 1946, an order was issued to Dobra from the commune and the militia in Mrzygłód to bring a few carts of trees to the commune from the forest in Tyrawa Solna fuel. They went, returned in the evening, at the end was 25‑year‑old Ivan Bilas. Two bandits were waiting in the bushes by the San river. They caught Biłas, choked him and threw him into the San. After a few days, the children found the body, they were catching fish. And the bandits fled their horses to the Polish village of Dydnia, district of Brzozów. The horses were found after a year”.
source: „Dobra Szlachecka”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 249—250
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:
11821
date:
1946.05.22
site
description
general info
Excerpt from the situational report of the political clerk of the OUN district 'Chłodny Jar', Petr Kawuza 'Ruslan' about the murder by a Polish Army officer on Ukrainians in Dobra:
„On May 21, 1946, at 6 a.m., the Polish Army numbering 120 people came to the village of Dobra for deportation people. A Soviet captain also arrived and immediately joined the village administrator. He asked where his sons were (escaped), then shot his wife with a gun, then him. The village administrator and his wife were Ukrainians”.
source: „Wisti z terenu [za maj 1946]”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 502, 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:
11101
date:
1946.06.27
site
description
general info
Dobra Szlachecka
In the village of Dobra Szlachecka, poviat Sanok, the UPA murdered 4 Poles.
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:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
11827
date:
1946.07.09
site
description
general info
Excerpt from the situational report of the political clerk of the OUN 'Chłodny Jar' district, Petr Kawuza 'Ruslan', on the murder by the Polish Army soldiers in Dobra (Ulucz?):
„On July 9, 1946, the Polish Army in the number of 200 people came from Sanok to the San side, splitting into two groups. One went to Dobra and the other to Ulucz. The population began to flee to the forest. The army opened fire with machine guns on the fleeing people, killing two people: Mychajła Zacharka, 69 (Pole) and Kateryna Kubczyk, 65 (Ukrainian)”.
source: „Wisti z terenu [za lipiec 1946]”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 512, 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:
11822
date:
1946.09.14
site
description
general info
Fragment of a field report by the SB‑OUN clerk of the 'Chłodny Jar' district, Vasyl Capiak 'Potap', about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on a Ukrainian, Mykola Uhryna in Dobra:
„On September 14, 1946 […] the Polish Army arrived in the village of Dobra, where in a hamlet they shot a boy Uhryna Mykoła, Ukrainian, born on in 1929. Then they burned down his house and left […]
Stopover, 19 October 1946 'Potap'”.
source: „Wisti z terenu za misiać wereseń 1946 roku”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 26, sh. 55
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:
11310
date:
1946.10.31
site
description
general info
Dobra Szlachecka
Ukrainians murdered Michał Kowalczyk, born in in 1925, a farmer.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.26]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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