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
Dynów
Brzozów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Rzeszów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
14
max.:
14
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
4
max.:
4
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11844
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Dynów
Polish translation of information by Fyłyp T. Wasylowski about the murder of Ukrainians in the village of Łubno included in the collection „Jarosław and Beyond the San region” from 1986:
„At the end of 1943, a Polish partisan unit was formed in the forests and began to carry out attacks on Ukrainian activists. The first to die in his own home at the hands of a Polish bandit was the president of UDK in Dynów, Mykoła Łewycki from Pawłokoma. Soon Karpa, also from Pawłokoma, an accountant of the cooperative in Dynów, died. He was killed on the San River near Dynów”.
source: „Łubno”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 299—303
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:
09306
date:
1945.01
site
description
general info
Dynów
The UPAs kidnapped 3 Poles who went missing.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 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:
09495
date:
1945.03.04
site
description
general info
Dynów
[The Ukrainians] abducted and murdered Adam Dykas, a deputy of the MO post in the rank of a platoon.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11843
date:
1945.05.02
site
description
general info
Dynów
Excerpt from the testimony of the witness, Marija Prokop, about the murder of 5 Ukrainians–members of her family in Dynów by members of the Home Army:
„The witness Prokop Maria, daughter of Kazimierz, 75, the housekeeper, living in Dynów at Armii Czerwonej street, a stranger to the accused testifies:
«after liberation in February 1945, I lived in Dynów with my two sons, Stefan and Miron, and my daughter, Emilia. My third son, Jerzy, lived with his wife and children also in Dynów, but separately in the Market Square on the first floor, and he had a shop on the ground floor. He had three minor children, the oldest was four years old. Jerzy's wife, Maria, and her mother, Anna Fil, and a maid lived with my son Jerzy.
In February 1945, I do not remember the date, around 7 p.m., three armed individuals entered our apartment. They told us to lie on the floor in the kitchen. These individuals ordered Chudzikiewicz — a neighbor who was with us at that time, to go home, and then took my sons downstairs. When my son Stefan was crying and asking for his life, I heard a voice from below: ‹Take them›. A short time after my sons were brought outside, I heard a shout: ‹Jesus Maria!› and arrows. The next morning I went with my daughter to the yard, where we noticed a pool of blood, and the bodies of the murdered sons were not there. The same night, the perpetrators took a couple of horses, a cart and all our clothes. I do not recognize any of the accused as the perpetrators of the murder of my sons.
On the same day in the evening my son Jerzy was murdered, his wife and mother–in–law lived in the Market Square in Dynów. At that time, I was sick and I never went out. The day after the murder of my sons, Stefan and Miron, my daughter went to see Jerzy and, on her return, told me that he, his wife and mother–in–law were also murdered the same night by unknown perpetrators»”.
source: „Minutes of the main hearing in the case against Sputa Czesław and others – testimony of Maria Prokop”, 30 VII 1953; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 107/1468, vol. 1, sh. 90
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:
11842
date:
1945.05.05
site
description
general info
Dynów
Excerpt from the interrogation report of the suspect Mieczysław Jurasiński about the murders of 7 Ukrainians in Dynów by members of the Home Army:
„The next day, in the same period of time, I met, during the night duty, along with Łukasiewicz, a Ukrainian Kozanowski, the treasurer of the above–mentioned Prokop, who was walking down the street and allegedly leaving from Dynów. Then we shot him together with Łukasiewicz and buried him in a trench behind Żydowska Górka in Dynów (near the cemetery). In the briefcase he had around him he had shoes, a shirt and something money, so I shared the contents with Łukasiewicz. I reported the execution of the above sentences to Chudzikiewicz with Łukasiewicz as the one from whom we received the order to liquidate the above–mentioned […]
Then, in May 1945, I do not remember the exact date, two Ukrainians were taken from the train station in Dynów by me, Łukasiewicz and who was Moreover, I cannot remember which Ukrainians were returning from Germany. After examining the above–mentioned individuals, it turned out that they had identity cards in which the Ukrainian nationality was marked. We led these individuals with the intention of eliminating them and throwing them into the San, but on the way these individuals sensed something and began to flee, then we released a series of machines in them, putting them in place. We buried one specimen in the Strzelecki ditch near the train station in Dynów, in the same place as [Józef] Kucyła's body. On the other hand, we buried the second individual in the trench near the cemetery, and this is because he was running away and we chased him there by shooting him.
Me and Łukasiewicz and the younger Gąsecki Artur from Dynów took part in the liquidation of the above–mentioned two Ukrainians. The above–mentioned Ukrainians were returning from Germany and had small suitcases with underwear and clothes with them, which we shared.
At the end of May 1945, I remember that the Citizens' Militia in Dynów detained three Ukrainians. After checking their identity cards, they were released. We found out about it, it means that I, Rzekowski and Łukasiewicz, that these Ukrainians were released and were going to spend the night. Then we took them and led them near the new cemetery in Dynów, where we shot them together, and then we threw the bodies into a German ditch, burying them with clay. We took the things they had around them and shared things like underwear and shoes with them.
At the end of May 1945 or the beginning of June 1945, one Ukrainian woman who was returning from Germany was also taken from the railway station. The woman from the station was taken by Łukasiewicz with another boy, whose name I did not know exactly, Zach or Łach, who they brought to a well in Dynów near the market square, under the name of 'Gryna', and shot her there. I, while passing through the city, heard shots there, I ran to find this woman already shot, whom we then let together into the well. The Ukrainian woman who was shot had a package with her, containing underwear and other worthless trinkets, which we shared together. The corpse in the well remained covered with rubble, stones and wood”.
source: „Protocol of the interrogation of the suspect M. Jurasiński by the investigating officer of the WUBP in Rzeszów”, 26 VIII 1947; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 052/113, vol. 1, sh. 44845
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
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