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
Fraga
Rohatyn pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Fraha
Rohatyn rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
121
max.:
127
events (incidents)
ref. no:
03890
date:
1943.09–1943.12
(autumn)
site
description
general info
Fraga
The Ukrainians murdered Władysław Bieńkowski.
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:
04925
date:
1944.02.05
site
description
general info
Fraga
The Banderites murdered the vicar, Father Witalis Borsuk.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05070
date:
1944.02.19
site
description
general info
Fraga
The Banderites murdered 39 Poles: Fr Joachim Stanisław Szafraniec, OFM, the administrator of the parish of the Bernardine monastery in Fraga, brothers: Roch Sałka, OFM, Euzebiusz Kamiński, OFM, father Antoni Szałek, OFM – the superior of the order, who was tortured and sawed in half, and 35 parishioners.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Association for the Commemoration of the Victims of the Crimes of Ukrainian Nationalists in Wrocław — web page: www.stowarzyszenieuozun.wroclaw.pl [accessible: 2001.12.12]
Others: „Ukrainian attacks in the Rohatyn district. 18.II.1944. Fraga town – victims 45”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, February 26 - List of Ukrainian attacks in the Rohatyn district”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 89
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
39 – 45
min. 39
max. 45
ref. no:
06428
date:
1944.04.14
site
description
general info
Fraga
During the night raid, the Banderites robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered 31 Poles, mainly women and children, incl. a teacher with 2 children, including a newborn. Earlier, on February 19, 30 Poles were murdered here. „On this frosty evening, the Bandera followers murdered only men, including three Bernardine monks. In the morning, the Germans came to the village and prepared documentation and photographs of the murdered, ordered them to be buried and left. The victims' families made makeshift coffins out of planks and three people were buried in one grave. The local Ukrainians did not agree to the mass grave. On April 13, 1944, The local Ukrainians razed the graves of the murdered men to the ground on February 19, 1944, and obliterated all traces of their burial. The next day, April 14, 1944, a group of armed Banderites attacked. She plundered all houses, murdered all the inhabitants of the village, Poles, this time women, children and old people. The bodies of the murdered were loaded onto carts and taken to a place unknown to us. About 31 people were killed. Everyone, regardless of age and gender, was murdered. I remember that Rozalia Duma, my grandmother's sister, was a midwife and at that time she was at the teacher's when she was born. She was murdered there together with a teacher, a newborn child and her three‑year‑old daughter”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Matys Michał, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 440
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:
31
min. 31
max. 31
ref. no:
07009
date:
1944.05.07
site
description
general info
Fraga
Fraga next to Rohatyn on May 7, an armed attack was organized. 49 Poles were killed, Friar Monastery. Bernardines were burned.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, July 3 - Letter from PolKO in Stryj to the RGO in Krakow containing a list of attacks on the Polish population in the Stryj, Żydaczów and Rohatyn poviat from May to June 1944”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/2, p. 33—34
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
49
min. 49
max. 49
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