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
Gorajec
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
116
max.:
116
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
188
max.:
191
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04807
date:
1944.01
site
description
general info
Gorajec
As a result of a false denunciation, Ukrainian policemen arrested 5 Poles who died at Majdanek: a mother with 3 children and a second woman.
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:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
05962
date:
1944.03
site
description
general info
Gorajec
[The Ukrainians] murdered about 15 Poles. G. Motyka reports that Iwan Szpontak alias „Zalizniak” was the deputy commander of the Ukrainian police in the Rava Ruska district. At the turn of February / March 1944, he led a group of 30 policemen to the forest and decided to join the UPA. The regional provincial of the OUN ordered him to go towards Gorajec in the district of Lubaczów and there start the formation of the UPA sotnya. Its core was 20 policemen (ten went home), who deserted the Germans together with him. Already at the beginning of April, „Zalizniak” had at his disposal a sotnya consisting of three groups: „Szuma”, „Bałaja” and „Kruk”. While quartering in Gorajec, the „Zalizniak” sotnya murdered a dozen or so Poles, partly to hide her presence.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
15
min. 15
max. 15
ref. no:
06620
date:
1944.04.30
site
description
general info
Gorajec
The Ukrainians murdered 6 Poles: a 16‑year‑old boy and 5 women, including 2 of the abductees who went missing without a trace.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 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:
06716
date:
1944.04
site
description
general info
Gorajec
During the quarters of the sotnya „Zalizniak” murdered 6 Poles, including 4 women, and 13‑year‑old Józef Kopciuch from the village of Żuków.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 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:
07004
date:
1944.04.30–1944.05.07
site
description
general info
Gorajec
The Ukrainians murdered 7 Poles, including 4 women.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
7
min. 7
max. 7
ref. no:
07090
date:
1944.05.20
site
description
general info
Gorajec
The Ukrainians murdered 2 Polish women.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 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:
07171
date:
1944.04–1944.05
site
description
general info
Gorajec
The UPA from the „Zaliźniak” sotnye murdered 58 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
58
min. 58
max. 58
ref. no:
11861
date:
1944.08.25
site
description
general info
Gorajec
End of 1945, [typescript] — Excerpt from the report of the OUN District II of the Zakerzonya Region about the murders in Gorajec […] :
„On August 25, 1944, the Bolshevik–Polish partisans killed a peasant Grzegorz Łaszyn, 41, the mentioned peasant was taken to forszpan and killed on the way”.
source: „Informacija pro ukrajinśki seła Zakerzonnia ta jich meszkanciw, szczo postradały w rezultati polśkych napadiw”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 1, p. 921—926
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:
08108
date:
1944.10.03
site
description
general info
Gorajec
Upowców from kuren „Żeleźniak” murdered 2 Polish women: mother and daughter; however, these are the same people as those mentioned in the village of Burgau, i.e. Maria Płanita, 38, and her mother, approx. 60.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 408
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11862
date:
1944.12.11
site
description
general info
Gorajec
End of 1945, [typescript] — Excerpt from the report of the OUN District II of the Zakerzonya Region about the murders in Gorajec […] :
„On December 11, 1944, Polish bandits beat a peasant, Wasyla Kaczor, 48, who was leaving milk to Ruda Różaniecka”.
source: „Informacija pro ukrajinśki seła Zakerzonnia ta jich meszkanciw, szczo postradały w rezultati polśkych napadiw”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 1, p. 921—926
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:
11864
date:
1944.09–1944.12
(autumn)
site
description
general info
Gorajec
Fragment of Jewa Fil's memoirs about the murder of the Ukrainians in Gorajec by a branch of the KBW [Interrnal Security Corps] and Polish civilians:
„After the arrival of the Bolsheviks from Cieszanów, Mr. Iwan Maczaj departed and stopped at the Buszcza hamlet in Gorajec. He would often come to the village, always carrying a thick prayer book, and return having thought that Buszcza was the safest. The killers from Cieszanów or Nowy Sioł began to approach her. It was the fall of 1944, when Mr. Maczaj was running across bare fields towards our village. It was already not far from the small forest of Nadłuh, but it did not come. And so more people ran away from us. Mrs. Maczajowa left for Ukraine in 1946, the news about her ceased to exist”.
source: „Spohad Jewy Fil (diwocze prizwyszcze Łaszyn) narodżenoji 1925 roku w Horajci Lubacziwśkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 141—144
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:
08954
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Gorajec
(in the vicinity)
Eighteen‑year‑old Marian Nepelski disappeared without a trace on his way to Narol. Years later it turned out that he had been murdered in the vicinity of Gorajec.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „UPA gangs in the Horyniec region area 3 - Murder in Nowinach Horynieckie”; in: portal: Horyniec Zdrój — web page: na.horyniec.info [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
08953
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Gorajec
The Ukrainians murdered 13 Poles, including a mother with 3 children. And: In the village of Gorajec, in 1944, they murdered Józef Kopciuch, 13, Adam Gach, 30, Jan Lewicki, Anastazja Lewicka with 2 children, Aleksander Sigłów, 18, and 2 unknown by name and for refusing to cooperate with the UPA. surnames of Ukrainians.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
13
min. 13
max. 13
ref. no:
11863
date:
1945.01.10
site
description
general info
Gorajec
End of 1945, [typescript] — Excerpt from a report by the management of the OUN District II of the Zakerzonya Region on the murders in Gorajec […] :
„On January 10, 1945, the Polish Army and MO, 50 people, murdered the following men:
Borkiwski Iwan, 31;
Błakita Wasyl, 39;
Gach Hryhorij, 30;
Gach Stepan, 46;
Karpyński Iwan, 24;
Karpyński Ilko, 32;
Łaszyn Iwan, 36.
Before they were shot, they stripped them of their outer clothes, took off their shoes and led them through the village, barefoot and almost naked. On the way, they beat him terribly and ordered them to return their weapons, but none of them admitted having a rifle. They were all pushed to the square near the village administrator (Hrycyk) and started shooting there. The first ones were shot by Łaszyn Ivan, then others. Both Karpińskis, seeing their inevitable death, started to run away, but they caught them and shot them”.
source: „Informacija pro ukrajinśki seła Zakerzonnia ta jich meszkanciw, szczo postradały w rezultati polśkych napadiw”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 1, p. 921—926
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]
Fragment of Jewa Fil's memoirs about the murder of the Ukrainians in Gorajec by a branch of the KBW and Polish civilians:
„After a few days, others burst in: inhabitants of Płazów and Ruda Różaniecka under the name of militia with white and red armbands, with weapons on a belt or a string. Apparently, they received a denunciation, because they immediately went to the Gachs, where two Bohuns from Chotylub were hiding. They murdered both the old Gach and his recently married son, someone else on the way, they found Hryńko Hanys on the way, so they killed him, and when they found Ivan Borkiwski, they also killed him. The first visit of Poles and there are no seven human beings.
That's how it started, but just like it went on. They fell, robbed, beat without asking. People cried, hens learned to hide in the chamber on their own.
Once upon a time, Iwan Łaszyn (Hryniusiw) had an unhappy day. He was walking in the countryside when they burst in. Polish bandits and a good farmer, Ivan, met on the Gorajec road. The blows of the butts were so hard that his skull split into two halves. The murderers are gone, and his pregnant wife, Maria, runs to Ivan's body. He collects his brain and skull for an apron. He takes it home, puts the brain into the tucked up halves of the skull, ties it with a handkerchief and hides it like that”.
source: „Spohad Jewy Fil (diwocze prizwyszcze Łaszyn) narodżenoji 1925 roku w Horajci Lubacziwśkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 141—144
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:
09725
date:
1945.04.05
site
description
general info
Gorajec
5 April at 21:00 2nd Independent Operational Battalion of the KBW together with militiamen under the command of Lt. Stanisław Szopiński, he left the barracks in Lubaczów. At 4:50 the next day, the battalion, divided into four groups, took up combat positions. Gorajec and its hamlets were encircled. At 5:00 am there was an attack. It began with a mortar shelling the village, followed by an infantry attack. At 6:10 the village was seized. The army stayed in Gorajec until 10:00 am, depriving the civilians of the village's lives. This was done throughout the estate. About 60 people were shot on the premises of one of the farms. The village was set on fire, more people hiding from the murders burnt alive in the buildings. The actions of the army were accompanied by actions of the Polish civilian population [2]. The civil property of the village inhabitants was plundered for the benefit of the army [2].
The purpose of the action was to destroy the headquarters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. However, no UPA units were stationed in the village at that time. The only armed force in the village was a small unit of Ukrainian self–defense. The actual task of the Polish troops was to intimidate the inhabitants in order to force them to leave the territory of Poland [3].
In the investigation conducted, the Institute of National Remembrance concluded that the action was an arbitrary act of the soldiers, and the purpose of the command was only the liquidation of the Ukrainian armed forces, therefore the „acts […] do not bear the features of the” communist crime.
source: „The crime in Gorajec”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
Excerpt from the report „Wisti z terenu” from April 18, 1945:
„April 1945, Szturmówka and the militia (about 300 people) robbed the village of Gorajec, then burned (there were 10 houses left) and killed 129 people escaping to the forest (including 40 women and 27 children), and severely beaten 29 wounded”.
source: „Wytiah iz Wistej z terenu pro antyukrajinśki akciji polakiw na Hrubesziwszczyni w berezni1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 860, 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]
Excerpt from the report of the political clerk of the 2nd OUN District of the Zakerzonya Region, Dmitri Dzioba „Stal”, from April 25, 1945:
„16 IV. The Polish militia and the army carried out an action in the village of Gorajec. Already at 3 o'clock they circled the village on all sides, most densely than the forest. The population began to flee. Poles began to catch and shoot. The second part dealt with burning farms and robbing Ukrainian houses. During the action, they burned down the entire village (180 farms). They murdered 135 people, including 69 men, 40 women and 27 children under 15. The action lasted until 8 am”.
source: „Informacija pro antyukrajinśki akciji na terenach Jarosławszczyny ta Lubacziwszczyny”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 865, 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]
End of 1945, [typescript] — Fragment of the report of the OUN District II of the Zakerzonya Region about the murders in Gorajec […] :
„On April 6, 1945, the Polish Army (Szturmówka), the MO from the posts in the Lubaczów district and Polish civilian scum from the surrounding villages (Chotylub, Cieszanów, Ruda Różaniecka, Lubaczów, Rudka and others) in the number of about 300 people carried out a terrorist action on the village of Gorajec. During the 3–4 hour action, the following people were murdered:
1. Abramyk Anna, 17;
2. Abramyk Olko, 44;
3. Abramyk Kateryna, 55;
4. Abramyk Teodor, 40;
5. Biły Iwan, 56;
6. Bohun Teodor, 33, from Chotylub village;
7. Boriweć Anastazija, 18;
8. Boriweć Wołodymyr, 7;
9. Boriweć Mychajło, 60;
10. Bruś Wołodymyr, 5;
11. Bruś Hryhorij, 35;
12. Borkiwśka Kateryna, 16;
13. Borkiwśka Marija, 32;
14. Borkiwśka Olha, 2;
15. Bumbar Andrij, 51;
16. Bumbar Iwan, 60;
17. Bumbar Mychajło, 46;
18. Bumbar Ołeksa, 46;
19. Wawrykowycz Iwan, 53;
20. Ważna Anna, 69;
21. Wijtowycz Andrij, 17;
22. Wijtowycz Anna, 57;
23. Wijtowycz Iwan, 63;
24. Wojtkiw Wasyl, 37;
25. Worobel Hryhorij, 50;
26. Worobel Nastia, 40;
27. Worobel Teodor, 54;
28. Worobel Jurij, 48;
29. Hrabeć Iwan, 45;
30. Hrabowycz Wasyl, 44;
31. Hrycyk Anastazija, 77;
32. Hrycyk Wasyl, 69;
33. Hrycyk Hryhorij, 57;
34. Hrycyk Jewa, 35;
35. Hrycyk Iwan, 44;
36. Hrycyk Marija, lar 42;
37. Hrycyk Mychajło, 58;
38. Hrycyk Jarosław, 13;
39. Gach Anastazija, 32;
40. Gach Wasyl, 46;
41. Gach Wasyl, 52;
42. Gach Hryhorij, 58;
43. Gach Jewa, 26;
44. Gach Paraskewija, 58;
45. Gach Marija, 6;
46. Gach Paraskewija, 37;
47. Gach Dmytro, 43;
48. Hroch Iwan, 4;
49. Hroch Iwanna, 17;
50. Hroch Anastazija, 37;
51. Kaczor Iwan, 54;
52. Kaczor Mykoła, 40;
53. Kołeha Hryhorij, 43;
54. Kobak Marija, 8;
55. Kobak Paraskewija, 45;
56. Kohut Stepan, 55;
57. Kozij Anastazija, 59;
58. Kozij Andrij, 52;
59. Kozaj Wasyl, 37;
60. Kozij Iwan, 5;
61. Kozij Kateryna, 17;
62. Kozij Marija, 8;
63. Kozij Marija, 13;
64. Kozij Mychajło, 45;
65. Kozij Mychajo, 2;
66. Kozij Paraskewija, 55;
67. Kozij Paraskewija, 34;
68. Kozij Petro, 70;
69. Kołosiwska Anna, 47;
70. Koosiwska Marija, 18;
71. Kołosiwska Paraskewija, 55;
72. Kołosiwski Hryhorij, 4;
73. Kołosiwski Iwan, 10;
74. Kołosiwski Iwan, 60;
75. Kołosiwski Ołeksa, 49;
76. Kordupel Anna, 49;
77. Kordupel Anna, 51;
78. Kordupel Petro, 53;
79. Kordupel Jurij, 30;
80. Kordupel Andrij, 13;
81. Krupski Iwan, 5;
82. Krupska Paraskewija, 45;
83. Krućko Iwan, 66;
84. Kulczycki Wasyl, 61;
85. Kulczycki Ilko, 44;
86. Kurij Anna, 2;
87. Kurij Wasyl, 57;
88. Kurij Dmytro, 52;
89. Kurij Jewa, 52;
90. Kurij Marija, 26;
91. Kurij Petro, 39;
92. Kuszil Anastazija, 42;
93. Kuszka Marko, 55;
94. Kuszczak Jarosław, 29;
95. Łaszyn Anastazija, 70;
96. Łaszyn Anna, 43;
97. Łaszyn Iwan, 11;
98. Łaszyn Hryhorij, 35;
99. Łaszyn Iwan, 11;
100. Łaszyn Mykyta, 68;
101. Łaszyn Mychajło, 3;
102. Łaszyn Mychajo, 2;
103. Łaszyn Stepan, 75;
104. Łebedowycz Bogdan, 2‑month—old;
105. Łebedowycz Wasyl, 59;
106. Łebedowycz Marija, 23;
107. Łeśkiw Jewa, 42;
108. Łeśkiw Jasafat, 7;
109. Mańkiw Dmytro, 48;
110. Melnyk Wołodymyr, 10;
111. Melnyk Iwan, 13;
112. Melnyk Iwan, 14;
113. Pyłypeć Iwan, 50;
114. Płazmo Mykoła, 45;
115. Rebizant Anna, 45;
116. Rebizant Iwan, 15;
117. Rebizant Kateryna, 33;
118. Rebizant Kateryna, 49;
119. Rebizant Mychajło, 56;
120. Rebizant Jurij, 46;
121. Rebizant Jarosław, 2;
122. Syhłowa Jewa, 51;
123. Syhłowy Wasyl, 15;
124. Syhłowy Dmytro, 48;
125. Syhłowy Hryhorij, 53;
126. Syhłowy Iwan, 61;
127. Syhłowy Teodor, 52;
128. Skorupa Hałyna, 18, b. in Cieszanów, married in Żuków village;
129. Sucharyna Mychajło, 128;
130. Terech Stepan, życia 54;
131. Terech Wasyl, 15;
132. Tomkiw Roman, 27;
133. Tomkiw Jurij, 56;
134. Tymeć Iwan, 51 (secondary education);
135. Frankiwski Wasyl, 49;
136. Frankiwski Jurij, 41;
137. Cyca Dmytro, 51;
138. Bumbar Iwan, 60;
139. Bumbar Iwan, 57;
[…] During the mentioned action, they surrounded the village at night. In the early days they started to approach the village, firing all kinds of firearms with hurricane fire in order to panic the village. The villagers began to run away in all directions and hide wherever they could. After entering the village, Poles started to burn houses, of course robbing them well earlier and shooting people from the forest to the church, regardless of the difference between women, men, children, and only men behind the church. From the corpses, as well as women who were still alive, they removed shoes and clothes. They shouted to the women: «Have your a self–ruling Ukraine! Pray to your Flag! Where are yours from the forest? What are they not defending you?» etc. After the action, they went towards Żukowo, to Cieszanów and Lubaczów. 29 people were injured that day”.
source: „Informacija pro ukrajinśki seła Zakerzonnia ta jich meszkanciw, szczo postradały w rezultati polśkych napadiw”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 1, p. 921—926
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]
Fragment of Jewa Fil's memoirs about the murder of Gorajec on Ukrainians by a branch of the KBW and Polish civilians:
„In the morning of April 6, when it became light, we heard shots from heavy weapons. The men ran away and the Poles shot everyone. Uncle flew to the neighboring cellar, uncle covered him with age and stalks. She remembered the suitcase of clothes in the shed. She left with a suitcase and a bandit is standing in front of her with a gun in his hands:
— «I will still go get the children, because they are in the basement».
She came to us pale with fear and said:
— «Children, they already wanted to kill me in the yard».
From there you hear:
— «Get out, because I'm shooting!»
Uncle leaves first, we follow her. At the end, Eugenia Wachnianyn:
— «Follow the road to the river».
There were other people there and more were coming. A crying Nastia Terech came and says:
— «They killed our father at home, they set fire to the house».
The murdered Terech is an 80‑year‑old very nice old man. Before our eyes, the village is burning, the fire crackles, and the murderer is walking along the path. Sometimes they come up to our people shouting:
— «Ukraine is on fire! You s… of b…!».
We stand as petrified. One of them tells me to take off my shoes, beats with the butt, then walks away with the shoes. Through our meadows a herd of cows and sheep, let down because they would burn up, goes. One soldier tells me to move them.
I go back to people. We know nothing about what is happening behind the church. The murderous pack is getting ready to depart […] towards Kaczory, Pidmłyn. There they murdered and burned Biłych, Tymców, Hołówków, and Mańka. Then they completely left. Our self–defense boys cut their way, fired and panicked, but there weren't enough of them to fight the two companies.
We ran from our house to save something. The floor was on fire, it was flooded. However, all the farm buildings burned down. People bring the news that there are many murdered behind the church, most of them in Billy's garden, old men, children and women. On our side, women and children were not murdered.
Uncle was safe. We are looking for a neighbor, Kaczor, we find him dead with Pidmłynem, in the woods. Iwan Biły escaped from Pidmłyn to the village and was killed near the cemetery. There were other killed people lying in the woods.
My friend Marijka Syhłowa came and told us to go and have a look at the countryside. Sodom and Gomorrah. We went to the garden of the mayor of Billy. Horror. People are lying on top of each other. Everyone is dead. There is a young mother, Marija Kurij with a one‑year‑old child, a young mother, Maria Łebedowycz, with a six—month—old son, and also Biły, his wife, twelve‑year‑old son and stepson Hrycyk. Total 60 people.
We go further. The yard of Gacha, killed at the end of July. Everything burned down there, Gacha's wife fried in the barn, bones burnt, even a bucket burnt.
The Kołosiwski house is smoldering, where the whole family is lying: father, mother and daughter, on whose legs you can see huge yellow blisters from the fire. Fried bodies give off a bad smell.
We're going to see Mr. Łebedowycz. Silence. Łebedowycz is lying behind the barn, the skull has fallen out of the head. We go behind the barn and find the 18‑year‑old Hala Skorupka from Cieszanów. So pretty, her mouth and eyes are closed. You can't see where the ball has fallen. Maybe she is alive? No, she's dead. Next to her is a green periwinkle. We weave a garland over her head. We go back to the village. Hala's mother is coming, she is crying, but she still doesn't know anything about her daughter. Still, the truth must be told:
— «Ma'am, your daughter was killed in the forest».
— «My heart has felt it, has felt it», the woman cried, breaking her hands.
We go further. The village is burning down, black chimneys are sticking up. People are getting ready for the funeral. No boards, no cart, Mother Earth covered them all. Eternal rest for those buried on the Annunciation on April 7, 1946! […]
Together with Marijka Sygłowa, we lived in Łówcza. We started teaching there. The troops, however, come there as well. At night we go out to the woods. There are also residents of Gorajczyce, as well as Marijka from Łówcza, who comes from the house where we lived. She quickly returned from the forest. I can still remember her brushing the braids, arranging them with rollers on her head, and in two days we hear that this beauty is already dead”.
source: „Spohad Jewy Fil (diwocze prizwyszcze Łaszyn) narodżenoji 1925 roku w Horajci Lubacziwśkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 141—144
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
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min. 174
max. 174
ref. no:
11867
date:
1945.08
site
description
general info
Gorajec
Fragment of Ivan Horajski's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Dzików Stary and Dzików Nowy by members of MO, UB and soldiers of the Polish Army
„In August 1945 they murdered a deacon from Gorajec”.
source: Horajski I., „Spomyny”, b.m., b.d., b.p.; in: Bogdan Huk's archive, 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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10693
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Gorajec
(in the vicinity)
Eighteen‑year‑old Marian Nepelski disappeared without a trace on his way to Narol. Years later it turned out that he had been murdered in the vicinity of Gorajec.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Murder by Ukrainian gangs in Nowiny Horynieckie ”; in: portal: Horyniec Zdrój — web page: na.horyniec.info [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11865
date:
1944–1945
site
description
general info
Gorajec
Fragment of Jewa Fil's memoirs about the murder of Gorajec on Ukrainians by a branch of the KBW [Interrnal Security Corps] and Polish civilians:
„An order came to go to the horse inspection. People went, although some said they might not come back. And Wasyl Kurdupel and the man called Zahraj did not come back. My younger sister went from us with two horses. She came back, but the horses were sacrificed to the new hosts of Poland. At the Komarów house, my wife was to give birth, and because something was wrong, her husband took her to the hospital in Lubaczów. A daughter was born. Only my mother, Anna, died of an infection. The husband went to pick up the dead and alive, but he did not come back: near Cieszanów they tormented him when he returned”.
source: „Spohad Jewy Fil (diwocze prizwyszcze Łaszyn) narodżenoji 1925 roku w Horajci Lubacziwśkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 141—144
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:
11866
date:
1946.05
site
description
general info
Gorajec
May (?) 1946, [typescript] — Excerpt from a report by Michał Borys 'Żan', a political clerk from the 2nd District of Zakerzonya Region, about the murders of Ukrainians in Chotylub:
„During the action in the village of Gorajec, Marchewka Andrij, 25, [from Chotylub] was murdered”.
source: „Informacija pro ukrajinśki seła ta ich meszkanciw, szczo postradały w rezultati polśkych napadiw na terenach Jarosławszczyny ta Lubacziwszczyny protiahom 1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 956, 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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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