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
Hoczew
Lesko pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lesko cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
41
max.:
41
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
1
max.:
1
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07501
date:
1944.06
site
description
general info
Hoczew
The UPA threw hand grenades into the church during the mass, killing 10 Poles and wounding 8.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
07834
date:
1944.07.01–1944.08.31
site
description
general info
Hoczew
[The Ukrainians] murdered 15 Poles in the hamlet of the village. J. Keller in his account to Grzegorz Motyce claims that […] during the massacre of a small hamlet near Hoczwia, they crucified small children on the walls. Motyka states that these „accounts raise” doubts. The murders of Poles in Hoczew and the neighboring hamlet were probably the UPA's retaliation for helping Home Army AK partisans from the KN—23 unit during the crossing of the San River and for their supplies.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „UPA in Bieszczady”, in: ed. II, Nortom publishing house, Wroclaw 2010, p. 24—25
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
15
min. 15
max. 15
ref. no:
09936
date:
1945.05.10
site
description
general info
Hoczew
The Ukrainians murdered Antoni Herbetko.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 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:
10063
date:
1945.06.07
site
description
general info
Hoczew
The grave of Wojciech Jantas, 43, and Jan Jantas, b. On June 7, 1931 murdered on June 7, 1945 by UPA gangs. On that day, Jan Jantas was 14 years old.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „UPA in Bieszczady”, in: ed. II, Nortom publishing house, Wroclaw 2010, p. 339
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
10490
date:
1945.12.19
site
description
general info
Hoczew
(in the vicinity)
The UPA gang attacked the passing soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces on the Lesko–Hoczew route. As a result of the attack, two soldiers were killed and two wounded.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Prus Edward, „Operation "Vistula"”, in: ed. IV, Wroclaw 2006, p. 273
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11140
date:
1946.01.11
site
description
general info
Hoczew
In the village of Hoczew, poviat Lesko, the UPA murdered 5 Poles, burned down the commune office, school, post office and the bridge.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1946”; in: „Borderlands Information Service” — web page: ksi.btx.pl [accessible: 2021.06.18]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
11892
date:
1946.03.18
site
description
general info
Hoczew
Excerpt from the situational report of the OUN reporter Stepan Golasz 'Mar' from the 'Beskid' district about a murder by Polish Army soldiers in Hoczew:
„On March 18, 1946, the funeral of one farmer, murdered by Poles in a forest near Zagórze, took place in the village of Hoczew”.
source: „Wisti z terenu za czas wid 1.3 – 1.4.1946”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 75, 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:
10999
date:
1946.05.06–1946.05.07
site
description
general info
Hoczew
In the village of Hoczew, poviat Lesko, [on the night of May 6—7, 1946] Antoni Herbetko was murdered by the SB‑OUN militia [OUN Security Forces].
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11008
date:
1946.05.11
site
description
general info
Hoczew
In the village of Hoczew, poviat Lesko, the UPA murdered 5 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
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