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GENOCIDIUM ATROX

GENOCIDE perpetrated by UKRAINIANS on POLES

Data for 1943–1947

Site

II Republic of Poland

Horyniec

Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.

contemporary

Horyniec-Zdrój

Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland

Murders

Perpetrators:

Ukrainians

Victims:

Poles

Number of victims:

min.:

30

max.:

138

Perpetrators:

Poles

Victims:

Ukrainians

Number of victims:

min.:

4

max.:

38

Location

link to GOOGLE MAPS

events (incidents)

ref. no:

06396

date:

1944.04.12

site

description

general info

Horyniec

The UPA murdered 41‑year‑old Michał Bąk.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

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:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

07039

date:

1944.05.12

site

description

general info

Horyniec

The UPA murdered Michał Bąk.

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:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

07047

date:

1944.05.13

site

description

general info

Horyniec

The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles, including a woman.

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:

12251

date:

1944.09

site

description

general info

Horyniec

between/on the road between

Podemszczyzna

Excerpt from the memoirs of Ivan Andrijowycz Zalaski, born in in 1917 in Tymce about the murder of 33 Ukrainians from the Podemszczyzna by members of the Citizens' Militia:
In the fall of 1944, after the Soviets had come to our lands, Poles returned from across the San. The Soviet army went to the West, and Polish authorities began to form, Polish militia posts in the nearby villages of Basznia Dolna and Puhacze. The policemen arrested Ukrainians and abused them  […] One Sunday in September, after lunch, Poles surrounded the Podemszczyzna, lit a wooden church (people managed to save only some of them). They were going to the countryside and picking up Ukrainians, men. They managed to catch 33 people. In the evening they took everyone through the hamlet Puhacze to Horyniec. They dropped them off in front of the forest and shot them all. It happened not far from the villages of Puhacze, Krzywe, Tymce”.

source: Załuśkyj I. A., „Peresełennia do URSR z parafii Basznia Dolisznia”; in: „Lubachivshchyna Our Land”, in: No. 2, Lviv 2001, p. 71

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:

33

min. 33

max. 33

ref. no:

08101

date:

1944.10.01

site

description

general info

Horyniec

The Ukrainians murdered Cecylia Sopyło. Others mention the village of Świdnica Horyniecka.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 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:

11900

date:

1944.10.31

site

description

general info

Horyniec

between/on the road between

Lubaczów

May (?) 1946, [typescript] — Fragment of a report by an unknown clerk from District II of the Zakerzonya Region about the murders of Ukrainians in Werchrata:
On October 31, 1944, MO from Horyniec arrested a peasant, Wolf Teodor, 30, in the Nimycia hamlet. to Horyniec, and from there they were transported to Lubaczów. On the way they shot him and threw him into the water.

source: „Informacija pro ukrajinśki seła 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. 2, p. 929, 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:

08587

date:

1944.12.03

site

description

general info

Horyniec

On December 3, 1944, they murdered the policeman Adam Hałuch, 25.

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:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

11898

date:

1945.03.03

site

description

general info

Horyniec

Excerpt from the memoirs of Hanna Żeniuch, Sofia Swystoniuk, Mykola Żeniucha about the murder of priest Petra Wolanowycz in Horyniec by members of MO:
In December, a priest [Petro Wolanowycz] from monks came to us [to Radruż], served our village and Horyniec. He lived in Horyniec because he was afraid to live in our village  […] He only lived there for 3 months, because in February 1945 the Polish police came and shot him in bed. He was buried in Horyniec”.

source: Żeniuch H., Swystoniuk S., Żeniuch M., „Seło na hranyci”; in: „Lubachivshchyna Our Land”, in: No. 1, Lviv 2000, p. 52

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]

Fragments of K. Wasylkewycz's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Sucha Wola and other villages by soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces, members of MO and gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
In Horyniec they shot Father Petr Wolanowycz, when on their order he gave them supper and turned to the sideboard. for vodka when he got hit in the head from behind”.

source: Wasylkewycz K., „Spohady”, b.m., b.d.; in: Bogdan Huk's archive, in: , p. 23, 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]

According to Polish sources, he «spread hatred towards Poles».
«During the sermon in March 1943  […] he screamed from the pulpit on a winter Sunday:
Ukr.‹Lude beryte serpy i kosy, bo czas żnyw ide› (Eng.‹People, take sickles and scythes, because it's harvest time›)
».
He was to claim that speaking Polish is a mortal sin.
At one of the village meetings, he was also supposed to say that «the time has come for the Poles to happen to the Jews».
After the defeat of the Germans and the commencement of the Russian occupation in 1944, he was murdered in cold blood — during a snack that he prepared himself — by a Commie–Nazi activist of the Polish People's Republic (a state created by the Russians in areas previously occupied by the Germans), a member of the criminal UB, the Polish unit of the Russian NKVD (according to Ukrainian sources the murderers were two UB/militiamen from Oleszyce, where he had previously ministered)
”.

source: GTKRK, „Fr Piotr Wolanowycz”; in: portal: «The White Book». Martyrology of the clergy - Poland. XX century (1914-1989), St Sigismund parish in Słomczyn — web page: www.swzygmunt.knc.pl [accessible: 2020.03.15]

perpetrators

Poles

victims

Ukrainians

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

09593

date:

1945.03.27–1945.03.28

site

description

general info

Kureń „Zalizniaka” liquidated 18 posts of the Civic Militia, 30 militiamen were killed and 10 were abducted and murdered. From 43 to 72 people of the Polish civilian population were murdered. These were posts in the following towns: Dzików Stary, Podemszczyzna, Horyniec, Zalesie, Basznia Dolna, Łówcza, Futory, Nowa Grobla, Brusno Nowe, Krowica, Puchacze, Chotylub, Wólka Horyniecka, Zapałów, Bichale, Łaszki, Płazów, and Cewków.

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:

83 – 112

min. 83

max. 112

ref. no:

09600

date:

1945.03.28

site

description

general info

Horyniec

(forestry inspectorate)

Wojciech Leńczuk, a gamekeeper, was murdered by the UPA.

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:

09815

date:

1945.04.21

site

description

general info

Horyniec

The Ukrainians murdered the policeman Stanisław Krzych, 43.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; 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:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

09945

date:

1945.05.13

site

description

general info

Horyniec

The Ukrainians murdered Katarzyna Tymiec, 62.

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:

10297

date:

1945.09.20

site

description

general info

Horyniec

The UPA murdered a soldier of 7 pp. 3 DP wide by Bruno Dorecki.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1945”; 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:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

10329

date:

1945.10.04

site

description

general info

Horyniec

In the area of Horyniec, they murdered a soldier of 7 pp. 3 DP Sgt. Józef Pasek.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1945”; 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:

7

min. 7

max. 7

ref. no:

10473

date:

1945.12.04

site

description

general info

Horyniec

(in the vicinity)

On December 4, 1945, J. Pokrzywa writes: „following the insured march, the 3rd battalion of the 8th infantry regiment was moving from Horyniec to the village of Chmiele. When the officers broke away from the column, shots from the ravine rained unexpectedly. Captain Zastocki was struck to death  […] Second Lieutenant Feliks Straszewski, a political officer, also died  […] The platoon commanders: Ensign Franciszek Mateja and Second Lieutenant Stanisław Kuźma were mortally wounded  […] In addition, lieutenant Jan Sakowicz, two political officers, Lieutenant Bronisław Kuriata and second lieutenant Mieczysław Jędrasik and Corporal Władysław Siecina”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Motyka Grzegorz, „So it was in Bieszczady. Polish-Ukrainian battles in 1943-1948.”, in: Volumen Publishing House, Warsaw 1999, Warsaw 1999, p. 338—339

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

4

min. 4

max. 4

ref. no:

11899

date:

1945.12.29

site

description

general info

Horyniec

May (?) 1946, [typescript] — Fragment of a report by an unknown clerk from District II of the Zakerzonya Region about the murders of Ukrainians in Werchrata:
On December 29, 1945, at 23.00, the Polish Army in the number of 100 people came to the village of Werchrata, where they arrested 11 men  […] The arrested were taken to Horyniec, and from there to Lubaczów. In Horyniec they were beating everyone so cruelly that 3 died immediately of torture, and they were:
Hryniuk Wasyl — 25 years old;
Szuper Mychajło — 15 years old;
Juśkiewicz Onyszko — age 41
”.

source: „Informacija pro ukrajinśki seła 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. 2, p. 929, 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:

11065

date:

1946.06.09

site

description

general info

Horyniec

In the village of Horyniec, poviat Lubaczów, [the Ukrainians] murdered the Polish Army soldier Henryk Bronikowski, 21.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]

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:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

11208

date:

1946.07

site

description

general info

Horyniec

In July 1946, [the Ukrainians] murdered the Polish Army officer Stanisław Gilowski.

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]

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.24]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

11437

date:

1946

site

description

general info

Horyniec

In 1946, the UPA murdered the Polish Army soldier Ludwik Gilowski.

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]

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1946 and in 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

11605

date:

1947.06.15

site

description

general info

Horyniec

Ukrainians murdered Józef Greń, b. 1906

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

11619

date:

1947.07.13

site

description

general info

Horyniec

The Ukrainians murdered Antoni Zamkowicz.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]

On July 13, 1947, in the village of Świdnica Horyniecka, poviat Lubaczów, [the Banderites] murdered Antoni Zamkołowicz (or Zamkowicz), 24‑years‑old.

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]

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

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  1. Lack of info about the perpetrators in the description of a given event (Incident) indicates that the blame should be attributed to the perpetrators listed in general info section.
  2. The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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  4. Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
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