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
Hrebenne
Rawa Ruska pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Tomaszów Lubelski cou., Lublin voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
27
max.:
27
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
1
max.:
2
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11654
date:
1944–1947
site
description
general info
Hrebenne
[Banderites] murdered 19 Poles.
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:
19
min. 19
max. 19
ref. no:
06725
date:
1944.04
site
description
general info
Hrebenne
In April 1944, the UPA murdered Wawrzusik Wojciech, 70, the only one who remained in the village, and burned down all Polish abandoned farms.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09468
date:
1945.02.28
site
description
general info
Hrebenne
The UPA killed 4 Poles with bayonets.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
11901
date:
1945.03.28
site
description
general info
Fragment of an interview with Hryhorija Piziur, born in 1929 in Hrebenny about the murders on the inhabitants of this village by Polish Army soldiers:
„[In Hrebenny there was an underground member with the pseudonym 'Bajda', and his name was Stefan Piziur, son of Wasyl […] The Poles killed his nephew.
— «Who it was?»
— «Mykhailo Piziur, son of Andriy».
— «Did he belong to the UPA?»
— «He didn't, he was still small, young. It was 1946» […]
— «And how did it happen that they killed this Mykhaila?»
— « We ran away together… The Poles were making a manhunt, they wanted to take them to Ukraine, people fled. In the forest, everyone was with carts, with pigs, and slept there, they built dugouts. And then [the Poles] made a manhunt, it was on March 28 at 9.00 They circled the forest and started it all, fury, burn it all…»
— «And what forest was it in?»
— «Between Hrebenny and Werchratą. They launched a hunt on the road between Tomaszów and Lviv. They made an ambush. We all ran away from Lipka, from Horajów, from Bożyków towards Korn. We ran to the road, we see that there is an army on horses and there are tankettes. We are back. I quickly threw away what was unnecessary and climbed onto the spruce, I became attached. And he climbed under the root. The military began to fly. A military man came, a kabewiak [i.e. a member of Commie–Nazi Internal Security Corps KBW] and…»
— «How did you know it was a kabewiak?»
— «Because they had navy blue wrappers. Kabewiak shouted at him: ‹Hands up!›. He let go of the burst and killed him»”.
source: „Zapis magnetofonowy rozmowy z Hryhorijem Piziurem z 1994 roku”; in: Bogdan Huk's archive
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:
11902
date:
1945.03.28
site
description
general info
Hrebenne
Fragment of an interview with Hryhorija Piziur, born in 1929 in Hrebenny about the murders on the inhabitants of this village by Polish Army soldiers:
„— «Did they kill anyone else during this raid […] ?»
— «They didn't kill any more in the forest then. They only killed one boy in Hrebenne, Lewka Theodore».
— «During this raid?»
— «During the same raid, only he was in the village. They killed him in the yard, so innocently. They just came and shot and everything».
— «How old was he?»
— «He was from 1922, then he was around 25, 26 years old»”.
source: „Zapis magnetofonowy rozmowy z Hryhorijem Piziurem z 1994 roku”; in: Bogdan Huk's archive
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:
10468
date:
1945.12.01
site
description
general info
Hrebenne
The UPA murdered Michał Humenny in the forest. His body was found after 3 days with marks of stab wounds with bayonets and a tight rope around his neck.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 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:
10988
date:
1946.04.01–1946.04.30
site
description
general info
Hrebenne
In the village of Hrebenne, poviat Tomaszów Lubelski, Jan Kozak was beaten, taken to the forest and buried alive in a pit [by the Ukrainians].
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: „Information Bulletin of the Institute of National Remembrance”, in: 065/9/1
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11112
date:
1946.06
site
description
general info
Hrebenne
In the village of Hrebenne, poviat Tomaszów Lubelski, Marian Walczak was abducted [by the Ukrainians] and all traces of him were lost.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: „Information Bulletin of the Institute of National Remembrance”, in: 065/9/1
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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