Fragment of Josyf Bak's memoirs about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Jawornik Ruski:
„At that time [during the occupation — BH] there was a Ukrainian auxiliary police station in Jawornik Ruski. It was he who became the target of an attack on April 24, 1944 by an organized Polish gang, as a result of which the station was burned down, 3 policemen were injured, 3 farmers were killed, 5 houses were burned down. With this action, the Poles seemed to initiate a whole series of later attacks on Jawornik Ruski and its hamlets”.

source: Bak J., „Poruby – Huta – Jawirnyk Ruśkyj (do 1947 roku)”; in: „Ukrajinśkyj Almanach”, in: 1999, p. 240, 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]

In Bachów, Horta, Jabłonica Ruska, Jawornik, Kotów, Obarzyn, Piątkowa, Poręby, Siedliska, Sufczyn, Ulucz, Zahutyn villages in Przemyśl county murders committed by the Ukrainians on the Polish population took place

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

Excerpt from a field report by an OUN clerk about the murders of […] Ukrainians in Jawornik Ruski by MO members:
„On 2 February 1945, the militia from Przemyśl, Rzeszów, Borownica and nearby posts, in the number of about 80 people, made a jump to Jawornik Ruski  […] Having passed Zahuty, they approached to the manor house between Zahuta and Netrebka, and they encircled it. Our typist 'Tania' — Melnyk Kateryna worked at the manor. There was also a subdistrict from Jawornik 'Kwaka' — Krysak Jewstachij. The militia took them with them  […] At the end of the village, the participants of the training [organized by the OUN] welcomed them with fire. There was a commotion among the policemen, which the arresters wanted to take advantage of, but one policeman, seeing that they were escaping, shot both of them.

source: „Wisti z terenu”, b.d.; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 2, sh. 287

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 a field report by an OUN clerk about the murders of […] Ukrainians in Jawornik Ruski by MO members:
„On 5 February 1945, 47 policemen came to the village of Jawornik Ruski  […] They shot 2 Ukrainians”.

source: „Wisti z terenu”, b.d.; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 2, sh. 287

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]

During the midnight attack, the UPA murdered 7 Poles by throwing them alive into a well: a family of 5 with 3 children and a married couple.

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

Excerpt from a field report by an OUN clerk about the murders of […] Ukrainians in Jawornik Ruski by MO members:
„On 9 February 1945, 25 policemen made a jump to the village of Jawornik [Ruski]. They killed 5 people. In addition, they hurt a woman and gouged out two Ukrainians' eyes.

source: „Wisti z terenu”, b.d.; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 2, sh. 287

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 Taras Mychna's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Jawornik Ruski by members of MO from Borownica and Polish Army soldiers:
„My memory comes back to my father for the second time, when I am 8 years old. Winter, frost, snow, February 8, 1945. A terrible scream and a mother's cry. They brought my father in a sleigh. Mom falls on his body. Me and the younger Mykola do not know what happened, but when mum cries, we also start. Polish soldiers come, do not let us cry, order them to be buried quickly, because if not «we will shoot all». My mother wraps herself around with something, carries an embroidered towel and covers the frozen body of my father  […]
The UPA defended us as best they could, they defended us by those who burned down our village. Even a child could understand who was fair and who was not. I, too, knew it very well then. How could you not know? After all, they murdered Roman, Myron's father (he hid as far as Groszówka, but when they burned her, they killed him as well); they killed Nałepa, Yevhen's father; the sick grandfather Stepan Tycki was killed on the bed; they killed Krysak, father of Danusia and Stefcia; Myron's grandmother was hit with a rifle by Paływoda z Rybny, then their head was cut off and thrown into the well. It happened during the second heist” .

source: „Spohad Tarasa Mychna narodżenoji 1937 roku”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 568—571

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]

On February 16, the joined groups of RyszardKotwicki „Blind” from Borownica and Grodecki, with a total of 150–200 people, attacked the villages of Jawornik Ruski, Rohatyn, Piątkową and the hamlets of Poruty and Zahuty.

source: Pisuliński Jan, „The Polish-Ukrainian conflict in the Przemyśl poviat in winter and spring 1945 and the participation of Roman Kisiel 'Vulture' group in it” — web page: www.polska1918-89.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Excerpt from a field report by the OUN clerk about the murders of […] Ukrainians in Jawornik Ruski by MO members:
„On February 16, 1945, the militia who came from Rzeszów together with the police from Borownica made a jump to the hamlets of Jawornik [Ruski] Rybne, Netrebka, Zahuty  […] In Zahuty, they robbed several farmers and burned down two houses. In addition, they killed 3 Ukrainians. From Zahuty they went to Netrebka, where they also heavily robbed the inhabitants, taking clothes, grain and killing 3 Ukrainians  […] They destroyed Rybne the most. They completely burned down 3 farms and killed 10 Ukrainians”.

source: „Wisti z terenu”, b.d.; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 2, sh. 287

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 Josyf Bak's memoirs about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Jawornik Ruski:
„Particularly noteworthy is the tragic event of February 16, 1946. As a result of the attack on Jawornik Ruski, beastly bandits were murdered 27 Ukrainian inhabitants. They were:
Bak Kateryna,
Bak Roman,
Bak Stepan,
Hawrylak Wołodymyr,
Hawrylak Jakiw,
Hałuszka Ostap,
Duchniak Wołodymyr,
Korostyńska Anastazija,
Krysak Stepan,
Krymiński Mykoła,
Kucab Petro,
Łech Roman,
Łech Tadej,
Metyk Anna,
Metyk Stepan,
Mychno Sofija,
Nahirny Stepan,
Nyżnyk Petro,
Ołeniak Mykoła,
Paliwoda Paraskewija,
Paliwoda Tymotej i
Teleśnicka Sofija from Paliwoda.
Probably all of them were buried in a mass grave in the Ukrainian cemetery near the church in Jawornik Ruski”.

source: Bak J., „Poruby – Huta – Jawirnyk Ruśkyj (do 1947 roku)”; in: „Ukrajinśkyj Almanach”, in: 1999, p. 240, 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]

Fragment of Taras Mychna's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Jawornik Ruski by members of MO from Borownica and Polish Army soldiers:
„My memory dates back only to the beginning of the 1940s. At that time, people continued to pray in their church, taught children at their school, had the police. Everything looked normal, but the evil is not sleeping. They are invented by Poles from Borownica and Dylągowa. They come up with various provocations and attacks. They attack, among others, our police in Jawornik. These were bandits, and not patriotic deeds, they brought murder and fire. She watched and led the Home Army from the center in Dynów, then the army command in Bircza, the militia from Sanok. With their consent and in accordance with their plan, in Jawornik Ruski, on February 8 and 15, 1945, Roman Bak, Kateryna Bak, Stepan Bak, Jakiw Hawrylak, Josyp Hałuszka, Josyp Haszyński, Stefanija Haszyńska, Ołena Haszyńska, Wołodymyr Duchniak, and Mykola perish in a burned village. Krymiński, Apolonia Korosteńska, Stefan Krysak, Petro Kucab, Roman Łech, Tadej Łech, Sofija Mychno, Nestor Makhno (my father, born in 1912), Anna Metyk, Stepan Metyk, Petro Nyżnyk, Stepan Nahirny, Mykoła Ołenycz, Paraskewija Tełesnycka, Paraskewija Paływoda, Tomasz Paływoda, Mychajło Nałepa, Mychajło Baczyk, Dmytro Soroczak, an unknown girl, an unknown man (the last 5 people are not on the tombstone)”.

source: „Spohad Tarasa Mychna narodżenoji 1937 roku”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 568—571

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 Myron Paliwoda's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Jawornik Ruski by members of MO from Borownica and residents of neighboring Polish villages:
„it's February 2, 1945, the war is still going on. The Russian army is stationed in the village  […] After two weeks, the Ukrainian villages of Poruby, Zahuty, Jawornik Ruski, Żohatyn and Piątkowa are attacked in the early morning hours. The robbery was carried out in several groups at the same time. Everywhere the attackers started from the shore, driving the survivors into the 'cauldron'. The attack was carried out by the combined forces of Kotwicki and Grodecki, some 150–200 men in total. On that dramatic day, Kotwicki commanded the attack on the villages of Żohatyn and Piątkową, while Grodecki commanded the others, namely Netrebka, Zahuty and Jawornik Ruski. On that day, about 30 people died in my town: men, women and children, old people, including several native Poles. I quote the names of the victims that my father took with the sleigh to the cemetery: Włodzimierz Hawrylak, Włodzimierz Duchniak, Stefan Głuszyk, Mikołaj Olenicz, Piotr Niżnik, Mikołaj Krzemiński, Jakub Hawrylak, Stefan Nahirnyj, Józef Hałuszka, Józef Gaszyński, Stefania Gaszyńska, Helena Gaszyńska, Roman Bak, Katarzyna Bak, Stefan Bak, Zofia Michno, Roman Lech, Tadeusz Lech, Anastazja Korostańska, Zofia Teleśnicka, Anna Metyk, Stefan Metyk, Stefan Krysak, Paraskewia Paliwoda, Tomasz Paliwoda, Michał Nalepa, Nestor Machno and Michał Baczyk.
They died in different ways. Some were shot, others were wounded and thrown into fire, others were pierced alive with bayonets. It looked like this in our backyard. My mother, mother and grandmother were led out of the house and ordered to take documents with me, that is, then the Kennel Clubs. We were taken to a manure dump and ordered to choose a grave in this dung, a hole where they were supposed to shoot us. I remember my grandma doing it with a pitchfork, while my mother, apparently in a fit of fear, was tearing the hole open with her hands. The torturers stood over us and harassed them with the words:
— «Well, now, f… Ukrainian, say Our Father, because your last hour has come».
Meanwhile, one of them shouts:
— «Not here, against the wall with them!».
At the wall of the house, we were told to undress and dissipate. My mother and me were left in front of the house, and my grandmother was led to the barn. My mother knew some of the attackers by name, and she began to ask for their lives. A resident of Borownica named Pocałuń was supposed to shoot us, but a man named Pele was passing through our yard. He said these words, turning the barrel over full of it:
— «Leave her alone, damn them, I just feel sorry for the boy».
At that time, my grandmother was near the barn, but then she was led near an unfinished well, covered flush with the ground with a wooden lid. There, in front of our eyes, she was hit on the back of the head with the Mauser butt. Grandma fell in the snow. The lid was opened. One of them took the bayonet off the rifle and slit his grandmother's head while summoning help, standing with his feet on her back. They took his feet and threw him into the well  […]
After a while, Piotr Kucab was led out of the neighboring house and sent a whole series in his back so that his entire chest was torn out. They rolled him into a nearby stream”.

source: „Spohad Myrona Paływody”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 578

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 Stefania Turczyk's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Jawornik by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„We were safe as long as the Russians were sitting on the property. After they left, the Poles had the power and did what they wanted. We were defenseless. They murdered my aunt's two sons: Volodymyr Hawrylak and Mykołaj Hawrylak. They both ran but did not escape”.

source: „Spohad Stefaniji Turczyk (diwocze prizwyszcze Korostenśka) narodżenoji 1920 roku w Jawirnyku Ruśkomu Dobromylśkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 567—568

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 Stefania Kupczyk's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Jawornik Ruski by members of MO from Borownica and Polish Army soldiers:
„Hanka Paliwoda got married to Borownica. She told us that his son–in–law, 'the Blind', had come to Bąkowski. His name was Kotwicki, he commanded a gang of Borownica robbing our village.
In the winter of 1944–1945, we went to live in Poręby  […] The next day we heard a scream from Jawornik. Jawornik is on fire! People said that the band of the 'Blind' was burning the countryside, murdering people. After a few days, my mother told me that they had killed my father.
It was like this. At the end of the solid 'Blind', he went with his gang through the woods from Borownica to Jawornik Ruski. That day, father, mother, sister Sofija and grandmother Anastazija were at home. Dad's teeth hurt. My mother advised him to run away, but he said:
— «I have a toothache… I haven't done anything wrong to anyone, so why should I hide?»
He stayed at home. He was sitting at the table when drunk bandits stormed into him:
— «Go and throw the hay! We will burn the barn!»
— «When the barn burns, let the hay burn too», replied Papa.
The bandits beat him and then led him outside. They took him to the barn and shot him there, set the barn on fire and Dad burned down  […]
On that day, the bandits murdered a lot of people. Four people were killed at Haszyński's, two (parents) in Baka, Anastazija Chorostyńska, Petra Kucaba, and Sofiju Mychno. People talked for a long time about how Sofia Tełesnicka was murdered. The bandits chopped off her head and threw her body into a well  […]
The widow Lech lived in Zmułyska near Borownica with three children: Tadej, Józef and Ola. Her husband was killed at the front. In the fall of 1945, bandits murdered her son Tadej. He was lying in the cemetery, his eyes gouged out, his ears and nose cut off, terribly bruised  […]
In the winter of 1944–1945, the Polish Army came. We didn't know why, but we sensed poverty, so we ran to the forest, to the empty house of Kucab, who [during the 'Blind's' attacks] said that he would not run away because they would rob him. And they robbed him and shot Kucaba himself”.

source: „Czy to czas buw takyj? Spohad Stefaniji Kupczyk (z domu Lech) perekazanyj Stańkom Kołesarem”; in: „Our Word”, in: No. 37, 2004, p. 9

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 memories of Mrs. Kość (maiden name Benko) about the murder of 3 Ukrainians by members of MO from Borownica and Bircza:
„At the turn of 1944—1945, Kotwicki came from the east, settled in Borownica and married an 18‑year‑old girl, a Ukrainian, Bańkiwska from Jawornik.
Kotwicki himself shot Tomek Paływoda (his wife's uncle) and his wife Paraskewia née Tełeśnicki  […]
Ludwik Grodecki, the commander of the MO from Bircza, with an ax he chopped off the head of Sifija Paływica, his sister by Kotwica Paraskewica by his sister Paraskewica. He threw the head and body of Sofia Tełeśnicka into the well, then threw the burr behind it and shot into the well a few more times”.

source: „Trahiczni podiji w Jawirnyku Ruśkomu i nawkołysznich sełach lutyj 1945 roku”, Zbiory M. Kozaka, 26 VII 1995; 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]

„On February 16, the combined groups of Ryszard Kotwicki «Blind» from Borownica and Grodecki, with a total of 150–200 people, attacked the villages of Jawornik Ruski, Rohatyn, Piątkową and the hamlets of Poruta and Zahuty. at least 27 people died in Jawornik”. Elsewhere: „about the same time [ie the beginning of 03.1945] eleven The Ukrainians from Jawornik Ruski were murdered on the San River, one person considered dead by the perpetrators survived the execution” – it is not known whether it is the same crime.

source: Pisuliński Jan, „The Polish-Ukrainian conflict in the Przemyśl poviat in winter and spring 1945 and the participation of Roman Kisiel 'Vulture' group in it” — web page: www.polska1918-89.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The next day, the UPA retaliated and killed seventeen people in Borownica, Jawornik, Dobrzanka, Tarnawka, and Brzezawa.

source: Pisuliński Jan, „The Polish-Ukrainian conflict in the Przemyśl poviat in winter and spring 1945 and the participation of Roman Kisiel 'Vulture' group in it” — web page: www.polska1918-89.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

In the Żohatyn commune near Bircza, from July 1944 to February 1945, 45 people died, including: 2 priests, 4 militiamen, 3 Polish soldiers, assistant to the commune secretary, gamekeeper, deputy chairman and member of the communal national council and 32 farmers; incl. in Jawornik Ruski, two Polish families were thrown into a well by the Banderites.

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

source: Piwowarczyk Grzegorz, „The real tragedy of Bircza”; in: portal: kresy.pl — web page: kresy.pl [accessible: 2018.11.04]

Fragment of Stefania Tchir's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Jawornik Ruski by the police from Borownica:
„We survived the war calmly. Nobody expected something like this to happen to us. The Polish village of Borownica was located near us. Spring 1945 came. A Polish militia was established in Borownica under the leadership of Jan Kotwicki 'Blind'. Almost every day, 20 people from Borownica attacked the surrounding Ukrainian villages. During the attack in Jawornik 'Blind' murdered Nestor Soroczak, Stefan Metryk, Mychajł Metyka, three Haszyńskis, Sofija Teleśnicka and others”.

source: „Spohad Stefaniji Tchir (diwocze prizwyszcze Metyk) narodżenoji 1921 roku w Żohatyni Dobromylśkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 201

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 situational report of the political clerk of the OUN 'Chłodny Jar' district, Petr Kawuzy 'Taras', about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Jasionów:
„On January 10, 1946  […] from Siedliska, a freak of the Polish Army, numbering over 300 people  […] The steelworks went to Jasionów, where they burnt 18 houses, robbed 2 horses and 20 pieces of horned cattle. They burned down 13 farms in Netrebka and 4 farms in Zahuty. Casualties: a woman Wiktoria Brewko was shot in Jasionów, two men were choked in the hideout (under the burnt house): Petro Dudycz and Antin Tucki. They arrested Mykola Sycz and Andrij Sycz. Mykoła Sycz was killed the next day in Jawornik, and Andrija was released after 2 days  […]
After this action, the Polish Army unit quartered at Przysada Jawornicka. He was stationed there until January 12, 1946. Meanwhile, on January 11, 1946, 20 soldiers went to Netrebka, where they took a lot of hens and arrested Volodymyr Hawrylak, whom they killed in Przysad”.

source: „Wisti z terenu [za styczeń 1946]”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 451, 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]

In the village of Jawornik Ruski, poviat Przemyśl the UPA murdered the 4–person Polish Cemgler family with 2 minor children.

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

Excerpt from the situational report of the political clerk of the OUN 'Chłodny Jar' district, Petr Kawuza 'Ruslan', about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainian in Jawornik:
„On July 3, 1946, the Polish Army from Bircza headed by the commander of MO Michalski and a deserter from the UPA unit 'Szpak' 'passed from Bircza through Rudawka, Kotów, Żohatyn forest, Żohatyn to Jawornik. They spent one hour there and killed 72‑year‑old Hryhorij Tucki (a Ukrainian)”.

source: „Wisti z terenu [za lipiec 1946]”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 512, 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]

Fragment of a field report by the SB‑OUN clerk of the 'Beskid' district, Stepan Golasz 'Mar', about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on a Ukrainian, Hryhorij Tucki in Jawornik Ruski:
„On July 5, 1946, the Polish Army branch in Bircza, headed by the commander of MO Michalski and the UPA deserter 'Szpak', went to the village of Rudawka, Kotów, a forest near Żohatyn, and went to the village of Jawornik Ruski. They spent an hour in the village, and before leaving, they shot 72‑year‑old Tucki Hryhorij, a Ukrainian”.

source: „Wisti z terenu za misiać łypeń 46”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 26, sh. 124

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 situational report of the political clerk of the OUN 'Chłodny Jar' district, Petr Kawuzy 'Ruslan', on the murder on a Ukrainian in Jawornik Ruski by Polish Army soldiers:
„On July 14, 1946, the Polish Army in the number of 300 soldiers crossed San near Siedliska, Brzozów district, and attacked after leaving the Dylągów forest at 4 o'clock to the following villages: Poręby, Huta  […] On Netrebka they burned down the house of Dmytr Klitka and threw alive into the fire Mykhaila Tucki, 65, who was escaping with a cow from a gang”.

source: „Wisti z terenu [za lipiec 1946]”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 512, 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]

In the UPA ambush, 14 young soldiers from the cadet school in Przemyśl, from the 28th Infantry Regiment were taken prisoner. Their grave was found in 2015. Dr. Andrzej Zapałowski, a historian, revealed that finding the bodies was possible only thanks to determination and private funding preliminary research by several people from Dynów Thanks to their actions, about a kilometer from Jawornik, they discovered a masked cavity with human bones.
In December 2015, a notification was submitted to the Departmental Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Rzeszów, which ordered exhumation works. In the course of works carried out in July 2016, 14 skeletons were uncovered, and probably also the place of execution, located above the 2×3m burial pit. The bodies of the murdered were thrown into it chaotically, in two layers. Scapulars were discovered next to two skeletons, the first with images of Our Lady of Częstochowa and St Anthody of Padua, the second with the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Carmel. Next to another skeleton, in the clenched phalanges of the hands, a signet ring with initials was found: the letter K was written into the larger capital H letter. The abducted Polish soldiers were mistreated before their death, as indicated by the research of specialists from the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin. Numerous traces of damage, cracks and fractures were found on the bones, which, in the opinion of the experts, resulted from gunshots and strong blows, probably beatings. This would be consistent with the information from the discovered UPA report, indicating that the soldiers of the Polish Army were interrogated and probably tortured before their death. According to the testimony of one of the witnesses questioned as part of the investigation, a group of Poles was led towards the Jawornica forest „in only underwear, without shoes, and with hands tied together”.
The research and investigation of the Institute of National Remembrance also allowed to establish that the Poles were arrested and murdered, most likely on the orders of Michał / Mychajło Duda 'Hromenka', as evidenced by the report of one of the Ukrainian commanders Wasyl Mizerny 'Ren' and explanations submitted in the criminal proceedings by Włodzimierz Szczygielski pseudonym 'Burłak', who admitted that 14 Poles had been taken prisoner during the clash, but he placed the responsibility for their murder on 'Hromenka'. According to the prosecutor of the Institute of National Remembrance, the Field Gendarmerie of the 'Hromenka' sotnya, numbering about 7 people, probably participated in the execution of Polish soldiers. However, it was not possible to even establish their personal details in general. In an interview with Polish Press Agency PAP, prosecutor Śmiechowska said that in the investigation of the crime of the UPA in Jawornik Ruski, committed in July 1946 on 14 soldiers of the 28th Infantry Regiment of the Polish Army, the classification of the crime as genocide was agreed.
„This crime shows the scale of the UPA violence against Poles” — explained the prosecutor Śmiechowska. — „The scale of these events was so enormous that these victims — 14 Polish soldiers — are, as it were, a tangible example of how people of Polish nationality were dealt with at that time”.

source: Trojan Marek, „The Institute of National Remembrance IPN identified the previously unknown victims of the crime of the UPA from Jawornik Ruski – they are soldiers of the Polish Army”; in: portal: Kresy.pl, in: 08.02.2019 — web page: kresy.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]

Extract from the OUN statistical study of October 27, 1946, translated into Polish by the UB, prepared by NN 'Strich' on Ukrainian human losses in Kuszcza No. II, region III in the 'Chłodny Jar' area:  […]
„Jawornik, the hamlet of Wola — 15”.

source: „Region No. II (kushch) report of the losses of Ukrainian citizens for the period from October 1, 1944 to October 25, 1946”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 52, sh. 320

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]

Extract from the OUN statistical study of October 27, 1946, translated into Polish by the UB, prepared by NN 'Strich' on Ukrainian human losses in Kuszcza No. II, region III in the 'Chłodny Jar' area:  […]
„Jawornik, Rybne hamlet — 10”.

source: „Region No. II (kushch) report of the losses of Ukrainian citizens for the period from October 1, 1944 to October 25, 1946”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 52, sh. 320

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]

Extract from the OUN statistical study of October 27, 1946, translated into Polish by the UB, prepared by NN 'Strich' on Ukrainian human losses in Kuszcza No. II, region III in the 'Chłodny Jar' area:  […]
„Jawornik, Netrebka hamlet — 4”.

source: „Region No. II (kushch) report of the losses of Ukrainian citizens for the period from October 1, 1944 to October 25, 1946”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 52, sh. 320

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 the field report of the SB‑OUN clerk of the 'Chłodny Jar' district, Vasyl Capiak 'Potap', about the murder on a Ukrainian, Wołodymyr Duchniak in Jawornik Ruski by Polish Army soldiers:
„29 January 1947 special unit [of the Polish Army] under the command of Michalski, quartered from 27 January In 1947 in Dynów  […] he caught [in the hamlet of Netrebka] a 22‑year‑old Ukrainian, Duchniak, Volodymyr, who shot him unconscious after beating him.

source: „Wisti z terenu za siczeń 1947”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 26, sh. 153

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]

In the fight against the 'Burłak' sotnia, 18 soldiers from 28th Infantry Regiment of 9th Infantry Division, and 33 were captured and murdered. Siekierka  […] provides a list of names of 8 murdered, the others are NN.

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. 129

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