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Poland
GENOCIDE perpetrated by UKRAINIANS on POLES
Data for 1943–1947
Site
II Republic of Poland
Karlików
Sanok pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Sanok cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
1
max.:
1
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles and Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
4
max.:
4
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
16
max.:
30
events (incidents)
ref. no:
10709
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Karlików
The Ukrainians murdered Michał Sochacki, born in 1922, a farmer.
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:
11443
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Karlików
[The UPA] murdered 3 Poles and 1 Ukrainian.
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 and Ukrainians
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
11953
date:
1946.01.24
site
description
general info
Karlików
January 20, 1946, typescript — Fragment of the notification of the OUN clerk from District I of the Zakerzonya Region about the murder of Ukrainians by Polish Army soldiers in Karlików:
„On January 24, 1946, at 4 a.m., the Polish Army from Bukowsko jumped to the village of Karlików in the Sanok district. There were 50 of them, they started to plunder everything they saw, but they murdered 2 people and left quickly.
On the same day at night, the same gang of about 100 people attacked this village. People got to know Polish civilians from Bukowsko and the surrounding villages among a gang of military personnel. People plunder and murder immediately began. They murdered 17 people, incl. An 80‑year‑old priest with his wife, daughter and 4‑year‑old child. The murdered had broken arms, legs, ribs, stabbed eyes, cut off noses and ears. Before they died, they mistreated each person and finally shot. Many people were injured, injured, with broken arms, legs, ribs, teeth broken. 30 houses were burned down in the village. They took some of the people with them and murdered them on the way. One murdered man was found in a forest near Bukowskie. '
source: „Powidomłennia pro antyukrajinśki akciji widdiliw Wijśka polśkoho”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 985, 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]
1946 February 1, typescript [Sanockie] — Fragment of a translation into Polish of the information report of Maria Kypkyszko 'Stepowa', a propaganda reporter of the 'Beskid' district, concerning the murders of the Ukrainian inhabitants of the village of Karlików by Polish Army:
„On January 20, there were groups of about 120 people from mortars, various weapons and telephone equipment. These groups had a cruel attitude towards the Ukrainian population […] 14 people were murdered in Karlików, including a 70‑year‑old priest, his wife, daughter and 6‑year‑old granddaughter. The child the maid was holding in her arms was hit three times in the chest with bayonets, then the maid was shot. The priest's face was massacred with a bayonet. Others were also stabbed with bayonets and shot. Several peasants were injured, many were beaten, and several huts were burned down. Several people were arrested and taken, the next day two were found somewhere in the bushes by the road — murdered”.
source: „Sanok region in January 1946”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 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]
February 1946 — Fragment of the OUN report of the 'Beskid' district on the situation in the field in January 1946:
„The Polish Army in the number of 60 people and civilian bandits from Bukowsko [January 24, 1946 — BH] attacked the village of Karlików, Sanok district, burnt 20 houses, murdered 16 people, including an old priest and his family. The entire economic property was burned down in the fire, because the Polish bandits did not allow anything to be saved, and they themselves threw various things into the fire. They bully all the captured people, including even the young children. The civilians from Bukowsko showed the greatest animosity, murdering innocent villagers in a terrible way and robbing whatever they could take with them to the camps. Polish bandits then murdered the following people:
1. Malarczyk Ołeksy, 68 — priest Karlików, broken fingers with special forceps and pierced with a bayonet;
2. Malarczyk Emilia, 63 — wife of the parish priest, shot, pierced with a bayonet;
3. Szpynda Olha, 29 — daughter of a paroch, shot;
4. Szpynda Maria, 4 — granddaughter of the parish priest — shot, still pierced with bayonets in the maid's hands;
5. Hojsan Stepan, 51 — badly beaten, then shot;
6. Maslany Wasyl, 38 — cut into straps, cut off ears and fingers on hands, village administrator from Karlików;
7. Stefura Andrij, 37 — secretary from Karlików, broken hands, bayonet cut;
8. Stefan, 41 — broken swing ribs, cut with a bayonet;
9. Hołota Stefan, 51 — broken hands;
10. Sywy Semen, 19 — shot;
11. Werbyn Mykhailo, 34 — [shot];
12. Baranycz Mychajło, 34 — [shot];
13. Sywy Ivan, 28 — shot;
14. Ivanusiv Anastasia, 31 — shot, bayoneted;
15. Duduś Anastasia, 72 — [shot, bayoneted];
16. Sywy Dmytro, 21 — shot, ran away, then he died.
Apart from the murdered, there were a few injured people, and many badly beaten and maimed "
source: „Wisti z terenu za misiać siczeń 1946”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 57, 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]
January 25, 1946, Sanok — Intelligence report of the staff of the 34th regiment for the commander of the 8th infantry division of the Polish Army on the operation of regimental operational groups in the village of Zawadka Morochowska: […]
„As a result of the action carried out by the 'Bukowsko' Operational Group on January 24, 1946. In the village of Karlików (7878), sapper material and a uniform warehouse were found in the belfry near the church, 5 Banderites were killed, 1 wounded, 14 detained, 1 PPSz and 1 KB were cut. On the same day, two cows from the Banderites' attack on the town of Nowosielce (9278) were found. On that day, during the action in the town of Karlików, 30 Banderites were killed and the ammunition and weapons warehouse was burnt. Enclosed is a sketch of the operation on January 25 and the way of the gang's withdrawal.
2nd Assistant Acting Chief of Staff
Ludwikow Bereznicki, second–lieutenant”.
source: „A reconnaissance report to the commander of the B. Głowacki's 8th Dresden 'Cross of Grunwald' infantry division – II Department of January 25, 1946”; in: Military Historical Office, Central Military Archives , in: CAW IV.521.8.9, sh. 100
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:
16—30
min. 16
max. 30
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