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
Krowica Hołodowska
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Germans and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
1
max.:
1
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
62
max.:
179
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
76
max.:
94
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04325
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
As a result of denunciation by Ukrainian policemen, the Germans deported a Pole, a teacher who died there, to Oświęcim. It was Tadeusz Ungehayer.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05093
date:
1944.02.21
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
(forester's lodge)
The UPA attacked the property of the Krakow Academy and murdered 7 Poles and 1 Ukrainian, the manager's housekeeper.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
06003
date:
1944.03
site
description
general info
The Banderites murdered 7 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
7
min. 7
max. 7
ref. no:
06515
date:
1944.04.20
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
The Ukrainians murdered and burned 6 Poles, including a woman, in their homes.
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:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
06580
date:
1944.04.26
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
[The Ukrainians] burned down all the buildings and murdered 9 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
06972
date:
1944.05.03
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
The Ukrainians murdered 7 Poles.
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:
7
min. 7
max. 7
ref. no:
07215
date:
1944.05
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
(forester's lodge)
or
(forester's lodge)
or
(forester's lodge)
Alfred Wilowski, a forest trainee, was murdered by the UPA in the Krowica forestry region in Lubaczów county.
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:
07739
date:
1944.08.05
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
The local Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 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:
08054
date:
1944.09
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
The UPA massacred 9 Poles, including 2 married couples and 2 women.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
12004
date:
1944.12.31
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
Excerpt from an account by Maria Korytko, born in Lubaczów, about the murder of a Ukrainian in Krowica Hołodowska by MO members:
„On December 31, 1944, Polish militia entered the house in the village of Krowica Hołodowska (10 km from Lubaczów), where my grandmother Kornelia Strońska, a retired teacher, and her son lived, and my uncle, Iwan Stroński, a forester in the village of Sieniawka, with his pregnant wife. They arrested my uncle, blamed him for contacts with the UPA and shot him at night without any investigation or trial, because he supposedly wanted to escape. He was buried in Krowica Hołodowska. Soon his son was born. After these tragic events, my parents registered themselves, our relative and me for the trip to the Ukrainian SSR in Lviv”.
source: Korytko Marija; in: Sływka J. (ed,), „Deportaciji. Zachidni zemli Ukrajiny kincia 30—ch – poczatku 50—ch rr. Dokumenty. Materiały. Spohady.”, in: Lviv 2002, vol. 3: „Memoirs”, 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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09018
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
The Ukrainians murdered 7 Poles, including a woman. And: In the village of Krowica Hołodowska they murdered Rozalia Kubiszyn, born in 1908, during the escape Stefania Harysz, born 1920, in the forest on the way back from Lubaczów Władysława Nowosiadło born 1927 and Stefan Antoniszyn b. 1926, and Piotr Zurawel, born 1908.
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:
7
min. 7
max. 7
ref. no:
09435
date:
1945.02.20
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
The local Ukrainians murdered Katarzyna Kuryk, born in 1896.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11999
date:
1945.02.22
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
December 1945 [?], [typescript] — Fragment of a report by Mykhail Borys 'Żan', a political clerk of the region II of the Zakerzonya Region, about the murders of Ukrainians in Krowica Hołodowska:
„On February 22, MO murdered the villagers at night:
Chachura Anna — 36 years old,
Chachura Ołeksa — age 39”.
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
09593
date:
1945.03.27–1945.03.28
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
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:
12000
date:
1945.04.03
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
December 1945 [?], [typescript] — Fragment of a report by Mykhail Borys 'Żan', a political clerk of the region II in the Zakerzonya Region II, about the murders of Ukrainians in Krowica Hołodowska:
„On April 3, 1945, MO murdered a villager Stroncki Iwan — 43 years old”.
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:
09809
date:
1945.04.20
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
On April 20, 1945, they murdered Michał Zelisko, born in 1872, Jana Jurzynimasz b. 1877, and the policeman Zbigniew Frysztacki.
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]
[The Ukrainians] burned 2 Poles, 68 and 73 years old, alive in their houses.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
12002
date:
1945.04.24
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
December 1945 [?], [typescript] — Excerpt from a report by Mykhail Borys 'Żan', a political clerk of the region II of the Zakerzonya Region, about the murders of Ukrainians in Krowica Hołodowska:
„On April 24, 1945 the local MO murdered such villagers:
Bobel Kateryna — she was 65 years old;
Demkiw Petro — 17;
Drobot Mykhailo — 17;
Myklosz Mychajło — 17”.
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:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
12001
date:
1945.04
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
December 1945 [?], [typescript] — Excerpt from a report by Mykhail Borys 'Żan', a political clerk of the region II of the Zakerzonya Region, about the murders of Ukrainians in Krowica Hołodowska:
„In April, Bolshevik border guards murdered Daniv Petr”.
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:
10321
date:
1945.10.01
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
(forestry inspectorate)
or
(forestry inspectorate)
or
(forestry inspectorate)
A Pole, a forester Jan Rübenbauer, was killed by the UPA in the Krowica forestry region in Lubaczów county.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10357
date:
1945.10.13
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
The local Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1945”; 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:
10363
date:
1945.10.15
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
The Ukrainians murdered Konstanty Karuta, born in 1925.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
12005
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
Excerpt from Ołeksander Demka's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Krowica by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„In 1945, forced displacement began. The Polish Army came to the village of Krowica with its governors from the Polish partisans. People were supposed to go to Ukraine during the day. Many murders took place on the day of deportation, which coincided with Easter. Anastasia Melnyk, Julija Mazurkewycz, Huk Benedykta and many other villagers, including the church singer Mylan Andrij, were murdered in the presbytery in the family of priest Demka Stanisław”.
source: Demko O., „Spohady pro moje seło Korowyciu”; in: „Wisnyk Lubacziwszczyny”, in: No. 8, 2003, 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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
11046
date:
1946.05
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
In the village of Krowica Hołodowska, poviat Lubaczów, [the Ukrainians] murdered a policeman from the police station named Dobrowolski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 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:
11229
date:
1946.08.24
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
The UPA murdered a policeman from the police station, Antoni Pacanowski, born in 1915.
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 – August 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11262
date:
1946.09.15
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
The UPA murdered Michał Kruk, a shoemaker.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
12003
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
December 1945 [?], [typescript] — Excerpt from a report by Mykhail Borys 'Żan', a political clerk from the II region of the Zakerzonya Region, about the murders of Ukrainians in Krowica Hołodowska:
„Total: 28 murdered, 8 women, 3 children aged 5 —15 years, 17 men”.
[The given number of victims includes other victims, not mentioned elsewhere by the source, GTKRK].
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:
20
min. 20
max. 20
ref. no:
12006
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
Krowica Hołodowska
Excerpt from the memories of Mychajła Podilczak and Marija Połochajło about the mass murder of Ukrainians in Krowica by members of MO and soldiers of the Polish Army:
„After some time, the Poles murdered 12 families. In the Wasylek family, they murdered their parents and left the children alive. In the morning the neighbors came out and saw the baby suckling on the breast of the dead mother. They murdered all Kyryls: both children and adults. The old Hrynczyszyn family spent the night at home, so they were killed, and their daughter hid in the henhouse and survived. The priest and his wife hid, their old parents stayed home. [The murderers] put them on the floor, put boards on them and jumped on them until they got tired. They even killed their maidservant.
source: Podilczak M., Połochajło M., „Nasze ridne seło Korowycia”; in: „Lubachivshchyna Our Land”, in: No. 1, Lviv 2000, p. 28
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:
7 + 9 families
min. 43
max. 61
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