The Ukrainians murdered 8 Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

In view of the growing murder in the area, the Poles living in the village left their family homes and took refuge in Zbaraż. Local Banderites from SKW wanted to prove „reliable” service for Ukraine, but there were no Poles to kill. They all left. So the Ukrainians used a trick. Posing as NKVD officers from Zbaraż, they suggested that the inhabitants of Kurniki go to their farms to buy food. They managed to persuade 8 people. One of the officers that the Poles knew was indeed an NKVD but probably colluded with the Bandera followers. This weakened the vigilance of some Poles. They left in carts to Kurniki, but did not reach them. They were taken to the forest, where the Bandera followers martyred them. It happened in the spring of 1945. It was only after a few weeks that their bodies were found in the forest beyond Zbaraż. In this way, SKW activists fulfilled the orders of UPA commanders to exterminate Poles in their town. In the same year, the Banderites murdered two more people in that village, just before they left for Poland. Thus, it was not the expulsion of Poles that was the goal of Bander's actions, but total extermination – pure genocide. Komański, p, 461 reports that in the summer of 1944 the Bandera followers murdered 8 Poles during their trips from Zbaraż to their village for food and in April 1945 10 Poles (named by name) „Please divide on borderland forums about the death of Mrs. grandmother, who died on August 26, at the age of 99, born in Kurniki, county Zbarazh, was an eyewitness to the Ukrainian genocide; in 1944 she witnessed the capture of her father, Marcin Dziedzic, by a gang of Ukrainian nationalists and torment him together with other residents (mainly men, including teenagers and children) in a nearby forest (Kurniki, Iwanczany, Zbaraż district, Tarnopol Province). To this day, there is no commemoration of the place of execution or even indication of the remains. At my request, in 2014, the prosecutor of the IPN” was able to testify in Nysa, where Grandma lived at the end of her life.

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

source: Kawa Marek, vice-chairman of the city council of Opole; in: portal: Fr Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski — web page: isakowicz.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

The Ukrainians murdered 8 NN Poles during their departures from Zbaraż to their homes.

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

source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 461

Franciszka Zawadzka, my grandmother, died on August 26, 2016, at the age of 99, born in Kurniki, county Zbarazh. In 1944 she witnessed the capture of her father, Marcin Dziedzic, by a gang of Ukrainian nationalists and torment him together with other residents (mainly men, including teenagers and children) in a nearby forest (Kurniki, Iwanczany, Zbaraż district, Tarnopol Province). To this day, there is no commemoration of the place of execution or even any indication of the remains. At my request, in 2014, the IPN prosecutor managed to testify in Nysa, where Grandma was alive at the end of her life. I will only add that at our suggestion or request to visit her homeland, she always categorically refused, which indicates a great trauma and a lack of trust in the Ukrainian side.

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

source: Kawa Marek, vice-chairman of the Opole City Council

In view of the growing murder in the area, the Poles living in the village left their family homes and took refuge in Zbaraż. Local Banderites from SKW wanted to prove „reliable” service for Ukraine, but there were no Poles to kill. They all left. So the Ukrainians used a trick. Posing as NKVD officers from Zbaraż, they suggested that the inhabitants of Kurniki go to their farms to buy food. They managed to persuade 8 people. One of the officers that the Poles knew was indeed an NKVD but probably colluded with the Bandera followers. This weakened the vigilance of some Poles. They left in carts to Kurniki, but did not reach them. They were taken to the forest, where the Bandera followers martyred them. It happened in the spring of 1945. It was only after a few weeks that their bodies were found in the forest beyond Zbaraż. In this way, SKW activists fulfilled the orders of UPA commanders to exterminate Poles in their town. That same year, the Banderites murdered two more people in that village, just before they left for Poland. Thus, it was not the expulsion of Poles that was the goal of Bander's actions, but total extermination – pure genocide. Komański, p. 461 reports that in the summer of 1944 the Bandera followers murdered 8 Poles during their departures from Zbaraż to their village for food and in April 1945 10 Poles (named by name). „Please share in borderland forums about the death of Mrs. Franciszka Zawadzka, my grandmother, who died on August 26 this year, at the age of 99, born in Kurniki, county Zbarazh, was an eyewitness to the Ukrainian genocide; in 1944 she witnessed the capture of her father, Marcin Dziedzic, by a gang of Ukrainian nationalists and torment him together with other residents (mainly men, including teenagers and children) in a nearby forest (Kurniki, Iwanczany, Zbaraż district, Tarnopol Province). To this day, no commemoration of the place of execution or even indication of the remains. At my request, in 2014, I managed to testify in Nysa, where Grandma lived at the end of her life, to the prosecutor of the IPN”.

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

source: Kawa Marek, vice-chairman of the city council of Opole; in: portal: Fr Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski — web page: isakowicz.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

[The Ukrainians] murdered 10 Poles. And: In the village of Kurniki Inanczańskie, in the face of a growing wave of murders in the area, the Poles living in the village left their family homes, taking refuge in Zbarazh. Local Banderites from SKW wanted to prove „reliable” service for Ukraine, but there were no Poles to kill. They all left. So the Ukrainians used a trick. Posing as NKVD officers from Zbarazh, they suggested that the inhabitants of Kurniki go to their farms to buy food. They managed to persuade 8 people. One of the officers that the Poles knew was indeed an NKVD but probably colluded with the Bandera followers. This weakened the vigilance of some Poles. They left in carts to Kurniki, but did not reach them. They were taken to the forest, where the Bandera followers martyred them. It happened in the spring of 1945. Only after a few weeks, their bodies were found in the forest behind Zbarazh. In this way, SKW activists fulfilled the orders of UPA commanders to exterminate Poles in their town. That same year, the Banderites murdered two more people in that village, just before they left for Poland. Thus, it was not the expulsion of Poles that was the goal of Bander's actions, but total extermination — pure genocide. Komański, p. 461 reports that in the summer of 1944 the Bandera followers murdered 8 Poles during their departures from Zbaraż to their village for food and in April 1945 10 Poles (named by name). „Please share in borderland forums about the death of Mrs. Franciszka Zawadzka, my grandmother, who died on August 26 this year, at the age of 99, born in Kurniki, county Zbarazh, was an eyewitness to the Ukrainian genocide; in 1944 she witnessed the capture of her father, Marcin Dziedzic, by a gang of Ukrainian nationalists and torment him together with other residents (mainly men, including teenagers and children) in a nearby forest (Kurniki, Iwanczany, Zbaraż district, Tarnopol Province). To this day, no commemoration of the place of execution or even indication of the remains. At my request, in 2014, I managed to testify in Nysa, where Grandma lived at the end of her life, to the prosecutor of the IPN (National Remembrance Institute)”.

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

source: Kawa Marek, vice-chairman of the city council of Opole; in: portal: Fr Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski — web page: isakowicz.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]