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
Kuryłówka
Łańcut pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Leżajsk cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
77
max.:
77
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
6
max.:
6
Perpetrators:
Russians and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
17
max.:
17
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12022
date:
1943–1945
site
description
general info
Kuryłówka
Polish translation of Mykoła Andrusiak's information about the murder of Ukrainians in the village of Kuryłówka published in 1986 in the collection „Jarosław and Beyond the San river regions”:
„The victims of Polish degenerates in Kuryłówka were: Mychajło Biela, Maria, Anna and Iwan Dutko, Mykoła and Bohdan Żelisko, Mokryna, Anna and Justyna Kendziora, Fedir and Kateryna Kniazewycz, Anatoly, Iwan and Volodymyr Koba, Iwan Kordas, Prokip Kulyk, Iwan Kuryło, Julian Magiera, Mychajło Mychałuszko, Ołeksa Pracin, Jurij Rawza, Iwan Smołewycz, Julian and Karola Sydoryn Sydorich, Mykhailo Czernenko, Teofan Barycki and Mykhailo Buda”.
source: „Kuryłówka”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 214
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:
17
min. 17
max. 17
ref. no:
04334
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Kuryłówka
Ukrainian policemen murdered a Pole named Sikorski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; 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:
11409
date:
1945–1946
site
description
general info
Kuryłówka
UPA murdered 5 Poles.
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
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
12023
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Kuryłówka
Excerpt from Roman Buczka's account of the murder of Ukrainians in Kuryłówka:
„Evacuation to the Soviet Union. It was announced in the village to collect things, because carts would come and take them to the train station. People took what was most necessary. In tears, they left their family homes. Sorrow, grief, and fear intertwined. Suddenly shots. The killers surrounded the village. They robbed. They killed whoever they could. If anyone ran across the field into the forest, they chased him on horseback and killed him.
We ran along field bounds with Uncle Mykhailo. We heard that the executioner was catching up with us, but when he saw a horse cart nearby, turned left and shot the Czornejk family. And he followed other victims. We stayed alive and hid in the bushes.
More than 60 people were murdered then […] I remember poor Caroline asking the executioner:
— «Michał, don't shoot, please», she fell at his feet, but the bandit did not spare her. He shot straight in the forehead, saying:
— «Russins! I will kill all of you, you bastards».
I remember how they killed the old Kańdziorycha. They came home. Grandma, deaf and paralyzed, was lying on a bunch of clothes. She didn't hear what the executioner was saying to her. The gunshots were heard only by the children who hid at the Trzścianki family.
Koba brothers. They shot them in the daytime. They dealt cruelly with Kordas, Struc and Wanie. There were hundreds of such accidents. And how they dealt with those they found in the woods. It seems that worse torture cannot be invented”.
source: Buczko, „v. Kuryliwka”; 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. 116
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:
60
min. 60
max. 60
ref. no:
12024
date:
1945.03.06
site
description
general info
Kuryłówka
„On March 6, 1945, a group of 30 Red Army soldiers and Ukrainians from Kulno attacked the MO station in Kuryłówka. The attackers disarmed and robbed the station, released the interrogated detainee (a Ukrainian, former member of Orpo), and robbed the inhabitants of Kuryłówka, killing two people”.
source: „Battle at Kuryłówka”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2022.04.02]
perpetrators
Russians and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
12025
date:
1945.05.07
site
description
general info
Kuryłówka
„Sent in the early morning of May 7 towards Kulno, the NOW [i.e. National Military Organisation] patrol of the 'Majka' unit encountered a line of Soviet soldiers. The exchange of fire alerted the village, the national units began to withdraw, which was stopped by the commander Franciszek Przysieżniak [nom‑de‑guerre 'Father Jan'], ordering defense. The 'Radwan' unit, which was Kuryłówka's insurance, accepted the fight and fought off NKVD attacks in the vicinity of the school and the community building for an hour. He was soon supported by the 'Majka' unit, brought to Kuryłówka from the neighboring Tarnawiec. The Soviet attack collapsed.
After regrouping, the NKVD struck again, this time from the San. The 'Wołyniak' unit, which reached the place of the battle from Ożanna, came to the aid of the besieged. With his help, the attack was successfully repelled. Fierce fights lasted 7 hours until 1 p.m. At around 3 p.m., the Soviets tried again to break the resistance, attacking frontally from the forest north–east of Kuryłówka. This attack also collapsed in the fire of machine guns.
Late in the afternoon, expecting another attack, 'Father Jan' gave the order to withdraw from the village. The 'Majka' unit withdrew to the area of Przychojec, the 'Radwan' unit to the south, towards Jarosław, 'Wołyniak' with his men jumped to the left bank of the San, near Grodzisk Dolna. Some of its inhabitants left Kuryłówka together with the troops of NOW, fearing revenge by the Soviets.
The partisans managed to repel three large attacks by the NKVD. In the documents and reports from the battle, the number of approximately 57 NKVD killed is most often mentioned. Seven soldiers were killed on the part of NOW and five were seriously wounded”.
source: „Battle at Kuryłówka”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2022.04.02]
perpetrators
Russians and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
7
min. 7
max. 7
ref. no:
12026
date:
1945.05.08
site
description
general info
Kuryłówka
„The next day [after the Battle of Kuryłówka] a punitive NKVD expedition entered Kuryłówka. The Soviets murdered eight people and the village buildings were burnt. A few weeks after the pacification of Kuryłówka by the NKVD, the District Command [of the National Military Organization] NOW paid the village residents allowances, allocating for them some of the money obtained in the expropriation action on the bank in Przemyśl, carried out on June 26, 1945”.
source: „Battle at Kuryłówka”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2022.04.02]
perpetrators
Russians and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
8
min. 8
max. 8
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