A tragedy took place in Miedziaki on April 12, 1944. Residents – Poles, expecting an attack at night, were awake and in the morning they fell asleep. At that time, Jan – father and Jan – s/o Szumski, Walenty Błoński, Karol Gierus with their sons Michał and Józef as well as father and grandfather, Mieczysław Swoboda, Jan Węglowski, Michał Błaszczyszyn, Wawrzyniec Kość, three unknown men from the vicinity of Przemyśl and others, 21 people in total.

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

source: web page: www.znaczacy.com [accessible: 2021.04.11]

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]

On April 14, 1944, they were murdered: 1–3. Gierus Piotr; Gierus Charles; Gierus Jan (young) 1–3Ż. Three Jews hidden by Walenty Jabłoński.

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

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8

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]

According to the present report of the Polish Delegation KO on 15.IV.1944 in the Miedziaki cluster [Lwów], 17 people of Polish nationality were murdered by a terrorist gang: 1. Karol Gerus, 63 years old; 2. Michał Gerus, 54 years old; 3. Karol Gerus, 17 years old; 4. Józef Gerus, 55 years old; 5. Wawrzyniec Kość, 31 years old; 6. Michał Gerus, 32 years old; 7. Jan Gryglewicz, 29 years old; 8. Jan Gerus, 65 years old; 9. Jan Węglowski, 55 years old; 10. Michał Rzepal, 22 years old; 11. Mieczysław Swoboda, 25 years old; 12. Józef Gerus, 23 years old; 13. Michał Gerus, 26 years old; 14. Michał Gerus, 74 years old; 15. Michał Błaszczyszyn, 54 years old; 16. Walenty Błoński, 57 years old; 17. Franciszek Stuper, 47 years old.

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

source: „1944, June 8 - A letter from PolKO Lwów-district to the RGO Delegate in Lviv regarding attacks and murders committed on the Polish population in the Miedziaki and Rudno Gromada”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 261

Siekierka et al.  […] list these victims in Lviv at the village of Polana, county Lviv with the date of the murder on April 12, 1944.

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

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. 627

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]

At the beginning of May 1944, the Ukrainians murdered 5 Poles: 2 women and 3 children of one of them, they fled the village of Huta Szczerzecka.

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