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
Bełchówka
Sanok pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Bełchówka
Sanok cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
10
max.:
17
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11706
date:
1946.01.20
site
description
general info
Bełchówka
1946 February 1, typescript [Sanok region] — Fragment of a translation into Polish of an information report from Maria Kypkyszko 'Stepova', a propaganda reporter of the 'Beskid' district, concerning the murders of the Polish Army on Ukrainian inhabitants of the village of Bełchówka:
„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 […] Bełchówka — one person was murdered, beaten and robbed; […] Bełuchówka — 6 people were arrested, the next day one of the arrested was found murdered near the forest”.
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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11703
date:
1946.01.22
site
description
general info
Bełchówka
January 20, 1946, typescript — Fragment of the notification of the OUN clerk from District I of the Zakerzonya Region about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Bełchówka:
„On this day [January 22, 1946, the Polish Army] murdered two men in Bełchówka and arrested others and they led them to Bukowska. On the way, a few were murdered. As they walked through the village they sang [the Ukrainian anthem] «Szcze ne wmerla Ukrajina»”.
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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
2 + few
min. 4
max. 11
ref. no:
11704
date:
1946.01.23
site
description
general info
Bełchówka
Excerpt from the situational report of the OUN reporter Stepan Golasz 'Mar' from the 'Beskid' district about the murder of Polish Army soldiers in a Ukrainian in Bełchówka:
„On January 23, the Polish Army, quartered in Bukowsko [after the murders in Ratnawice], entered the village of Bełchówka, which was also heavily robbed. He murdered the farmer, Cełep, and another disabled person. They also murdered one farmer from Kamienna here”.
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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
11705
date:
1946.01.25
site
description
general info
Bełchówka
January 27, 1946, typescript — Fragment of the notification from the UPA company commander 'Szturmowiec–5' Stepan Stebelski 'Chrin' for the commander of the UPA Lemko Battalion Wasyl Mizerny 'Ren' about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Bełchówka:
[January 25, 1946. ] „Bandits murdered two boys in Bełchówka”.
source: „Powidomłennia pro napad na seło Zawadka Morochiwśka 25 sicznia 1946”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 988, 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
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