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
Obrowiec
Hrubieszów pov., Lublin voiv.
contemporary
Hrubieszów cou., Lublin voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
82
max.:
82
events (incidents)
ref. no:
06053
date:
1944.03
site
description
general info
Obrowiec
The Banderites from the village of Brodzica kidnapped 2 Poles with carts and horses, and no trace of them has ever been seen.
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
06203
date:
1944.03.31–1944.04.01
site
description
general info
Obrowiec
The UPA, together with the UNS from the villages of Brodzica and Podhorce, robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered over 40 Poles. „On the night of March 31 to April 1, 1944, around 1, a strong gang of the OUN–UPA and the SKW attacked Obrowiec (a village located 5 km from Hrubieszów). Some of the attackers were dressed in Wehrmacht military uniforms, some were in Ukrainian police uniforms, and some in civilian clothes.
They were also armed in various ways: with firearms, axes, pitchforks, knives, poles, bayonets, etc. Ukrainian bandits came to the village from the Leopoldów forest. Then they split into smaller groups. One of the groups tightly surrounded the village and shot at Poles who were trying to escape from the village […] as usual, «ryzun» [butchers] started their «cossack's job» by looting all the houses. Bandits rushed into houses and farms, and killed all Poles they met without any mercy on the spot. The escaping ones were shot as if they were ducks and they were chased across the surrounding fields like greyhounds after hares! after the homesteads were robbed, the buildings were burnt. according to Józef Lipski, the apocalypse of death took place in the village: «When most of the buildings burst into flames, the sight was terrifying. Frightening screams were heard all around, moans of dying and murdered people. Cry, the lamentation of women and children, unsuccessfully crying for mercy that the genocides did not show. The roar, neighing and howling of burning animals caused panic». The Ukrainians then murdered over 40 people. The village was almost completely burnt. Only 6 brick buildings, covered with sheet metal or fire–resistant tiles, survived. The Ukrainians from the nearby villages of Brodzica, Podhorzec and Werbkowice as well as policemen from Moniatycze took part in the attack on Obrowiec”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Smalej Henryk, „Ukrainian crimes in the commune of Moniatycze, poviat Hrubieszów in the years 1939-1944”
source: Lipski Józef, „On the border”
source: web page: zielonezacisze.blox.pl [accessible: 2012.02.01]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
40
min. 40
max. 40
ref. no:
06225
date:
1944.04.01–1944.04.02
site
description
general info
Obrowiec
Ukrainian SS men from the SS „Galizien” murdered 30 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. Sowa Andrzej Leon, „Polish-Ukrainian relations 1939-1947”; in: Society of History Supporters, in: Krakow 1998, p. 263
See: on the night of March 31, 1944, the village of Obrowiec.
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:
30
min. 30
max. 30
ref. no:
09960
date:
1945.05.17
site
description
general info
Obrowiec
May 17, 1945. Ukrainian nationalists attacked the countryside and killed about 10 people of NN.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; 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
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
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