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
Oleszyce
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
23
max.:
27
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
5
max.:
37
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
06812
date:
1944.04
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
Gamekeeper Tomasz Wesołowski was murdered by the UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
07178
date:
1944.04–1944.05
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
Around April–May 1944, an NN warehouse keeper was murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 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
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
07360
date:
1944.06.15
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
The Ukrainians murdered Jan Sroka.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; 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:
12200
date:
1944.11
site
description
general info
Excerpt from Ivan Horajski's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Dzików Stary and Dzików Nowy by members of MO, UB and soldiers of the Polish Army.
„After the massacre of 56 shooters, Poles believed that there was no one left in the forest. Now they started to bully and murder […] In the first days of November, there were already good frosts, so it was impossible to leave the house barefoot. At that time, Poles were chasing 30 men through Dachnów, Futory, and Oleszyce towards Jarosław (all were barefoot), but all those arrested did not reach Jarosław and never returned home, which means that they were murdered on the way in some forest between Oleszyce and Zapałowem […] These were the people arrested in Cieszanowski's villages”.
source: Horajski I., „Spomyny”, b.m., b.d., b.p.; in: Bogdan Huk's archive, 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:
30
min. 30
max. 30
ref. no:
08658
date:
1944.12.20
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 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:
08794
date:
1944.12
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
In December 1944, they murdered Piotr Horeczy, born in 1900 and Bolesław Niweliński born 1913.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
09077
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
Jan Sroka, murdered by the UPA in 1944, is buried at the municipal cemetery.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Lisze Bogdan, „Buried at the municipal cemetery in Oleszyce”; in: portal: History. Lubaczów, Cieszanów, Oleszyce, Narol… — web page: www.historia.elubaczow.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09564
date:
1945.03.23
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; 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:
09717
date:
1945.04.04–1945.04.05
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
(forestry inspectorate)
Gamekeeper Piotr Witkowski was murdered by the UPA. Others: In Tomsy, on April 4, 1945, they murdered Piotr Witkowski, born in 1904.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
12199
date:
1945.04
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
Excerpt from the report by „Wisti z terenu” of April 18, 1945:
„April 1945. In Oleszyce, the Polish police killed 5 men, including a 70‑year‑old man”.
source: „Wytiah iz Wistej z terenu pro antyukrajinśki akciji polakiw na Hrubesziwszczyni w berezni1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 860, 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:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
10288
date:
1945.09.14–1945.09.15
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
sotnya „Bałaja”, supported by the SKW, attacked the railway station, captured it and burned it down. At the same time, the 1st battalion of the 7th IR stationed in Oleszyce, 4 km away, was attacked. Several UPA members managed to break into the edge of the village and set fire to a dozen houses and barns. After a few hours, the UPA began to retreat. The Poles had two killed and four wounded.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1945”; 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:
10426
date:
1945.11.12
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
The Ukrainians murdered Maria Mozoł's brother.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10433
date:
1945.11.16
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
The Ukrainians murdered a soldier of 7 pp. Jan Labocha.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10750
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
The UPA murdered 2 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 1945”; 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:
11039
date:
1946.05.28
site
description
general info
On the road Jarosław — Oleszyce, Rzeszów voivodeship, the UPA murdered 4 Poles, including a woman.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
11042
date:
1946.05.30
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
In the village of Oleszyce, poviat Lubaczów, [the Ukrainians] murdered 3 unknown soldiers from the 26th IR of the 9th Infantry Division.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
11400
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
(forestry inspectorate)
A Polish forester was murdered by the UPA: the kidnapped disappeared without a trace, the gamekeeper Chlebka (name unknown).
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11853
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Excerpt from Ivan Horajski's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Dzików Stary and Dzików Nowy by members of MO, UB and soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces:
„On the 4th day of deportation, the army arrested Szałajski and Zadorożny (young, about 30 years old) from Dzików Stary. They tied them to a cart and started their horses, and they had to run until they passed out and fell. Then [the soldiers] poured several buckets of water on them. When they both recovered a little, the same ride continued. They dragged them both through the whole Dzików Nowy, Dzików Stary, until they died in the forest between Dzików and Oleszyce”.
source: Horajski I., „Spomyny”, b.m., b.d., b.p.; in: Bogdan Huk's archive, 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
ref. no:
11467
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Oleszyce
In 1946 [the UPA] murdered Andrzej Wędrzyn, 25.
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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