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
Olszanica
Lesko pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lesko cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
8
max.:
8
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
16
max.:
34
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12201
date:
1945.01–1945.02
site
description
general info
Olszanica
Excerpt from the report of the interrogation of Wiktor Stram on May 20, 1945 by an employee of the Security Service of the OUN about the murder of 8 Ukrainians from the MO post in Olszanica:
„In January and February 1945, 8 (eight) people were murdered at the militia MO post in Olszanica. They were Ukrainians escaping from Germany from forced labor. Two of the murdered came from Daszówka near Ustrzyki Dolne. The commander himself did it on his own in a very conspiratorial manner”.
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, Cop. VII b (244), sh. 98
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:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
10034
date:
1945.05
site
description
general info
Olszanica
The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 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:
09931
date:
1945.05.09
site
description
general info
Olszanica
The UPA massacred 9 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
10273
date:
1945.09.05
site
description
general info
Olszanica
The commander of the MO station, Piotr Kordys, was killed in the fight against the UPA.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10338
date:
1945.10.05
site
description
general info
Olszanica
The UPA murdered 20‑year‑old Stanisław Kostecki.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1945”; 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:
10993
date:
1946.05.01
site
description
general info
Olszanica
In the village of Olszanica, poviat Lesko, Kazimierz Borek, a policeman, died in the UPA fight.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11000
date:
1946.05.06–1946.05.07
site
description
general info
Olszanica
In the village of Olszanica, poviat Lesko, the UPA attacked the railway line on the section Uherce – Stefkowa, poviat Lesko, capturing, among others, the railway station in Olszanica — the number of Polish losses is unknown. According to Siekierka, 11 soldiers of the Polish Army and 9 civilians were killed in the UPA attack on Olszanica; 2 soldiers of the Polish Army and one civilian according to Syrnyk.
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: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006
source: Jarosław Syrnyk, „Bieszczady Triangle. Thousand days and thousand nights of anarchy in Lesko poviat 1944-1947.”, in: ed. Libra PL Sp. z o.o., Rzeszów 2018
„On the night of May 6‑7, 1946 at 23:00, the UPA gang attacked the railway section between Olszanica and Ustianowa, Lesko, while shelling the railway station in Olszanica and bridges, two soldiers were killed as a result of the defense of these facilities by the Polish Army unit”.
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: Prus Edward, „Operation "Vistula"”, in: ed. IV, Wroclaw 2006, p. 280
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2—20
min. 2
max. 20
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EXPLANATIONs
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- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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