Excerpt from Anastazja Kucło's account of the murder of Ukrainians in Piskorowice by NZW units:
„One of Kudlaty's best friends was Edek Rudziński from Czercz. Once I was walking home from Pigany, when he and Prokop Jaroszyk met me near the house. He followed me home and started talking about how his sister liked me and how seriously he thinks of me. I was afraid and said in Russyn to my mother that I will go to Pigany,
— «Pidu po zumeniu» [i.e. «I will go through the gardens»,
bypassing homes. Rudziński mocked me:
— «Pidu po zumeniu, pidu po zumeniu ».
And I said to him:
— «And you're nasermater [swearword], I know what you came for: kill me right now».
— «What are you crazy? Me you?» — Rudziński replied and left.
He had a proverb that if he didn't kill him in the morning, he wouldn't like breakfast. He killed grandfather Szykuła, who had returned from the camp in Jarosław.
And then Jaroszyk came and brought a letter from 'Kudlaty' so that I would join him on the farm for a housekeeper, and in the letter he promised that nothing would happen to me.
I saw 'Wołyniak', I even drank vodka with him at home. It was before the action. The militia commander, Brzuszek Józef, came and said that we had to accommodate 'our boys'. Eight of them came, and 'Wołyniak' was ninth. He was smartly dressed, a pretty guy. In the morning, after they ate, he wrote dad a note not to move, because it would all pass. Only he did not stamp it, because he did not have one, he said.
Wasyl Szalewa from Chałupki took his Polish wife from the Kelers, where he also lived. They had one child, he thought he would stay, because his Polish wife, he took even his mother and father with him. That night I slept with my uncle in the attic. I heard a shooting at night. I said to my cousin:
— «Jasiek, they are shooting at someone's house».
And in the morning people said that they shot everyone at the Kelers, seven people. A dead child, perhaps one year old, was lying at the doorstep. They killed Ilek and Karolina Szalew, Michał, Maria, Paraskewia Keler. I do not remember the child's name.
Even before the school attack, my cousin Szykulicha came back from France with her friend Papa. They were both killed by the San river.
There was supposed to be security in the school, but it was a false pretence, because the security took off, and they burst in at night and killed everyone. My whole family, Szykułows, death found there: my aunt Ewa, her sons Jan and Michał, daughter Anna.
I was hiding at Zawada's house for a few days, because Zawada wanted to marry me, so he hid both my father and my brother. It calmed down a little and dad said he would go home. Zawada wanted to drive him away. And when he went, he didn't come back, because they killed him the same day. They came and immediately told dad what to give: a trunk and a cow. They took him near Brzuszek and Magpie, shot him there on the road, and went on to rob them themselves.
They shot my father, Jan Kucła, next to the house. Szczekota's daughter Irena drove him from the farm and drove him to the San river, where she threw him into the river.
It was the last action, they killed then 34 peasants and one woman”.

source: „Zapis magnetofonowy rozmowy Bogdana Huka z Anastazją Kucło”; in: Bogdan Huk's archive, in: lipiec 2004

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]

Excerpt from Jarosław Tepłycki's memoirs about a mass murder of Ukrainians in Piskorowice in the hamlet of Mołynie by the NZW group :
„In the hamlet of Mołynie, a Polish gang killed the married couple of Ilka and Anna Mołyni, and threw their daughter Anna into the San. They killed Peter Kowalczyk, Semen Chromejka, Wasyl Wołoch, Anastazija Pihan, Paraskewia Bliszcz, Ilka Socha, Ivan Bliszcz, Ivan Kril, Marija Mołyń, Anna Socha with his son, Ołeks Mołynia, Onufrij Mołynia was killed by his colleague from Rudka Stach Kotowsk, Petro Kowalski was killed by Masurians, Marian and Albin Łajczak from the forester's lodge. Anna Mołyń, returning from Germany, was killed by Poles from Brzyska Wola  […] The Poles also shot two of Łohin's wife's brothers and threw them into the San river”.

source: Tepłyćkyj Ja., „Tepłyci”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „Our Word”, in: No. 43, 2005, p. 9

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]

At the beginning of July, The Ukrainians from the SKW robbed and burned 15 Polish farms and murdered 6 Poles.

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

Cieplice, March 19, 1948 — Interview of an officer of the Citizens' Militia post in Cieplice regarding the murder of Wasyl Bliszcz in Piskorowice:
„I, Corporal Siciarz Antoni from the Citizens' Militia post in Cieplice, as a result of the order of the commander of the Citizens' Militia station in Cieplice, conducted an investigation and comprehensive interviews in the case of the murder of N Bliszcza from Piskorowice by NN of the perpetrators.
I established the following: Bliszcz Wasyl, approx. 35 years old, Greek–Catholic, Ukrainian nationality, residing in the Piskorowice community on January 9, 1945 at around 24 was shot dead in the Żuchów community, Leżajsk commune, Łańcut poviat, by unknown perpetrators.
I have not questioned any witnesses for this, because there are no such witnesses and I cannot test them, because the murder took place at night. At that time, none of the inhabitants of the Piskorowice and Żuchów communities passed through the place where the murder took place. The population of the Piskorowice community supposes that the murder of Bliszcz Wasyl could have been carried out by a band of NSZ under the command of 'Wołyniak' or 'Kudłaty', which at that time robbed the Ukrainian population and Polish democratic activists in the Piskorowice community and in the neighboring areas.
Interview conducted by
Siciarz Antoni, Corporal”

source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 107/703, vol. I, sh. 269

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]

Excerpt from the report of Dymitr Dzioba 'Stal', the political clerk of the 2nd OUN District of the Zakerzonya Region, on April 25, 1945:
„On April 16 and 18, 1945, the Ukrainian population from the village of Piskorowice left for the station in Jarosław, and then went to Ukraine. A local gang attacked them. People were shot, the property with carts was taken away”.

source: „Informacija pro antyukrajinśki akciji na terenach Jarosławszczyny ta Lubacziwszczyny”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 865, 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]

The Ukrainians murdered Anastazja Baracz.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Crime on the Ukrainian population of the village of Piskorowice carried out on April 18, 1945 by a branch of the National Military Union under the command of Józef Stolierski „Wołyniak”. It was a retaliatory crime for the Wiazownica massacre the day before.
Until 1945 Piskorowice was a village inhabited mainly by Ukrainians. In 1921, there were 2048 Greek Catholic residents, 337 Roman Catholic and 76 Jewish residents. Since the times of the Second Polish Republic, the Polish–Ukrainian conflict has been growing in Piskorowice and its vicinity. In the interwar period, the Polish authorities limited the possibility of economic, cultural and educational development for Ukrainians. Ukrainian cultural, economic and sports societies were banned from operating, and a few Ukrainian schools were closed. In Leżajsk and its vicinity, „Proświta” was banned. In Dębno, the Polish administration dissolved the „Sokił” Society, the „Ług” Sports Society, the District Dairy and liquidated the Ukrainian school (more than 80% of the inhabitants of the village were Ukrainians). „Narodnyj Dim” was closed and sealed in Leżajsk. In Ożanna, the mayor of the commune fought against any manifestations of the national identity of The Ukrainians by all means, and even tried to involve Ukrainian mosquitoes for this purpose. In Kuryłówka, a local teacher introduced Polish children to the church during the church services and made them sing „God, who took care of Poland”. As a result of the conflict, the local Greek Catholic priest, Teodor Góra, was forced to leave Kuryłówka [2].
During the occupation, the German authorities of the General Government clearly favored the development of Ukrainian national life, education and education. The powers obtained then by the Ukrainians significantly exceeded those they had during the Second Polish Republic. At the same time, the occupier limited the rights of Poles. Inhabitants of the Latin rite were hindered in religious practice, and forced labor was assigned on Sundays and holidays. In addition, for the needs of the army and police, the Germans seized most of the „Polish rectory”. Before 1939, only Polish schools operated in Piskorowice – one in the center of the village and the other in the hamlet of Chałupki. Despite the fact that 80% of the population was Ukrainians, there was no Ukrainian–language school. In the fall of 1939, the Germans closed down the school in Chałupki and established the seat of Grenzschutz there. In the second school, apart from the so far existing only classes with Polish as the language of instruction, also classes for Ukrainian children, in which instruction was conducted in Ukrainian [3] [4]. Thanks to the lifting by the Germans of restrictions applied to The Ukrainians during the Second Polish Republic, Ukrainian education and economic life developed rapidly in a short time.
The Poles' bitterness with the September defeat and the occupier's policy in favor of The Ukrainians resulted in a growing mutual dislike. The arrival of a small but educated group of The Ukrainians to Leżajsk, including some with nationalist views, who fled from the Soviet occupation, also contributed to the increase in antagonism. These people significantly strengthened the Ukrainian intelligentsia in the city, some of them took up prominent positions. The Ukrainian language was introduced in the offices and it was used in them on an equal basis with the Polish language. The national activity of The Ukrainians also increased significantly compared to the interwar period. Celebrations of anniversaries related to national heroes and creators of Ukrainian culture were organized. These actions aroused hostility among some Poles, which was also eagerly fueled by the occupier.
At the turn of 1939/1940, an OUN cell was formed in the village. It was headed by Ivan Molody, and his associates were, among others Mykhailo Kurtiak, Iwan Pucyło, Iwan Wołczasty and Wasyl Wołoszyn. The consequences of Molody's membership in the OUN were tragic. On March 28, 1945, Polish partisans from „Wołyniak” came to his house. There they found his 73‑year‑old mother lying in bed. Since she couldn't tell where her son was, she was shot. His brothers were also killed [5]. In the fall of 1941, in Tarnogród, Ukrainian nationalists, with the consent of the German authorities, established a police unit named after its creator, freelancers. They participated in a number of pacification actions in the Biłgoraj county and in raids for hiding Jews.
The first unit of the UPA appeared in the western part of the Sienna forests at the beginning of 1945, previously the Ukrainian partisans had not been active near Piskorowice. On the other hand, a Polish partisan unit functioned here – from 1942 the NOW unit of Franciszek Przysieżniak „Father Jan”, and from the beginning of 1944 also of Józef Przewierski „Wołyniak”. They carried out a series of attacks on Ukrainian police stations, including in Potok Górny and Księżpol. Often, during such actions, policemen were shot. It happened that partisans entered the posts disguised in German uniforms and seized them without firing a single shot. This was the case in Cieplice, where the Ukrainian policemen taken from the post were brought to the cemetery in Ożanna and shot there. It was similar during the action on the German–Ukrainian police station in Obsza with the
The partisans obtained food and clothes by carrying out confiscations in Ukrainian villages (in „Wołyniak” it was called „expeditions to Ukraine”), and less frequently on German farms. In the spring of 1944 „Wołyniak” carried out a several–week–long action to pacify Ukrainian villages near Sieniawa. The actions were carried out at night. On January 14, 1945, his unit surrounded the church in Kulno and, after the Holy Liturgy, carried out an action during which clothes and money were robbed of the outgoing The Ukrainians. At the beginning of 1945, the unit pacified the Ukrainian villages of Ożanna, Dąbrowica, Rzuchów and Cieplice. It also happened that partisans who went on vacation carried out „private” attacks for their own needs. After one such action, a group of NOW „partisans of Father John” organized a libation in Kamionka Górna, which ended with a shooting. Only when a group of Home Army soldiers arrived, they surrounded the house and disarmed the drunken partisans. The actions directed against the civilian population were informed with indignation of the District Commander of SCh–BCh „Zawoja” – Narcissus Wind, especially about the mass robberies committed by „Father John” unit against the Ukrainian population.
These actions increased hostility towards Poles in the Ukrainian community, especially since the Ukrainian civilian population was also killed during the partisan actions. As J. Półćwiartek notes, more and more often the actions of „Wołyniak” took the form of massive and ruthless repressions against The Ukrainians. It was overlapping with the activity of various types of robbery bands (eg Józef Owsik from Leżajsk), which also plundered and murdered the Ukrainian population. At the hands of the „unit of Wołyniak” and robbery gangs, among others, residents of: Rudka, Cewków, Dobra, Dobcza, Kuryłówka, Cieplice, Ożanna, Dąbrówka, Leżajsk, Dąbrowica, Kulno, Wołczasty, Lechman.
The Germans, fighting the Polish partisans, employed Ukrainian police stations and Polish navy blue police for this purpose. According to T. Bereza, at least 13 people died in the vicinity of Piskorowice at the hands of the Ukrainian police in the period from June to July 1944. Some Poles had to go into hiding, e.g. Fr Jan Poręba, a parish priest from Piskorowice.
After the Red Army entered on July 28, 1944, the head of the village, Stepan Szykuła, on the orders of the Soviets, created a guard for the ferry on the Sana River, which included former members of the self–defense. This group was then transformed into the local MO militia, its main task was to protect the inhabitants of Piskorowice. At the turn of summer and autumn 1944, the MO posts from Cieplice, Majdan Sieniawski and Sieniawa began arresting The Ukrainians suspected of being members of the police units. At the end of 1944, Mykoła Wynnyczuk, alias „Kornijczuk” (OUN organizational clerk for the Jarosław poviat) and conducted recruitment campaigns for Ukrainian underground divisions. As a result, the branch of SB–OUN Myrosław Kusznir „Łunia” and SKW „Chwyla” joined several people. In the forests of Sieniawa, these units murdered and robbed 3 foresters. On the night of January 9/10, in the area of Piskorowice, the „Mewy” patrol arrested and shot a forty‑year‑old resident of the village of Wasyl Bliszcza, in whose possession a gun was found (according to T. Bereza, a UPA member with the pseudonym „Szpak”) on January 10, 1945, Fr Poręba.
In mid–March 1945 a UPA unit arrived in the village and organized a rally at which it was forbidden to sign up for repatriation lists to the USSR, and residents were recruited to the units. On March 23, an approximately 100–strong unit of „Wołyniak” surrounded the village with the intention of creating an NOW station subordinate to „Wołyniak”. Several militiamen from the local MO post were shot and in its place an outpost–NOW post was created under the command of Józef Krawczyk, pseud. „Kudłat”, former Home Army member and member of „Wołyniak”. In the following days, the group „Kudłatego” shot dead several people from the families of former police officers of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police.
At the end of March, a UPA freak, Iwan Szpontak „Zalizniak”, launched an offensive against the Poles, attacking 18 MO posts in Lubaczów County on the night of March 27/28 Most of the militia posts in the area of Sieniawskie Forest (including the posts in Cewków and Stary Dzików) were destroyed. The targets of the attacks were not only the Polish administration, but also the civilian population. This caused a reaction from the Polish side – between 10 and 14 April, as a result of fights between the UPA and the cooperating NOW, MO, and post–Home Army self–defense units, about 50 people on both sides were killed. The Poles did not manage to oust the UPA from the Sieniawskie Forests.
On April 17, early in the morning, on the order of „superiors, Zalizniak” carried out a retaliatory action against the Polish village of Wiązownica. The decision was made in retaliation for Polish actions in Ukrainian villages: on February 26 in Kobylnica Ruska (30 inhabitants were killed), on March 20 in Nowy and Stary Lubliniec (about 100 inhabitants were killed), on April 5 in Gorajec (155 inhabitants were killed) [19]. In Wiązownica there was a battle with the local Polish unit, which was helped by the group of B. Gliniak „Radwan”. A total of 91 people died on the Polish side, including 20 women and 20 children, the UPA burnt 150 households.
In connection with the events in Wiązownica, on the same day the NOW command decided to retaliate against Piskorowice, bearing in mind the strategic location of the village and the large concentration of Ukrainian people favoring the OUN.
From April 10, 1945, a resettlement commission was in office in Piskorowice. On April 17, around 7 p.m., the NOW patrol, dressed in Polish Army uniforms, under the command of „Wołyniak”, who pretended to be the commandant of MO from Leżajsk, obtained permission to arrest 6 „Banderites”. Late in the evening, NOW troops were concentrated in Tarnawiec, and Wołyniak informed the gathered that the action would be directed against the UPA. On the night of April 17–18, NOW troops surrounded the village. Part of the unit headed by Wołyniak moved towards the church. There, patrols were assigned to the most important points. The remaining forces headed for the school and farm of the former policeman Szykuła. The blowing up of his house was a signal for a pacification action.
In the school where the inhabitants of Piskorowice and neighboring villages had gathered a few days earlier, there was a displacement commission waiting for deportation to the Ukrainian SSR. She was forced to leave Piskorowice with the security (15 Red Army soldiers). Most of the people in the school were shot, including women and children. At the same time, the remaining The Ukrainians in the village were liquidated. Some people died as a result of the arbitrariness of the attackers or during the escape from the village by members of the cordon surrounding the village. The bodies were buried in various places in and around the village, and others remained where they were hit by bullets (those that were not found immediately after the crime) or were thrown into the San by the murderers.
According to Dr. Bereza, a characteristic feature of this crime is the relationship of the majority of the victims with members of the SS „Galizien”, SKW, UPA, OUN–SB and Ukrainian militias. According to the historian of the Institute of National Remembrance, this allows for the formulation of a thesis that the majority of the victims of Operation „Wołyniak” were on previously prepared proscription lists and collective responsibility was applied to them. According to the same researcher, the crime was not an ethnic cleansing, but rather a revenge and the administration of „justice” against the expected departure of families to the USSR.
Taking advantage of the situation in Piskorowice, „Kudłaty”, after the departure of the „Wołyniak” unit, together with a group of several people began to rob the village and nearby hamlets, committing further killings. He sold the obtained property in towns on the left bank of the San. He invested the obtained money in gold and the purchase of residential buildings. He presented all his activities to the superiors as audit actions. His group did not take part in the Battle of Kuryłówka, because at that time it was busy robbing cattle from the Ukrainians from Cieplice.
On August 7, 1945, the group „Kudłaty” attacked two families living in Rzuchów and Piskorowice: Polish and Ukrainian. About 9 people were killed. Two days later, „Shaggy” was shot in a raid by the UB and MO.
The resettlement action, interrupted by the NOW attack, was resumed in the spring of 1945. By November 15, a total of 1,367 people left Piskorowice. The deserted village was plundered by local residents. On the night of November 5–6, Iwan Szymanski's sotnia „Szuma” burnt Piskorowice. The last remaining residents (65 people) were deported during Action „Wisła”.
The investigation into the crime in Piskorowice (reference number S 75/06 / Zi), conducted since 2006 by the prosecutors of the Rzeszów branch of the Institute of National Remembrance, was discontinued in 2010 (due to the death or failure to identify the perpetrators and the failure to establish the details of the crime). The final number of people killed in the spring of 1945 in Piskorowice has not been established in the course of the proceedings. A list of 178 victims was obtained from the county Police Headquarters in Leżajsk. One of the interrogated witnesses testified that he had obtained information that 172 people had died in the school in Piskorowice, another witness stated that it was said that on April 17, 1945, there were about 300 people at the school. Moreover, during the interrogation, that witness submitted a list of the victims in Piskorowice, which included 106 people. Taking into account the presented circumstances regarding the occurrence of the crime,
An employee of the IPN Public Education Office, Dr. Tomasz Bereza, on the basis of testimonies made by NOW members involved in the murder of The Ukrainians in Piskorowice, information from PUBP in Jarosław in 1949, report of the KPMO in Jarosław on April 20, 1945, entry in the school chronicle and chronicle of the Roman Catholic parish in Piskorowice, established that as a result of the action itself, 120 people died on April 18 (including 100 at the school). The number of victims of the later killings of NOW divisions amounts to several dozen people. Dr. Bereza prepared a list of names of victims with 173 people.
Earlier estimates of the victims: Wiesław Szota, Antoni Szcześniak (1973): 300 people; Fr Władysław Piętowski (1988): 350 people; Ukrainian diaspora, memorial book – „Jarosławszczyna and Zasiannia 1031—1947” (1986): 900—1344 The Ukrainians (including 358 people were to die on April 18, 1945). On the attached list of victims there are only 106 people..

source: „The crime in Piskorowice”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Excerpt from the report „Wisti z terenu” from District II of the Zakerzonya Region for May 1 — June 5, 1945:
„[] May [1945] former policemen from the village of Cieplice murdered  […] Fesiak Mychajło from Piskorowice, 18 and one woman”.

source: „Informacija pro antyukrajinśki akciji na Hrubesziwszczyni w trawni-kwitni 1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 870, 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]

The Ukrainians murdered 3 Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Fragment of the situation report of second lieutenant Jan Łężny, the PUBP manager in Jarosław, of August 26, 1945 about the murder of 7 Ukrainians in Piskorowice by unknown persons:
„On 7.8.1945 at 10 p.m. a group of 15 people armed with automatic machines and in civilian clothes, she broke into the apartment of a Ukrainian, Michał Szalewa, living in Piskorowice, killing all the household members in the apartment, including Michał Szalewa, 70, Maria Szaleva, 65, Iljasz Szaleva, 55, Karolina Szaleva, 25, Katarzyna Ciupa, 12, Paraszka Keller 55 years old and Michał Szalwa, only 6 months old. Moreover, the gang robbed all clothes, one horse, two cows and a cart with a harness”.

source: „Situation Report No. 14 for the period from March 27 to April 7, 1945”; in: „Reports on the activity of PUBP in Jarosław for the years 1944—1946”, Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 04/144, sh. 33

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]

[The Ukrainians] burned down Polish farms and post–Ukrainian farms abandoned after the deportation and murdered 6 Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]