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
Piwoda
Jarosław pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Piwoda
Jarosław cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
8
max.:
8
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
0
max.:
3
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04625
date:
1944.01.11
site
description
general info
Piwoda
Jan Maciałek, 21, was murdered by Ukrainian policemen.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 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:
12411
date:
1945.04.22
alternatively:
15.09.1945
site
description
general info
Excerpt from the report of the interrogation of Volodymyr Gałan from Wiązownica on May 6, 1946 by an OUN SB employee about the murder of the Ukrainians of Surochów by gang from the Polish village of Wiązownica:
„Płonka Henryk, a Pole belonging to the Polish terrorist group 'Radwan', who murdered the Ukrainian population in the Jarosław poviat, and who was sitting with me in a prison in Jarosław in April 1946, told me that while still in this unit he took a Ukrainian priest from the village of Surochów with his wife and son. He said that they were shot in the village of Piwoda in the district and all three were buried behind the barn of the Polish farmer Żołyniak”.
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, Cop. VII b (169), sh. 96
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]
Polish translation of information by Michał Szkilnyk about the murder of Ukrainians in the village of Surochów, included in the collection „Jarosław and Beyond the Sun river regions” from 1986:
„On September 15, 1945, Polish bands of great strenght attacked Surochów. On this tragic Sunday, Fr Mykhailo Płachta held a service in the local church. The bandits burst into the church, made a scream, interrupted the service, took the priest from the altar. They also arrested the priest's wife and son Jurek. After being bound with barbed wire, they first severely beat the arrested people, then led them for interrogation to the village of Piwoda, where they again abused them terribly. Then they rushed everyone to Szówsko and there, having stripped everyone naked, publicly raped Fr Płachta's wife, finally they shot them all”.
source: „Surochów”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 229—230
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:
09827
date:
1945.04.23
site
description
general info
Piwoda
A Pole, Jan Plewiak, was murdered by the UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 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:
11153
date:
1946.01.26
site
description
general info
Piwoda
In the village of Piwoda, poviat Jarosław, [the Ukrainians] murdered 2 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1946”; in: „Borderlands Information Service” — web page: ksi.btx.pl [accessible: 2021.06.18]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11155
date:
1946.01.29
site
description
general info
Piwoda
In the village of Piwoda, poviat Jarosław, Michał Rapita was murdered by the Ukrainians.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1946”; in: „Borderlands Information Service” — web page: ksi.btx.pl [accessible: 2021.06.18]
source: Golba Mieczysław (lead ed.), „Wiązownica remembers”, in: Wiązownica 2013 — web page: www.mieczyslawgolba.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11277
date:
1946.09
site
description
general info
Piwoda
Two soldiers from 40th Platoon of Light Artillery of the 9th Infantry Division were killed in the fight against the UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11280
date:
1946.10.01
site
description
general info
Piwoda
Stanisław Czeczuk, b. 23.04.1923, 40th Light Artillery Regiment, 9th Infantry Division of Polish Army gunner was murdered not far away from the village.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.26]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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