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
Polchowa
Przemyśl pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
40
max.:
43
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
1
max.:
1
events (incidents)
ref. no:
10125
date:
1945.05–1945.06
site
description
general info
Polchowa
Poles – 1 person died at the hands of the Ukrainians.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
12253
date:
1945.05.25
site
description
general info
Polchowa
The hamlet of Połchowa:
„Fragment of the indictment of Poles guilty of murdering Ukrainians prepared by a member of the administration of District I of the Zakerzonya Region 'Falcon' — 'Bohdana'
[…] On May 25, 1945, an armed Polish band arrived in the village of Połkhowa, took a local Ukrainian, Iwan Kozar, the 16‑year‑old girl Kosar Anastazija, whom they murdered”.
source: „Akt obwynuwaczennia polakiw pryczetnych do znyszczennia ukrajinciw”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 892, 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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10078
date:
1945.06.18
site
description
general info
Polchowa
On June 18, 1945, the Bandera followers killed two Polish women.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „The report of the MO in Przemyśl from June 19, 1945”; in: State Archive in Przemyśl, in: ref. No. 80, sh. 17
source: „Raids and military actions of the "Burlak" sotnya”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: Acta IPN Rz 051/217, sh. 126
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
10370
date:
1945.10.19–1945.10.20
site
description
general info
Polchowa
The UPA burned 2 Polish farms and murdered 3 families; ie 15 Poles. Others: October 18, 1945 in Polchowa around At 11.00 p.m., a 60–person unit from „Hromenki” murdered the 12–person Wawrzek family and Wasyl Haluka, who stayed at their house. The following persons named Wawrzko were murdered: Anna, Paweł, Michał, Władysław, Katarzyna, Salomea, Jan, Józef, Tadeusz, Weronika, Maria and Rozalia. After the crime, the bodies were burned in two houses belonging to the murdered. 5 heads of cattle, clothes and household utensils were also stolen. According to the testimony of family members murdered in the murder, they took, among others, The participation of the following Bandera followers: Dionizy Horbowy, Paweł Łoś „Rubacz” (commander of the 3rd party), Milik, Wasyl Kozior (Koziara?) and Wasyl Chomka. The body of one of the victims was packed with harrows. The bodies of the murdered were buried in the Dubiecko cemetery. In the documents produced after the murder, various dates, facts and circumstances of death were given, not necessarily truthful. And so, on October 20, 1945, we have information that two families, putting up armed resistance to the Ukrainians, were murdered by the SB. Among the 15 murdered were: Anna Wawszko (this is how the name was incorrectly spelled in the original), 78, Jan Wawszko, 22, Paweł Wawszko, 57, Katarzyna Wawszko, 59, Rozalia Wawszko, 15, Michał Wawszko, 33, Maria Wawszko, 18, Władysław Wawszko, 17, Józef Wawszko, 15, Tadeusz Wawszko, 8, Stefan Wawszko, Józef Wawszko, Mieczysław Wawszko, Bazyli Hałajko, Helena Śliwińska. According to another source, the attack is dated on October 19, 1945, when the Bandera followers burned down one farm belonging to Mikołaj and Samuel Wawrzko. 13 Poles were bound with barbed wire and thrown into the fire, they all died. The date of the murder on September 27/28, 1946, in which 16 Poles were killed, is also given. Apart from the Wawrzko family, the Tereszczak family of 3–4 people also died (the information is not true regarding the death of the Tereszczak family). The village was completely burnt down. On the other hand, according to other studies, a different set of people who were murdered by the UPA is given: Anna Wawrzko, Jan Wawrzko, Paweł Wawrzko, Salomea Wawrzko, Katarzyna Wawrzko, Rozalia Wawrzko, Michał Wawrzko, Maria Wawrzko, Władysław Wawrzko, Józef Wawrzko, Tadeusz Wawrzko, Vasyl Haluko. Apart from the Wawrzko family, the Tereszczak family of 3–4 people also died (the information is not true regarding the death of the Tereszczak family). The village was completely burnt down. On the other hand, according to other studies, a different set of people who were murdered by the UPA is given: Anna Wawrzko, Jan Wawrzko, Paweł Wawrzko, Salomea Wawrzko, Katarzyna Wawrzko, Rozalia Wawrzko, Michał Wawrzko, Maria Wawrzko, Władysław Wawrzko, Józef Wawrzko, Tadeusz Wawrzko, Vasyl Haluko. Apart from the Wawrzko family, the Tereszczak family of 3–4 people also died (the information is not true regarding the death of the Tereszczak family). The village was completely burnt down. In turn, according to other studies, a different set of people who were murdered by the UPA is given: Anna Wawrzko, Jan Wawrzko, Paweł Wawrzko, Salomea Wawrzko, Katarzyna Wawrzko, Rozalia Wawrzko, Michał Wawrzko, Maria Wawrzko, Władysław Wawrzko, Józef Wawrzko, Tadeusz Wawrzko, Vasyl Haluko.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „The UPA was not an army - it was a gang murdering helpless and innocent victims, including Ukrainians ”; in: Association for the Commemoration of the Victims of the Crimes of Ukrainian Nationalists in Wrocław — web page: suozun.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
13 – 16
min. 13
max. 16
ref. no:
11114
date:
1946.06
site
description
general info
Polchowa
In the village of Polchowa, poviat Przemyśl, in June 1946, the Bandera followers tied the Tereszczak family of five, parents and three children to a tree, and then tortured them, including burning them with fire. Finally, they tied the macabrely mutilated bodies with barbed wire and threw them into the San river. The remains were seen in the water near Nienadowa by 11‑year‑old Tomasz Blecharczyk, 15‑year‑old Teodor Grzegorzek and 14‑year‑old Edward Szymański.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: „The UPA was not an army - it was a gang murdering helpless and innocent victims, including Ukrainians ”; in: Association for the Commemoration of the Victims of the Crimes of Ukrainian Nationalists in Wrocław — web page: suozun.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
11272
date:
1946.09.28
(during the night)
site
description
general info
Polchowa
The UPA robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered 5 Poles: a woman and a family of 4; the Ukrainians tied their victims with barbed wire and threw them alive into the fire.
„On September 28, 1946, OUN–UPA activists attacked the non–existent village of Polchowa in the commune of Dubiecko. The 14‑person Wawrzek family was burnt alive at that time. One of the people who survived the bloody murder in the village that no longer exists today was 11‑year‑old Tomasz Blecharczyk. In his memoirs about the murder in Polchowa, he wrote in the weekly 'Przegląd'. On September 28, 1946, the 14‑person Wawrzek family died at the hands of the Banderites: They surrounded houses and burned the inhabitants alive. Before the burial, a huge box with the remains of the burnt victims was displayed in the Dubiecko cemetery as a proof of the UPA's bestiality. I went there with my father to find out what the nationalists from the OUN–UPA were capable of. For someone who has not seen this chest with human remains with his own eyes, it is not easy to believe today this macabre image of the victims of human bestiality. Ukrainian nationalists modeled themselves on the Nazi genocide and often outdistanced the Nazis in their methods of operation, especially in sophisticated forms of torture, as many as there are days in a year. The mass grave of these victims exists in the Dubiecka cemetery. This topic has been raised many times by historians. Among the murders committed by the Bandera followers in 1946 in Polchowa, there is also the case of the murder in which the Tereszczak family fell victim to the murder at that time. They were tied to a tree with barbed wire, they were all set on fire alive, and then thrown into the San”.
source: Pomykała Izabela, „Dubiecko: Anniversary of the UPA attack on the village of Polchowa”; in: „It is happening in Podkarpacie”, in: September 28, 2018 — web page: dziejesienapodkarpaciu.pl [accessible: 2022.04.02]
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:
19
min. 19
max. 19
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