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
Radruż
Rawa Ruska pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
45
max.:
45
Perpetrators:
Russians and Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
15
max.:
15
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
7
max.:
7
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles and Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
3
max.:
3
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07179
date:
1944.04–1944.05
site
description
general info
Radruż
At the turn of April and May 1944, they murdered 17 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
17
min. 17
max. 17
ref. no:
06261
date:
1944.04.04
site
description
general info
Radruż
The local Ukrainians murdered Franciszek Bochno.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 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:
06540
date:
1944.04.23
site
description
general info
Radruż
Greek Catholic Easter – they murdered 13 Poles and 1 Ukrainian. „The hamlet of Radruża Jamnice, which is now on the Ukrainian side, was a place where Poles lived. On April 23, 1944, people from Jamnice were gathering in their hiding places in the evening, but unfortunately they did not make it this time. A Ukrainian from a neighboring village stopped them, giving the Bandera followers time to circle the village. Suddenly they came from all sides to the village and gathered the inhabitants in one place. One of the lying Poles decided to flee because he knew they would shoot him soon. The UPA started shooting after him, but he escaped and hid in the attic of one of the houses. This caused a panic and the others started to flee, the UPA started chasing them. Some managed to escape, others were brutally murdered. Józef Ryba was stabbed with a knife and shot with a firearm. Julian, Jan and Kazimierz Benedyk were murdered in the mill. Also died: Wojciech Jacek, Franciszek Jacek, Kazimierz Ryba, Katarzyna Zelik, Jan Hałucha. The UPA set the houses on fire and began to rob them at the same time. They stole food and more valuable items, and at the same time made fun of the Poles in various perfidious ways. In the distance you could hear screams, cries, roars of animals and continuous shots. Many The Ukrainians from Radruż were happy to see this. Then they completed the robbery by taking everything they could, even the hives with bees”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „In Radruż they will commemorate the inhabitants murdered by the UPA ”; in: portal: zlubaczowa.pl — web page: zlubaczowa.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
Myrosław Onyszkewycz „Orest Karat” gave the order: „I order you to purge your area immediately from the Polish element and Ukrainian–Bolshevik agents. The purge should be carried out in riverside hostels sparsely populated by Poles. To this end, create a militia near the area, composed of our members, whose task would be to eliminate the above–mentioned. Our larger hostels will be cleared of this element by our military units even in broad daylight […] The clearing of the area must be completed before our Easter so that we can celebrate it without Poles. Remember that when the Bolsheviks find us with Poles in our territory, they will slaughter us all […] Make a hard, ruthless fight with them. Not to spare anyone, even in mixed marriages. To take Lachs out of their houses, but The Ukrainians and children in these houses should not be liquidated […] Get the gun. Death to the Poles. Stop, April 6, 1944. Glory to the heroes! Orest, Karat” This order is in the files of the investigation against Myroslav Onyshhevych.
source: Miszko Przemysław, Matkowski Krzysztof, „Crimes of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Eastern Lesser Poland in 1939—1945 against persons of Polish nationality - in the light of investigations by OKŚZPNP in Wrocław”; in: „Crimes of the past, studies and materials of IPN prosecutors”, in: Warszawa 2008, vol. 2 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
14
min. 14
max. 14
ref. no:
07001
date:
1944.05.06
site
description
general info
Radruż
The UPA murdered 2 Poles, including a woman.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 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:
07535
date:
1944.06
site
description
general info
Radruż
Stefan Gołąb was murdered.
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:
07468
date:
1944.06.30
site
description
general info
Radruż
[The Ukrainians] murdered a Polish family of five with their daughters, aged 13, 14 and 17. „After the murder in Jamnica, cards were nailed to Polish homes with the message that they were to immediately leave the San River, otherwise they would be killed. Poles decided to leave, practically only The Ukrainians remained. Many did not expect that the UPA would also look for information about mixed Polish—Ukrainian families. For them, a Ukrainian had to be ethnically pure, if he had any part of Polish roots, he was considered a Pole. That is why in June 1944 the Banderites came to the Romanik house and murdered the family by tormenting their victims. The neighbors must have heard very well the terrifying screams and screams of the murdered, which in turn faded. but did not react, they killed Stefan, Zofia and their daughters: Maria and Jadwiga. Romanik was a Ukrainian, they murdered his daughters and his wife, who was Polish, before his eyes. In the end they killed him. The same night they also killed Teodor Gołąb, because he had a Polish mother. Roman Jakimiec also had Polish roots, he was the head of the village of Radruż. The UPA ordered him to organize a contingent, he was to collect food, clothes and money from people. He didn't, and that's why they killed him after abusing him”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „In Radruż they will commemorate the inhabitants murdered by the UPA ”; in: portal: zlubaczowa.pl — web page: zlubaczowa.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
07760
date:
1944.08.10
site
description
general info
Radruż
The Ukrainians murdered Michał Majdan.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 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:
12286
date:
1944.08.28
site
description
general info
Radruż
Fragment of the memoirs of Fr. Myrosław Myszczyszyn about the murders of Ukrainians in Lubaczów by armed formations of the Republic of Poland:
„In the spring of 1945, sometime in January, Dr. Huczko […] left Cieszanów. Doctor Huczko suffered the most, because on August 30, some Mongols or others, led by Poles, attacked Radruż and murdered Fr. Huczka, his wife and daughter Sławcia, and many people in the village, who were then plundered and set on fire”.
source: „Spohad o. Myrosława Myszczyszyna, katecheta w Lubaczewi w 1940-1945 rokach”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 337—340
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]
Huczko Bazyli: shot to the head by the Russians in the courtyard of the rectory during the pacification of the village (earlier in the village the genocidal Ukrainian organization OUN/UPA murdered 17 Poles).
Then his wife and daughter were murdered, along with 12 inhabitants of the village of Radruż.
The rectory was set on fire and the bodies of his wife and daughter were thrown into the fire.
According to some sources, Ukrainian partisans from the genocidal OUN / UPA organization were murdered by Ukrainian guerrillas disguised as Russian soldiers and received in the presbytery, but there was an argument that led to the murder.
Sources add that after the German attack on June 22, 1941 on his former ally, the Russians, he was to erect a welcome gate in his village in honor of the German troops.
Later he was supposed to support the genocidal Ukrainian organization OUN / UPA, „bless knives and axes on Poles”, preach „sermons encouraging murdering Poles and Jews”.
source: GTKRK, „Fr Bazyli Huczko”; in: portal: «The White Book». Martyrology of the clergy - Poland. XX century (1914-1989), St Sigismund parish in Słomczyn — web page: www.swzygmunt.knc.pl [accessible: 2020.03.15]
Fragments of K. Wasylkewycz's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Sucha Wola and other villages by soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces, members of MO and bands from neighboring Polish villages:
„Again in the village of Radruż near Horyniec, the Lubaczów district (formerly Rawa Ruska) threw the parish priest Huczka into the fire, his wife and his daughter Sławcia for finding a hiding a «banderite» in the heap, who was also burned”.
source: Wasylkewycz K., „Spohady”, b.m., b.d.; in: Bogdan Huk's archive, in: , p. 23, 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
Russians and Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
15
min. 15
max. 15
ref. no:
09922
date:
1945.05.03
site
description
general info
Radruż
The local Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles: a married couple. „When in 1945 the Soviet army passed through our neighborhood, driving out the Germans and depriving the Banderites of free action, Poles began to return to their farms from across the San. In many cases, there was nothing to go back to, because everything was burned and looted. Therefore, people were looking for flats, for example, in Horyniec, from where they traveled to their fields in Radruż, where they hayed and planted potatoes, so as not to go hungry. Unfortunately, the UPA hid in the forests and continued their terrorist activities, wanting to continue killing Poles. Franciszek Zelik with his wife Anna and three children lived temporarily in the building of the old forester's lodge behind the court theater. During the day they traveled to their fields in Radruż, like many others who returned, and at night they returned and slept in Horyniec. On May 3, 1945, the UPA waited in the Dębisko forest, between Horyniec and Radruż, in the evening and waited. Franciszek and his wife Anna were returning from the field, the attackers jumped out of the ambush and shot them. It was not until the next day that Franciszek's brother found their bodies. He put them in the ruined building of the Court Theater, where the Horyanians used to go to mourning prayers. They were buried in the cemetery in Horyniec. In addition to the above–mentioned ones, also: Michał Majdan, Antoni Hejnowicz, Jan Buczko, Michał Bodnar, Jan Jakimiec, two Ukrainians: Tadeusz Jacyna and Grzegorz Taraban were also killed in Radruż”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „In Radruż they will commemorate the inhabitants murdered by the UPA ”; in: portal: zlubaczowa.pl — web page: zlubaczowa.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
12285
date:
1945.12.30
site
description
general info
Radruż
May (?) 1946, [typescript] — Excerpt from a report by Mykhail Borys 'Żan', a political clerk of the II region in the Zakerzonya Region II Region, about the murders of Ukrainians in Radruż […] :
„December 30, 1945, Polish Army (stormmovie) together with 200 people from Horyniec, Basznia and Lubaczów carried out a terrorist action in the countryside. During the action, the men who did not run away and hide were caught and chased away by Hi Tymek in the orchard. There they put them in a row, and the lieutenant said that the action was carried out because of the murder of the village leader and secretary of the group yesterday. Then 6 men were assigned and ordered to go aside, and the rest were sent home, except for 8 who were taken to Lubaczów for interrogation. The six men who were left behind were rushed to the church, where they were shot. They were:
Dyda Wasyl — aged 54;
Dudnewycz Mychajło — 19;
Ozymok Wasyl — 21;
Ozymok Hryhorij — 34;
Straczak Ołeksa — 39;
Stelmach Maksym — 51 […]
On December 30, 1945, the Polish Army displacing Ukrainians from the Lubaczowszczyzna in order to force the villagers to leave, robbed and terrorized them. Then he murdered a peasant Gałania Semka — 68 years old”.
source: „Informacija pro ukrajinśki seła ta jich meszkanciw, szczo postradały w rezultati polśkych napadiw”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 929, 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:
7
min. 7
max. 7
ref. no:
11478
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Radruż
[The UPA] murdered 1 Pole and 2 Ukrainians: Jan Jakimec so. Stefan, Jacyna and Taraban.
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 and Ukrainians
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
11175
date:
1946.07.04
site
description
general info
Radruż
The Banderites murdered a Ukrainian, Dmitri Rabik.
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 – July 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.24]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11589
date:
1947.05.14
site
description
general info
Radruż
The local Ukrainians murdered Antoni Hejnowicz, b. 1935.
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 – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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