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
Ruska Wieś
Przemyśl pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
37
max.:
37
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
10
max.:
10
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12305
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
Ruska Wieś
Excerpts from Ivan Pell's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Ruska Wieś:
„In Przysada, a hamlet of Ruska Wieś, [the Poles] killed brothers Andrzej and Mieczysław Chomik”.
source: Pello Iwan, „Chołodnojarśki spomyny”; in: „Zakerzonnia”, in: Warszawa 1996, vol. 2, p. 139, in: transl. B. Huk
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
10773
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Ruska Wieś
The Ukrainians murdered 5 Poles, including 4 soldiers of the Polish Army.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
12306
date:
1945.01
site
description
general info
Ruska Wieś
Excerpts from Ivan Pell's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Ruska Wieś:
„Soon after the Jordan holiday in 1945, I stayed in my village at Tyciak's […] Suddenly a girl from Iskanin burst in:
— «Poles are coming!»
Everyone ran towards the forest, and that's where the Poles came from. I heard shots coming from under the forest, so with three other boys I ran towards the old Soviet border post. One, with the help of the other, we hid in the attic, which was 4 meters from the floor. And the Poles were just around the corner. We were sitting behind a thick chimney, armed with a scythe we found there. It is not known how, but the Poles also climbed into the attic. One went to the chimney, did not see us and turned back. When we got off we saw 4 of our boys killed. Five other Poles were killed in the forest. The attacker was MO and a unit of Peasants' Battalions. This is how Ruska Wieś repaid for the care of Masuria, which was later liquidated by the 'Zatoka' militia. The victims were 13‑17 years old, so they had nothing to do with the UPA. They were brothers Miron and Bohdan Iskanin, Sławko Tchir, Nahajski, Iwan Kopko, Hryhorij Pello, Iwan Hilkewicz, Antin Bobenko (Pole) and others whose names I do not remember. We picked up the bodies of the dead, we consoled their parents, and we were still hiding in the woods for a few people”.
source: Pello Iwan, „Chołodnojarśki spomyny”; in: „Zakerzonnia”, in: Warszawa 1996, vol. 2, p. 139, in: transl. B. Huk
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:
9
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
12304
date:
1945.02.22
site
description
general info
Ruska Wieś
Fragment of a field report by an OUN clerk about the murder of 6 Ukrainians in Ruska Wieś by members of MO from Dubiecko:
„On February 22, 1945, the police from Dubiecko attacked Ruska Wieś. She circled it, killed 6 men and plundered clothes, shoes and many other things”.
source: „Wisti z terenu”, b.d.; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 2, sh. 287
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:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
09465
date:
1945.02.24–1945.02.28
site
description
general info
Ruska Wieś
„There has been an attack on the Ruska Village”. Elsewhere: „The secretary of the Lviv regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the head of the border troops of the NKVD in the Lviv district alerted the secretary of the Central Committee of the CP (b) U about the murders of the Ukrainian population by local militiamen. In Trójczyce on February 24 they killed twenty in Ruska Wieś […] Although this information does not agree with the data of the Polish side, both in terms of the number of killed and the date of events, it points out that” militiamen were named as perpetrators.
source: Pisuliński Jan, „The Polish-Ukrainian conflict in the Przemyśl poviat in winter and spring 1945 and the participation of Roman Kisiel 'Vulture' group in it” — web page: www.polska1918-89.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
20
min. 20
max. 20
ref. no:
10127
date:
1945.05–1945.06
site
description
general info
Ruska Wieś
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:
10068
date:
1945.06.11
site
description
general info
Ruska Wieś
The UPA murdered Antoni Kurasz.
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:
10079
date:
1945.06.18
site
description
general info
Ruska Wieś
The Ukrainians murdered 2 Polish women who were returning from Tarnawka.
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
10198
date:
1945.07.30
site
description
general info
Ruska Wieś
The Ukrainians murdered Stanisław Radoń, severely wounded his father and severely beat his mother.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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