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
Ruszelczyce
Przemyśl pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
26
max.:
26
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09523
date:
1945.03.15
site
description
general info
Ruszelczyce
On March 15, a group of about one hundred people attacked Ruszelczyce (commune of Krzywcza), killing thirteen The Ukrainians (including six children) and wounding three people.
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:
13
min. 13
max. 13
ref. no:
12307
date:
1945.03.15
site
description
general info
Ruszelczyce
1945 March 22, Przemyśl — Fragment of the situational report of the Przemyśl elderman for the Social and Political Department of the Provincial Office in Rzeszów for the period March 5, 1945 — March 20, 1945 concerning the murder in Ruszelkczyce:
„On 15.3. br. around 23.An unknown group of 100 men armed with various types of firearms, fell into the Ruszelczyce group, commune of Krzywicza and, after terrorizing the population, plundered the apartments, and then murdered the following residents:
1. Doszynia Józefa, 32,
2. Klimek Stefan, 48 years old,
3. Marie's Polnik, 41 years old,
4. Stefania Polnik, 15 years old,
5. Tomczyk Maria, 32 years old,
6. Tomczyk Helena, 6 years old,
7. Klimko Olga, 13 years old
8 Klimko Lubka, aged 1,
9. Magpie Jana, aged 56,
10. Magpie Julia, aged 16,
11. Tomczyk Olga, aged 10,
12. Matry Józefa, aged 48,
13. Klimko Anastasia, aged 41
— all of Ukrainian nationality.
Moreover, 3 people, also of Ukrainian nationality, were injured. They took 8 horses from the group, grain, men's and women's clothes from various farmers and drove away in carts towards Dubiecko”.
source: State Archive in Rzeszów, in: UWRz sygn. 373, sh. 14
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]
1945, March 16, Krzywcza. — Situation report of the Krzywcza Commune Board for the County Office in Przemyśl for the period after March 15, 1945:
„On March 15 this year. unknown perpetrators plundered almost all houses in the Ruszelczyce community, as well as shot 13 people of Ukrainian nationality, and seriously injured 4 people. From this group, 8 horses, grain and clothes were taken […]
Leader of the commune
[signature illegible]”
source: State Archive in Przemyśl, in: SPP sygn. 49, sh. 39
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:
13
min. 13
max. 13
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