The UPA massacred 23 Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The Banderites robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered 25 Poles (others: 34 Poles).

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Report of the Ukrainian underground from May 1944 concerning anti–Polish actions concerning the Rawa Ruska district: „Similar news regarding the number of Poles liquidated by UPA units: Potoki [?] – 3 (places [owi]), Lubycza–Kołajce – 3 (places [owi]), Huta Lubycka – 2 (unknown [neither]), Lubycza – 10 (escaped [iniers]), Potylicz – 13 (places [s]), Dagany Wiel [kie] – 2 (unknown [nor]), Werchrata – 1 (places [s]), Rzeczyca – 8 (3 places [s], 5 unknowns), Domaszów – 2 (1 places [s], 1 unknown), Bruckenthal – 2 (unknown [neither]), Ostobuż – 1 woman (places [s]), Choronów – 1 (places [s]), Sałasze – 1 (places [s]), Tehlów – 15 and 4 women (– places [s]) and 44 (unknown [ani]), Wierzbica – 3 (places [s]), Chodywaniece – 9 (unknown [neither]), Zaborze – 30 (places [s] and unknown [nor]), Rzyczki – 15 (places [s] and unknown [nor])”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „The report of the Ukrainian underground from May 1944 concerning anti-Polish actions”; in: „Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s”, in: Warsaw-Kiev 2005, vol. 4, part 2, p. 159 — web page: zbrodniawolynska.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

In the villages of: Dąbrowa, Posadów, Rzeczyca, Rzepin, Ulhówek, county Tomaszów Lubelski, 71 partisans of the Home Army died in the fights with the UPA and about 100 were wounded. „at the end of May 1944, the intelligence of the Tomaszów Home Army AK region informed about the decisive attack on the eastern line of Polish troops in the Tyszowce–Łaszczów–Jarczów section, prepared by the UPA. In view of the approaching eastern front, it was the last opportunity for the Ukrainians to mass liquidate the Polish population. In that region, the UPA command had two knights from the Bohun. There were also readies of Mirosław Onyszkiewicz, «Orest», consisting of four sotnyas («Bradziahi», «Hałajda», «Jastrunna» and «Korsak»), kurin «Chernyk» consisting of three sotnyas («Karpy», «Bahrianyja» and «Wowki»), sotnyas «Jahoda» and «Zaliźniak» On June 1, in the afternoon, Polish troops started to take their starting positions for the attack. What were the findings? as we read in the book «Partisan Country» by Jerzy Markiewicz, Polish troops were to develop an attack from the side of Huczwa over an area of approx. 50 km – from Tyszowce to Jarczów. The main attack was to be aimed at Ulhówek. There were large and well–equipped enemy forces, as well as the staff of the Ukrainian grouping. The capture of Ulhówek would be tantamount to breaking the position of the Banderites, which made it possible to break up many UPA units and throw them away to the east. The battle took place on June 2. The heaviest fights took place in the area of Ulhówek, Rzeczyca and Posadowo. The UPA had a decisive advantage, in addition, the Ukrainians were helped by the Germans, bombarding Polish troops along the lines of ongoing fighting. On the Polish side, 71 soldiers died and around 100 were wounded. and although the Polish partisans did not manage to break through the lines occupied by the UPA kurena and throw the enemy troops to the east, the attack on Ulhówek, Rzeczyca and Posad paralyzed the offensive preparations of the Ukrainians. Until the end of the occupation, UPA kurenas did not undertake any long–range offensive actions or operations. This bloody battle prevented the UPA from breaking into the Zamość region”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „70. anniversary of Posadów, Rzeczyca, Podlodowo, Ulhówek battles” — web page: kultura.laszczow.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

The German air force bombed the field hospitals in the Bukowiec forest, Pawłówka, Kolonia Muratyn and the Paszkiewicz farm. The all–day bloody battle ended around 4 pm. During its duration, the villages of Posadów, Szlatyn, Łubcze, Żerniki, Rzeczyca, Podlodów and part of Ulhówek were burnt down, and the village of Zimno was burnt during the retreat. In the evening hours, all groups began to retreat, retreating to the line of the Huczwa River.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Polish Home Army AK soldiers died in the fight against the UPA: Guzowski Sigismud died on June 2, 1944 near Rzeczyca, Nowak Ryszard died in a fight with the Ukrainian police in Telatyn, Ochman Jan Żołn. The Home Army died near Dąbrowa, Tatarka Jerzy soldiers. The Home Army AK died near Dąbrowa. In the village of Krzywostok „on June 2, 1944, soldiers of the Home Army AK: Kot NN and Kurzępa Hipolit aged 32 died in the fight against the UPA in the area of the village of Rzeczyca”. In the village and in the colony of Księżostany: „on June 2, 1944, Home Army AK soldiers died in the fight against the UPA near the village of Rzeczyca: Miller Bogdan age 31, nom–de–guerre «Bocheński» and Nawrocki Stanisław–Bogdan aged 20, nom–de–guerre «Szczygiel»”. In the village of Podhucie, commune Tarnawatka: „On June 2, 1944, a soldier of the Home Army AK: Szary NN, age 29, comissioned soldier of the Polish Army, was killed in the fight against the UPA near Rzeczyca”. In the village of Przewale, commune Tyszowce: „On June 2, 1944 a partisan from Jan Ochman's unit: NN, pseudonym «Herman»”. In the village of Telatyn: „on 2 June 2004, soldiers of the Home Army AK died in the fight against the UPA: Modrzejewski Józef, 19 near the village of Rzeczyca, Modrzejewski Marian, 21 near the village of Rzeczyca, Kość Karol near the village of Rzepin”. In the village of Tyszowce: „on June 2, 1944 he died in a fight with the UPA near the village of Dąbrowa, district Hrubieszów, a Home Army AK soldier: Bojarski Bronisław, 30”. In the village of Werechanie, commune Rachanie: „On June 2, 1944, soldiers of the Home Army AK died in the fight against the UPA near the village of Rzeczyca: 1. Czarnecki Ryszard, 2. Ligęż Jerzy”. In the village of Witków, commune Poturzyn: „On June 2, 44 two soldiers of the Home Army AK died in the fight against the UPA near Rzeczyca, both from the Telatyn company: Dębiński Antoni, nom–de–guerre «Cloud», Sapa Stanisław”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8

Excerpt from the report „Wisti z terenu” of April 18, 1945:
„March 1945, the Polish militia shot one conscious Ukrainian in Rzeczyca”.

source: „Wytiah iz Wistej z terenu pro antyukrajinśki akciji polakiw na Hrubesziwszczyni w berezni1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 860, 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]

Fragment of an anonymous work „Korotka istorija seła Riczyci” [Eng. „Short history of Rzeczyca village”] about the murder of 12 Ukrainians in Rzeczyca by Soviet border guards and MO:
„The raids have begun. At the beginning of the spring of 1945, at the end of March, the Bolshevik border guards came with the Polish militia. People dug bunkers outside the village and in the field. The others went and looked for these shelters, killing 12 people, including a 14‑year‑old boy escaping from Żerniki”.

source: „Korotka istorija seła Riczyci”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 2, sh. 251

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]

Excerpt from the report „Wisti z terenu” from District II of the Zakerzonya Region for May 1 — June 5, 1945:
„On May 15, the Polish police conducted manhunts in the villages of Rzeczyca and Ulhówek. One man was murdered during the operation”.

source: „Informacija pro antyukrajinśki akciji na Hrubesziwszczyni w trawni-kwitni 1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 870, 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]

On the Uhnów – Rzeczyca road, poviat Lubaczów, 12 soldiers of the Polish Army were killed in a UPA ambush.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]

source: Motyka Grzegorz, „So it was in Bieszczady. Polish-Ukrainian battles in 1943-1948.”, in: Volumen Publishing House, Warsaw 1999, Warsaw 1999, p. 349

The UPA kidnapped and murdered Maria Lewandowska.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]

The UPA massacred 2 Poles who had settled there after Operation 'Vistula'.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]