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
Siedliska
Brzozów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Brzozów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
31
max.:
35
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
17
max.:
17
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12348
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
Siedliska
Excerpt from the memories of Łew Sycz about 20 Ukrainians from Siedliska murdered by bandits and soldiers of the Polish Army:
„Volodymyr Nahirny, 38, was also killed […]
Jewstachij Hłuszyk was murdered on his way back from Germany. He covered such a long and difficult way, and died near Dynów”.
source: „Żertwy złoczynu w Sełyśkach”, Z rozpowidi Łewa Sycza; in: Pańków Maria (ed,), „Our Word”, in: No. 48, 2003, p. 9
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:
12344
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Siedliska
Excerpt from the memories of Łew Sycz about 20 Ukrainians from Siedliska murdered by bandits and soldiers of the Polish Army:
„An even more terrible fate befell Wiktoria Kapitan, mother of four, pregnant with a fifth. In such a state, the Poles expelled her and her children from their own home to the neighboring village of Poręby. They had nowhere to live, cuddle or eat, because the village was burnt down. She decided to return to her hometown Siedliska, to her home, but it is a pity that she returned: she was murdered, pregnant, and her little children Mykhailo — 2 years, Anna — 5, Roman — 7, Yevstachij — 9 years.
At that time, in 1944, Władysław Sycz died with his whole family, and Iwan Sycz (born in 1928) was lost without a trace […]
In 1944, Danyło Stecyk, a rural cultural activist and conductor, was killed in his own home, he taught singing”.
source: „Żertwy złoczynu w Sełyśkach”, Z rozpowidi Łewa Sycza; in: Pańków Maria (ed,), „Our Word”, in: No. 48, 2003, p. 9
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 + 1 family
min. 11
max. 13
ref. no:
12345
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Siedliska
Excerpt from the memories of Łew Sycz about 20 Ukrainians from Siedliska murdered by bandits and soldiers of the Polish Army:
„Iwan Kipisz was lost in 1945, returning from the prison in Brzozów […]
Without a trace, Jarosław Wołyneć was lost in 1945 […]
In the same year, between the villages of Dąbrowa and Siedliska, Maria Uscka, the sister of priest Jewstachy Uscki, died […]
Josyf Rybczak was also missing […]
This year 1945 was also very difficult. Two young boys, 16 years old, also died: Emilijan Rybczak and Emilijan Hawrylak”.
source: „Żertwy złoczynu w Sełyśkach”, Z rozpowidi Łewa Sycza; in: Pańków Maria (ed,), „Our Word”, in: No. 48, 2003, p. 9
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:
12350
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Siedliska
Fragment of Roman Rybczak's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians from Siedliska by soldiers of the Home Army and the Polish Army:
„Soon one day, after lunch, the same bandits came to us again […]
— «Attention!» — 'Wacław' himself shouted. — «We will spare you life! We are displacing you to Poręba. Whoever wishes to return will face the death penalty. And this» — here he caught my brother Omelan, who was 17 on January 27 — «we will leave him as a hostage» […]
We came to some cottage where old people lived […] We had one pregnant woman, Wiktorija Kapitan, she was about to give birth. She told her husband Josyf Kapitan that she had to go to Siedliska to see a midwife. Josyf advised her against it, saying that the executioners could kill her.
— «Let them kill, but I have to go» — decided the woman and went to Siedliska.
She was not far from her home when bandits attacked her. They cruelly murdered her and the four children she was carrying with her. They cut the unborn child out of her body with a bayonet […]
Anna Kulon helped us, she bought medicines in Dynów. Then, apart from medications, she also received terrible news there and told her mother how a friend of her was washing underwear in San river, noticed something stuck on a stone in the water, strange. She came over and saw that it was Omelan, my brother. His back arms and legs were twisted with barbed wire, and his body was pierced in many places with a bayonet. He was murdered by the executioners of the 'Wacław' gang”.
source: „Trahedija w Sełyśkach”, Za rozpowiddiu Romana Rybczaka; in: Pańków Maria (ed,), „Our Word”, in: No. 6, 2004, p. 9
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:
12349
date:
1945.03
site
description
general info
Siedliska
Fragment of Roman Rybczak's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians from Siedliska by soldiers of the Home Army and the Polish Army:
„In March [1945], after the tragedy in Pawlokoma […] , the torturers who murdered people there came to us. They brought two women with their legs in rags and no shoes. One of the bandits ordered my mother to give them food and a place to stay. Mum, whatever she could, fed these poor women with children and put them to bed. In the morning the bandits came for them, took them and took them somewhere. We sensed something wrong. Mom told me to rush the cow to graze. I went with the cow to the cemetery not far from our house. At one point I saw something strange about the potato. I came closer and shook with fear of what I saw: there were the bodies of the women and children who stayed with us”.
source: „Trahedija w Sełyśkach”, Za rozpowiddiu Romana Rybczaka; in: Pańków Maria (ed,), „Our Word”, in: No. 6, 2004, p. 9
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 + dzieci 1 families
min. 4
max. 6
ref. no:
09479
date:
1945.03.02
site
description
general info
Siedliska
The secretary of the Lviv regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the head of the border troops of the NKVD of the Lviv district alerted the secretary of the Central Committee of the CP (b) U about the murders of the Ukrainian population, the perpetrators of which were allegedly local militiamen […] On March 2, Polish soldiers were supposed to burn Siedlisko and shoot the inhabitants […] Although this information does not agree with the data of the Polish side, both in terms of the number of deaths and the dates of events, it points out that the perpetrators were named as the policemen.
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
ref. no:
12346
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Siedliska
Excerpt from the memories of Łew Sycz about 20 Ukrainians from Siedliska murdered by bandits and soldiers of the Polish Army:
„Anna Wacura, 30. She died in 1946”.
source: „Żertwy złoczynu w Sełyśkach”, Z rozpowidi Łewa Sycza; in: Pańków Maria (ed,), „Our Word”, in: No. 48, 2003, p. 9
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:
12347
date:
1946.01.07–1946.01.10
site
description
general info
Siedliska
Excerpt from the memories of Łew Sycz about 20 Ukrainians from Siedliska murdered by bandits and soldiers of the Polish Army:
„Somewhat later, on January 7–10, 1946, the Polish Army murdered Mykola Sycz (born in 1912) ”.
source: „Żertwy złoczynu w Sełyśkach”, Z rozpowidi Łewa Sycza; in: Pańków Maria (ed,), „Our Word”, in: No. 48, 2003, p. 9
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:
10854
date:
1946.02.13
site
description
general info
Siedliska
In the village of Siedliska, poviat Brzozów local Ukrainians and members of SKW [ukr. Самооборонні кущові відділи — Ukrainian self–defense unit] from Jawornik Ruski robbed Polish farms and murdered Jan Buczek.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – February 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: Fr Nabywaniec Stanisław, Fr Jan Rogula (Rzeszów Uniwersity), „Over the blue San. And so it was in Polish-Ukrainian relations until 1947.”; in: Krupa Jan (ed.), „Sustainable tourism as an opportunity to protect the natural environment, cultural heritage and economic development of the communes of the Dynowskie Foothills”, in: Dynów 2014, p. 203—226 — web page: www.pogorzedynowskie.pl [accessible: 2021.06.10]
On February 13, 1946, the Banderites murdered Józef Dziwik in Siedliska.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – February 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: Fr Nabywaniec Stanisław, Fr Jan Rogula (Rzeszów Uniwersity), „Over the blue San. And so it was in Polish-Ukrainian relations until 1947.”; in: Krupa Jan (ed.), „Sustainable tourism as an opportunity to protect the natural environment, cultural heritage and economic development of the communes of the Dynowskie Foothills”, in: Dynów 2014, p. 203—226 — web page: www.pogorzedynowskie.pl [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1+1
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11221
date:
1946.08.13
site
description
general info
Siedliska
The SKW gang [Samooboronny Kushchovy Vidilly — Ukrainian 'self–defense'] from Jawornik Ruski and the local Banderites robbed Polish farms and murdered 3 Poles, including Michał Tucki, age 60.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
11224
date:
1946.08.16
site
description
general info
Siedliska
The local Ukrainians and the SKW gang [Samooboronny Kushchovy Vidilly — Ukrainian 'self–defense'] from Jawornik Ruski once again robbed Polish farms and murdered 3 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
11246
date:
1946.09.06
site
description
general info
Siedliska
The UPA robbed and burned a Polish farm and murdered a Polish family of three named Chodocki.
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
11250
date:
1946.09.08
site
description
general info
Siedliska
[Ukrainians] burned down a few buildings and murdered 6 Poles.
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:
6
min. 6
max. 6
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