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
Sieniawka
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Sieniawka
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
general info
locality resettled
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
4
max.:
4
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
25
max.:
28
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09125
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Sieniawka
The Ukrainians murdered Andrzej Sikorski, born in 1896 and Michał Sikorski born 1928.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
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]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
06873
date:
1944.04
site
description
general info
Sieniawka
The Ukrainians from the SKW murdered 2 Poles.
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
12360
date:
1945.01.05
site
description
general info
Sieniawka
Fragment of the memories of Mychajła Podilczak and Marija Połochajło about the murder of 1 Ukrainian by MO in Sieniawka:
„The second son of [Hilarij Stroński], Iwan, was a forester in Sieniawka not far from Krowica. On January 5, 1945, he was arrested by the Polish police and shot without trial and investigation”.
source: Podilczak M., Połochajło M., „Nasze ridne seło Korowycia”; in: „Lubachivshchyna Our Land”, in: No. 1, Lviv 2000, p. 28
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:
12361
date:
1945.03.09
alternatively:
04.03.1945
site
description
general info
Sieniawka
December 1945 [?], [typescript] — Fragment of a report by an unknown clerk from District II of the Zakerzonya Region about the murders of Ukrainians in Sieniawka […] :
„On March 4, 1945 the Polish Army (Szturmówka) and the UBP carried out a raid on the forest near Sieniawka. Two local self–defense units were quartered there. After a fierce fight, losing 2 killed and 1 wounded, they went to the village of Sieniawka, where they murdered 22 people, plundered the entire village […] and burned 23 farms. Murdered:
Barycz Andrij — age 48;
Bordij Hryhorij — 16;
Bordij Stepan — 34;
Bordij Teodor — 50;
Bordij Jurij — 30;
Berezivski Andrij — 55;
Hrynewski — 19_ 40;
Żdan Andrij — 49;
Żdan Iwna — 49;
Żdan Mykoła — 34;
Kałoszyn Mykhailo — 35;
Kowalski Ivan — 50;
Kowalski Teodor — 44;
Komar Osyp_ — 26;
Kulmatycki Yurij — 25;
Peniaha Mykoła — 40;
Sirkewycz Hryhorij — 55;
Chanas Iwan — 26;
Chanas Stepan — 51;
Cołta Ołęksa — 41 […]
Total: 27 killed, women 5, men 22 (by WP, MO and UBP 21 men and 1 woman, by WP 1 man, 4 women)”.
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]
Excerpt from Ivan Stefanowycz Żdan's memoirs about the murder of 2 Ukrainians in Sieniawka by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„March 9, 1945 became a day of a deeply carved wound in the heart of every inhabitant of Sieniawka […] As Warwara Wtorak, then a witness of these events, recalls, that day Danył Łysa from the Kapłysze hamlet was buried. After the funeral, they went to the presbytery of Fedir Kulmatycki, Petro Melnyk and my uncle Hryhorij Biłecki, who was a church assistant and gravedigger. Someone reported that something was attracting the Tymoszes to the church, but no one paid any attention to it. After a few moments, the Poles broke into the house, took Kulmatycki and Melnyk with them, and led them behind the church. Shots rang out. In a moment, the Poles returned with the shoes of the dead in their hands. The third Pole ran home and took Biłecki with him. He led him to the place where two dead bodies were already lying, he came from the back and fired at Biłecki, took off his shoes and followed his own. However, the shot was inaccurate and Biłecki regained consciousness”.
source: Żdan I. S., „Steżkamy pradidiwśkoji zemli”; in: „Lubachivshchyna Our Land”, in: No. 1, Lviv 2000, p. 45—46
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 Ivan Kuryła's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Sieniawka by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„I remember March 9 as if it were yesterday. I was 16 then. The day started, as always, with breakfast, and then my brother–in–law and I started weaving the ropes. A neighbor came, saying that the Polish army was making a manhunt for the forest. We didn't pay much attention to it and continued our work. We lived in the center of the village, the hamlet of Tymusza was in front of us. We looked this way: Tymusza was already on fire. Poles are going to Żdany through the fields, Żdany are already on fire. There are fires all around, the crying of children, the roar of cattle, at the mention of this, and now I am overwhelmed by fear. Several Poles also approached us in the yard. After shooting the dog, they said:
— «You have a horse, put it in the cart! Get the cows out! You will come with us».
The brother‑in‑law led the horse, I led the cows. They ordered us to go to the end of the village. The Poles walking in front were taking the farmers' horses, cows and everything they liked: linen, sheepskin coats, shoes. Those who walked behind were setting everything alightr and murdering. 27 people were killed then by the Polish murderers […] In our neighborhood, 3 people were killed. Andrij Żdan was shot near the house, he go charred; Mykoła Żdan was shot in the pasture, and Josifa Kuryło was stabbed by a Pole with a bayonet on the doorstep of the house, where she also burned down”.
source: Kuryło I., „Trahicznyj deń Syniawky”; in: „Lubachivshchyna Our Land”, in: No. 1, Lviv 2000, p. 50—51
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 Maria Wasyluszko's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Sieniawka by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„On March 9, 1945, Polish soldiers attacked the village and it was a terrible day for the inhabitants of [Sieniawka]. Over 24 people of all ages and even children were killed then at the hands of bandits. That day in village there was a funeral. Polish nonhumans encountered a procession near the church. Cruelly, until he lost the possibility of movement, they beat up Fr Kondracki, and Fedor Kulmatycki, Petr Gudzia, and Ivan Kowalski they killed near the entrance to the church. Hryhorij Biłecki was seriously injured.
The misfortune then came to the family of Marija and Jurij Kulmatycki. Marija' father, Iwan Kowalski, was killed near the church, and her husband, Yuri, was led out of the house and shot us in the yard. Orphans were left: 2‑year‑old Olha and 3‑week‑old Stefanija.
Having lost their mind and mercy, Polish soldiers destroyed the family of Hanna and Fedor Barefoot: passing by their house, a soldier threw a grenade inside. In the house with the hosts there were 4 more people who came to alleviate each other's misfortune. The blast killed everyone except her daughter, Marija, who was thrown back into the corner by the blast. She fell over her mother's breasts, began to cry bitterly, scream loudly. Hearing these screams, the soldier entered the house and pierced the child's breast with a bayonet […] The seven victims who died at home were buried in a common grave near the church belfry”.
source: Wasyluszko M. (Kulmatyćka), „U naszemu seli…”; in: „Lubachivshchyna Our Land”, in: No. 1, Lviv 2000, p. 52
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]
List of Ukrainians murdered in Sieniawka by a branch of the Polish Army on March 9, 1945:
„1. Berezivski Andrij, 2. Borodij Andrij, 3. Borodij Hryhorij, 4. Bosa Anna, 5. Bosa Marija, 6. Bosy Fedir, 7. Wasyluszko Stefan, 8. Hwozd 'Andrij, 9. Hryniawski Stefan, 10. Hudzio Petro, 11 Żdan Adnrij, 12. Żdan Iwan, 13. Żdan Mykoła, 14. Kowalszyn Mykhailo, 15. Kowalski Iwan, 16. Kuzyk Anastazija, 17. Kulmatycki Yurij, 18. Kulmatycki Fedir, 19. Kuryło Josyfa, 20. Maksymeć Josyf, 21. Pyniaha Mykola, 22. Chanas Ivan, 23. Chanas Stefan, 24. Solta Ivan, 25. Solta Oleks”.
source: „Zahynuły podczas akciji wijśka polśkoho 9 bereznia 1945 roku”; in: „Lubachivshchyna Our Land”, in: No. 1, Lviv 2000, p. 127—128
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:
24—27
min. 24
max. 27
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