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GENOCIDIUM ATROX

GENOCIDE perpetrated by UKRAINIANS on POLES

Data for 1943–1947

Site

II Republic of Poland

Skopów

Przemyśl pov., Lwów voiv.

contemporary

Skopów

Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland

Murders

Perpetrators:

Poles

Victims:

Ukrainians

Number of victims:

min.:

74

max.:

132

Location

link to GOOGLE MAPS

events (incidents)

ref. no:

12363

date:

1945.01.04

site

description

general info

Skopów

1945 January 8, Przemyśl — Fragment of the situational report of the deputy commander of the district MO in Przemyśl MO for the period November 21, 1944 — January 7, 1945:
On the night of January 4, 1945, the night guard of the Skopów cluster Kruszyński was shot by Soviet soldiers Piotr, 30 years old, of Ukrainian nationality, lives in Skopowo. The village dekurion, Gac Józef, 43, of Ukrainian nationality, was wounded and kidnapped. The guards Kruszyński Julian, 38 and King Stefan, 30, Ukrainians, were also abducted by an unknown unit in Soviet uniforms”.

source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 70/106, sh. 7

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—4

min. 1

max. 4

ref. no:

12364

date:

1945.01.25

site

description

general info

Skopów

Fragment of the report of the commander of the MO post in Krzywcza about the murder of a Ukrainian, Mykhailo Nowak in Skopowo:
I report that on March 25, 1945, around 6 p.m., an unknown armed gang of about 30 people fell into the Skop group of Krzywcza and was divided into several groups  […] The second group of bandits arrived at the door of Nowak Michał, born in 1913, son of Dmytro and Maria née Król, Greek Catholic religion, Ukrainian nationality, farmer, and when he did not want to let them into the apartment, they broke the window through which they entered to the interior of the apartment. They held Michał Nowak, led him outside the entrance to the apartment, demanded a gun from him, and when the latter declared that he had no guns, one of the perpetrators shot him twice in the head with a firearm, putting him dead on the spot. Without robbing anything, they left”.

source: „Report from commander J. Gałuszko”, 26 III 1945; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: Acta IPN BU 828/795, sh. 5

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:

09503

date:

1945.03.06–1945.03.07

site

description

general info

Skopów

On the night of March 6–7, the parsonage in Skopowo was attacked, all household members died, including children (twelve people). The report of the local militia station reports that on March 6, seven people were murdered in the Greek Catholic presbytery in Skopowo, and three during the retreat of the attackers. According to a report by the PUBP in Przemyśl, an unknown gang that murdered” The Ukrainians was supposed to be in the Kuńkowce commune in late February and early March. Fr Demiańczuk and Fr Kąkolewski. According to Ukrainian sources, 67 people were killed.

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]

source: „The crime in Skopowo”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

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 6 this year. in the Skopów cluster, the Greek Catholic priest Demiańczyk Jan, 80, Greek Catholic priest Konkolowski, 40, Konkolowska Maria nee Demiańczyk, 44, Demiańczyk Mirosława, 52, teacher of the Ukrainian school in Skopów, Demiańczyk Wira, 36, and a maid, all of Ukrainian nationality, were murdered by unknown perpetrators.
The same night in the aforementioned village also shot were Wolański Jan, 50, Pole, Malinowski Jurko, 15, Ukrainian nationality, King Jan, 52, Ukrainian nationality, Król Katarzyna, 38, Skrybski Władysław of Ukrainian nationality and wounded Bacza Wasylia, nationality Ukrainska  […]
Mayor 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]

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 Skopowo:
On 6.3. br. around 6 p.m. about 10 unknown perpetrators armed with various types of firearms, attacked the Greek Catholic presbytery in Skopowo, Krzywcza commune, where they shot all the household members, and this is:
1 / Ks. Demianczyk Jan, 80, the local parish priest,
2 / Ks. Konkoliwski Stefan, 40, local vicar,
3 / Konkolowska, 44, wife ad 2 /,
4 / Demiańczyk Mirosława, teacher, daughter ad 1 /,
5 / Demiańczyk Wirę, daughter ad 1 /,
6 / Music by Olga, servant of the parish priest ad 1 /,
7 / Wolański Jan, farmer from Skopów, Roman Catholic religion,
8 / Malinowski Jurek, aged 15, Greek Catholic religion,
9 / Król Jan, farmer of Greek Catholic religion,
10/ Król Katarzyna, wife of ad 9/,
11 / Skrypski Władysław, age 16, Greek Catholic religion.
All murdered except for ad 7 / Wolański were of Ukrainian nationality
”.

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]

Excerpt from the report „Wisti z terenu” of April 18, 1945:
March 1945, a Polish gang shot two priests and 4 other people in the presbytery in Skopowo, as well as 5 peasants returning from Przemyśl”.

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]

Demiańczuk Jan  […]
March 6, 1945 Skopów  […]
After the first order of the Commie–Nazi authorities of September 9, 1944 for „voluntary” deportation of the Ukrainian population across the Bug River, murdered during an attack by the Polish partisan unit of the People's Security Guard (under the command of Roman Kisiel nom‑de‑guerre 'Sęp'), part of the Bch Peasant Battalions, not part of the Home Army AK (part of the Polish Underground State, disbanded on January 19, 1945).
His three daughters, the son‑in‑law of Fr Kąkolewski — about 11 inhabitants of the village in total perished.

source: GTKRK, „Fr Jan Demiańczuk”; in: portal: «The White Book». Martyrology of the clergy - Poland. XX century (1914-1989), St Sigismund parish in Słomczyn — web page: www.swzygmunt.knc.pl [accessible: 2020.03.15]

perpetrators

Poles

victims

Ukrainians

number of

textually:

12 – 67

min. 12

max. 67

ref. no:

09584

date:

1945.03.27

alternatively:

28.03.1945

site

description

general info

Skopów

On March 27, a group of the same size as in the case of Koszowa and Słonne entered Skopów and shot about sixty people of Ukrainian and one Polish nationality. A similar size of the group would indicate that it was the same unit. In the recently published album by the Union of Ukrainians, commemorating the burial places of the Polish–Ukrainian victims, there is information, unfortunately without quoting the source, that the crime was committed on March 8 by a division of the „Vulture” Peasant Battalions. Father Władysław Piętowski, on the basis of the collected reports, claimed that both Skopów and Bachów were attacked by „partisans” from Babice with the support of similar „adventurers” from Nienadowa and Dubiecko. Supposedly, one of the leaders was to be a Missionary of La Salette, Fr Franciszek Żurawski.

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]

1945 April 6, Krzywcza — Fragment of the situation report of the Commune Board in Krzywcza for the district office in Przemyśl for the period after March 31, 1945 about the murder of Ukrainians in Skopowo:
On March 27 this year, an unknown group of about 200 people attacked the inhabitants of the Skopów group of Ukrainian nationality and shot about 60 people (all of Ukrainian nationality), as well as plundered several houses and burned several houses, taking their belongings, i.e. clothes, grain, cattle and horses.
In connection with the above attacks, all Ukrainian people left their homes in the last days of March and moved to Krzywcza, from where the mentioned ones are transported by carts to Przemyśl for resettlement  […]
Mayor of the commune
[signature illegible]

source: State Archive in Przemyśl, in: SPP sygn. 79, sh. 13

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 April 10, Krzywcza — Report of the MO station in Krzywcza for the County Headquarters of the MO in Przemyśl about the murder in the village of Skopów:
On the night of March 28, 1945, an unknown group of around 300 people armed with various types of firearms entered the Skopów group, commune Krzywcza, Przemyśl poviat, terrorized the population living there with firearms, and then murdered (shot) about 60 people of Ukrainian nationality with firearms, whose names could not be identified, because the rest of the saved Ukrainian population left the village in a panic, and no documents were not found on the corpses.
In addition, the perpetrators took a significant number of cattle from this village to the detriment of the Ukrainian nationals, which also could not be determined due to the departure of these farmers from the commune.
The incident is investigated by local MO post
Commander of the Post
Gałuszka Leon, Lt.

source: State Archive in Przemyśl, in: SPP sygn. 79, sh. 13

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 April 18, 1945:
March 1945, a Polish gang attacked Skopów, burned a third of the village, shot dozens of peasants (the rest fled to Ukrainian villages). Polish villagers from Kramarzówka and Helusz along with the local police commander took part in the action”.

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]

1951 January 21, Przemyśl — Fragment of the report from the interrogation of Józef Szpiech from Skopowo:
As I recall, in 1945, before Easter, during the Holy week, from Monday to Tuesday, an 'action' on the Skopów commune was organized by some Polish gang [… ] I know that 50 or more Ukrainians were killed during this action. As I recall, a week or two before the action in the Skopów village, a Ukrainian priest named Demiańczyk N. was murdered, and his three daughters, his son‑in—law and a servant, were also shot. All their movable property was then plundered. I personally do not have any information as to who could have committed this murder, in any case the Ukrainian population of the Skopów commune said that it was done by Poles. This murder, as I recall, took place in March 1945. I knew the Ukrainian priest Demianczyk personally and I know that he was impartial, despite the fact that he was a Ukrainian and he lived in a friendly relationship with the Polish people”.

source: „Investigative files against Skrabut Bronisław ”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 050/1914, sh. 10

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:

60

min. 60

max. 60

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