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
Sucha Wola
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Sucha Wola
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
18
max.:
18
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
16
max.:
16
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12396
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
Incomplete list of Ukrainian victims of the armed formations of the Republic of Poland in the IV region of the First District of the Zakerzonya Region, made by 'Dowbusz', the clerk:
„Sucha Wola:
[1] Buczko Ivan — murdered,
[2] Kozak —
[3] Nawodyło Julijan —
[4 ] Badzaj Dmytro —
[5] Cazac Dmyt[ro] —
[6] Baśko And[rij] — sh[ot],
[7] Onyszko Mych[ajło],
[8] Kozak Wasyl — [illegible]”.
source: „Spys z[a]str[iłenych] ta pomor[dowanych]”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 22, sh. 84
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:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
09142
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
The Ukrainians murdered 5 Poles: the s/o a Polish woman who was murdered on April 20, 1944, and 4 bodies were found in a well in gamekeepers, the identity of which could not be identified, they were massacred.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
04586
date:
1944.01.02
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
The UPAs kidnapped and murdered 3 Home Army soldiers.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
06252
date:
1944.04.03
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
The bodies of 2 Poles were found in the well of the forester's lodge.
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:
06520
date:
1944.04.20
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
The Ukrainians murdered Anna Wojtak, 73.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
Myrosław Onyszkewycz „Orest Karat” gave the order: „I order you to purge your area immediately from the Polish element and Ukrainian–Bolshevik agents. The purge should be carried out in riverside hostels sparsely populated by Poles. To this end, create a militia near the area, composed of our members, whose task would be to eliminate the above–mentioned. Our larger hostels will be cleared of this element by our military units even in broad daylight […] The clearing of the area must be completed before our Easter so that we can celebrate it without Poles. Remember that when the Bolsheviks find us with Poles in our territory, they will slaughter us all […] Make a hard, ruthless fight with them. Not to spare anyone, even in mixed marriages. To take Lachs out of their houses, but The Ukrainians and children in these houses should not be liquidated […] Get the gun. Death to the Poles. Stop, April 6, 1944. Glory to the heroes! Orest, Karat” This order is in the files of the investigation against Myroslav Onyshhevych.
source: Miszko Przemysław, Matkowski Krzysztof, „Crimes of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Eastern Lesser Poland in 1939—1945 against persons of Polish nationality - in the light of investigations by OKŚZPNP in Wrocław”; in: „Crimes of the past, studies and materials of IPN prosecutors”, in: Warszawa 2008, vol. 2 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
07094
date:
1944.05.20
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
The UPA murdered 73‑year‑old Anna Wojtczak.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10786
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
The Ukrainians murdered Piotr Małek, born in 1908 and the farmer Jan (or Józef). Serafina b. 1885 in Nowa Grobla.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 1945”; 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:
12400
date:
1945.01
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
Fragments of K. Wasylkewycz's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Sucha Wola and other villages by soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces, members of MO and bands from neighboring Polish villages:
„In December 1944 the ground was trembling from the detonation of the far front during the great Muscovites' offensive against the Germans. It was terrible to live. The front was moving away, but the countryside was attacked by the Polish–Bolshevik army, militia and gangs. They disturbed the inhabitants during the day and the UPA at night. The first beat, robbed, caught people, the second stood up for the people and asked for food.
In the autumn, in September–October, Polish militia gathered from the entire district attacked the village of Sucha Wola and the surrounding villages. They robbed, beaten, and in Sucha Wola burned 12 houses on the west side, in the so‑called Horba […] In January 1945, a larger number of the army burst into the village. They searched almost every home. At Dmytro Kebała, they even took school textbooks in Ukrainian, because they were looking for 'Surma'. They ordered lunch at school for 15 of the elders. On the porch they torn off the floor looking for weapons, torn mattresses in the kitchen, knocked over everything in the house in search of rifles, brochures, and stole whatever they could. A few went to the village, and when they returned, they said that they had taken away one «Banderite». It was 17‑year‑old Wasyl Kozak, son of Teodor and Kateryna […] The boy was killed around 10 am. They took him outside the house barefooted into the snow and, in front of his mother, groaning on the doorstep, shot for two of his older brothers, Iwan Kozak and Dmytro Kozak, were in the UPA, and father Teodor was bringing them something to eat”.
source: Wasylkewycz K., „Spohady”, b.m., b.d.; in: Bogdan Huk's archive, in: , p. 23, 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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
12398
date:
1945.02
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
December 1945 [?], [typescript] — Fragment of a report by an unknown clerk from District II of the Zakerzonya Region about the murders of Ukrainians in Sucha Wola:
„In February 1945 the MO from Zalesie murdered a peasant, Onyszka Matwia”.
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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09427
date:
1945.02.18
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
[The Ukrainians] abducted and murdered 2 Poles in the forest.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1945”; 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:
12397
date:
1945.02.20
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
December 1945 [?], [typescript] — Fragment of a report by an unknown clerk from District II of the Zakerzonya Region about the murders of Ukrainians in Sucha Wola:
„On February 20, 1945, the MO from the entire poviat numbering 300 people carried out an action on the countryside. During the action, they robbed and beat the peasants, and also shot the villager Cossack Vasyl — 18 years old”.
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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
12399
date:
1945.10.05
site
description
general info
Sucha Wola
December 1945 [?], [typescript] — Fragment of a report by an unknown clerk from District II of the Zakerzonya Region about the murders of Ukrainians in Sucha Wola:
„On October 5, 1945, at 4 am, the Polish Army found 2 insurgents at Bose Teodor's house. The Poles wanted the insurgents to surrender, but they took up arms. At that time, the Poles shot them, as well as the whole family of Bosy Teodor and 2 girls who were there, namely:
Bosy Teodor — 35 years old;
Bosa Anna — 33;
Labish Marija — 13;
Bosa Anna — 27;
Firysz Rozalija — 26”.
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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
7
min. 7
max. 7
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