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
Szówsko
Jarosław pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Jarosław cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
8
max.:
8
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
1
max.:
4
events (incidents)
ref. no:
08649
date:
1944.12.18
site
description
general info
Szówsko
(forestry inspectorate)
The UPA gamekeepers Józef Salwach and Józef Satrocha were murdered by the UPA.
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
09796
date:
1945.04.17
site
description
general info
Szówsko
(forestry inspectorate)
Władysław Wysocki, a gamekeeper, was murdered by the UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; 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:
09821
date:
1945.04.22
site
description
general info
Szówsko
Polish Anna Salo, who died after a few days, was badly wounded by the UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; 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:
12411
date:
1945.04.22
alternatively:
15.09.1945
site
description
general info
Excerpt from the report of the interrogation of Volodymyr Gałan from Wiązownica on May 6, 1946 by an OUN SB employee about the murder of the Ukrainians of Surochów by gang from the Polish village of Wiązownica:
„Płonka Henryk, a Pole belonging to the Polish terrorist group 'Radwan', who murdered the Ukrainian population in the Jarosław poviat, and who was sitting with me in a prison in Jarosław in April 1946, told me that while still in this unit he took a Ukrainian priest from the village of Surochów with his wife and son. He said that they were shot in the village of Piwoda in the district and all three were buried behind the barn of the Polish farmer Żołyniak”.
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, Cop. VII b (169), sh. 96
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]
Polish translation of information by Michał Szkilnyk about the murder of Ukrainians in the village of Surochów, included in the collection „Jarosław and Beyond the Sun river regions” from 1986:
„On September 15, 1945, Polish bands of great strenght attacked Surochów. On this tragic Sunday, Fr Mykhailo Płachta held a service in the local church. The bandits burst into the church, made a scream, interrupted the service, took the priest from the altar. They also arrested the priest's wife and son Jurek. After being bound with barbed wire, they first severely beat the arrested people, then led them for interrogation to the village of Piwoda, where they again abused them terribly. Then they rushed everyone to Szówsko and there, having stripped everyone naked, publicly raped Fr Płachta's wife, finally they shot them all”.
source: „Surochów”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 229—230
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
09973
date:
1945.05.20
site
description
general info
Szówsko
The Ukrainians murdered 20‑year‑old Józef Zagrobelny.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; 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:
10042
date:
1945.05
site
description
general info
Szówsko
(forestry inspectorate)
The UPA Pamer Józef, a sawmill driver, was murdered by the UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10928
date:
1946.03.27–1946.03.28
site
description
general info
Szówsko
In the village of Szówsko, poviat Jarosław [on the night of March 27–28, 1946] the UPA shot Jan Tyran, a refugee from the village of Radawa.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: State Archive in Przemyśl, in: SPJ [Poviat Council in Jarosław] ref. No. 45, sh. 52
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10982
date:
1946.04.27–1946.04.28
site
description
general info
Szówsko
In the village of Szówsko, poviat Jarosław, [on the night of April 27–28, 1946] Jan Tyran was murdered [by the Ukrainians].
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
12410
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
Szówsko
Fragment of an interview with Yevhen Dyky, born on in 1925 in Leżachów […] :
„— «Anyone served in the UPA?»
— «Probably not, Paluch was in the Russian army. He was returning from the army and was killed on the bridge in Szówsko. He and three Ruthenians»”.
source: „Leżachów Czerce”, Rozmowa z Jewhenem Dykim ur. w 1925 w Leżachowie; in: Huk Bogdan, „Michał Borys «Żan»'s Young Ukrainians. Local Self-Defense Units in the Jarosław poviat in the years 1945—1947”, in: Przemyśl 2016, p. 427—429
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
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