Ukrainian policemen and Gestapo men murdered a Polish family of five and the Jews they were hiding.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The UPA arrived three times and took up quarters there. „The UPA's arriving people put up advertisements on many houses and fences, mainly Polish ones, ordering all Poles to attend school meetings for 14 years. At the same time, they threatened that whoever did not obey their orders would be judged by a court martial and shot  […] After some time, the Bandera sotnik left the school and ordered everyone to enter the building. After that, the building was suddenly surrounded by armed Banderites  […] Many were convinced that this was their last moment in life. At that time, a local Ukrainian pope entered the room and began a quiet conversation with the sotnik. What they both said no one knows. After a long conversation, the pop left the room. The sotnik, however, got up and ordered everyone to go home, except for the three who he ordered to stay in the room. They were: Bogacki Franciszek, s. Michael; Bogacki Franciszek, s. Józefa; Gankiewicz Maria, wife of Franciszek, who was in the Polish partisans operating in the nearby area. Sotnik began the interrogation with questions: what orders and instructions were given by the partisan Franciszek Gankiewicz from the forest. The interrogations lasted a long time, and since the interrogators did not respond satisfactorily to the sotnik's questions, the three of them were locked in the basement. Then they were called for interrogations one by one. This time, the Bandera followers, armed with sticks, beat all three of them unconscious. The half–dead were left in the basement. They all survived, but lost their health forever. Perhaps the torturers thought that none of the three would survive after such beatings  […] Pop was warned by Mikołaj Kunicki, commander of the partisan unit stationed in the area, that in the event of murdering Poles in the village of Terka, his unit will retaliate and do the same in the village of Terka or any other village with the Ukrainian population. This explains the intervention of the Pope in the UPA sotnik, and this certainly saved the lives of many Poles”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Gankiewicz Franciszek, „The Bieszczady Land 1939-1947”, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 410, 429—431

The Ukrainians murdered a Polish family of three and burnt their house.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Żurek Stanisław, „UPA in Bieszczady”, in: ed. II, Nortom publishing house, Wroclaw 2010, p. 70

The UPA murdered 9 Poles: 2 were shot, 2 hanged, 5 they abducted without a trace.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Prus Edward, „Operation "Vistula"”, in: ed. IV, Wroclaw 2006, p. 70—71

On July 4, 1946, OUN militias abducted 5 inhabitants of Terka; one Pole and 4 Ukrainians (who changed their religion to Roman Catholic). Indirectly as a result of the above incident, on 6 July Captain Lucjan Zubert (deputy commander for line affairs of the 36th Command) gave an order to take hostages.

source: „The crimes in Terka”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.24]

The UPA murdered 4 Poles and a Ukrainian, Dmitri Martyniuk, for refusing to join the UPA.
Others: the UPA kidnapped from Terka one Pole and four Ukrainians into the forest. Upon hearing about this, Cpt. Zuber, the commander of the 8th Division of the 36th Division of the Border Defense Forces stationed in nearby Wołkowyja, took 30 Ukrainian hostages. He announced that if the Bandera followers freed the Poles within 24 hours, he would allow the hostages to return home.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.24]

„In the evening, Ukrainian groups brought two hostages (a Pole and one Ukrainian) to Terka and hanged them on a roadside tree, smashing their heads with butts”. They were Jan Gankiewicz and Michał Łoszyn.

source: „The crimes in Terka”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.24]

Border Security WOP soldiers placed 20 people taken hostages in a wooden house. „The murder was directly attended by 2 soldiers from the Eastern Polish Borderlands, who were probably supposed to volunteer for this task because their relatives had been murdered by the Ukrainian murderers. The rest of the soldiers guarded the building's surroundings. The murder was carried out using a submachine gun and throwing grenades inside the building, then the hut was doused with gasoline and set on fire. 20 innocent people died. In addition to the aforementioned victims, the soldiers after this incident murdered another 7 Ukrainian inhabitants of Terka, and 3 men who had been brought to the cemetery earlier. WOP soldiers killed a total of 30 people and burned down a dozen farms.
In 1999, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance IPN Delegation in Rzeszów conducted an investigation No S 7/00 / Zk in the course of which it was possible to identify one perpetrator – Hryhorij Łoszycia, a Ukrainian, cooperating with the soldiers of the WOP Section in Wyłkowyja. No charges were brought against him as he was already dead (he died in 1991). The charges were also brought against two former soldiers of the 36th Section Headquarters of WOP, but due to the lack of sufficient evidence of guilt, the prosecutor's office was forced to withdraw from the indictment”.

source: „The crimes in Terka”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]

source: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Rzeszów, in: ref. No. S 7/00/Zk — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.24]

Done on July 8, 1946 by soldiers of the Border Protection Forces from the 36th Section of Section 8 of the Border Protection Division on 30 Ukrainians, inhabitants of the village of Terka.
One of the main reasons for the intensification of mutual prejudices between the Ukrainian and Polish co–inhabitants of Terka was the activity of local Greek Catholic priests (priest Josef Kecun and Lew Salwycki), consisting in inciting and inciting hostility towards Poles [1]. In the second half of July 1944, announcements of Ukrainian nationalists appeared in the Bieszczady Mountains, calling on Poles to leave the villages in one day, without the possibility of taking their belongings. Failure to comply with this order was punishable by death in accordance with the announcement. In connection with the failure to comply with the above threats, Ukrainian nationalists made, inter alia, the murder of 42 Poles, inhabitants of Baligród. It was also planned to murder the Polish inhabitants of Terka. At the same time (in August 1944), the Soviet partisans arrived in the Western Bieszczady, commanded by the Pole Mikołaj Kunicki „Mucha”, with which the unit of Józef Pawłusiewicz joined, constituting the local defense for the Polish population. Thanks to Kunicki's activity, which included, among others, by sending out threats of possible retaliation actions in the event of repeated murders, purges carried out by Ukrainian troops in the Bieszczady Mountains have been significantly limited [3]. In the summer of 1945, the activities of the UPA worsened again, its militias often quartered in Terka, and the villagers were forced to provide them with food and clothing under the threat of repression. On May 1, 1946, the 36th Section Headquarters of the 8th WOP Division was located in Wołkowyja, whose soldiers often stayed in nearby Terka. constituting a local defense for the Polish population. Thanks to Kunicki's activities, which included, among others, by sending threats of possible retaliation actions in the event of repeated murders, the purges carried out by Ukrainian troops in the Bieszczady Mountains have been significantly limited [3]. In the summer of 1945, the activities of the UPA worsened again, its militias often quartered in Terka, and the villagers were forced to provide them with food and clothing under the threat of repression. On May 1, 1946, the 36th Section Headquarters of the 8th WOP Division was located in Wołkowyja, whose soldiers often stayed in nearby Terka. constituting a local defense for the Polish population. Thanks to Kunicki's activity, which included, among others, by sending out threats of possible retaliation actions in the event of repeated murders, purges carried out by Ukrainian troops in the Bieszczady Mountains have been significantly limited [3]. In the summer of 1945, the activities of the UPA worsened again, its militias often quartered in Terka, and the villagers were forced to provide them with food and clothing under the threat of repression. On May 1, 1946, the 36th Section Headquarters of the 8th WOP Division was located in Wołkowyja, whose soldiers often stayed in nearby Terka. purges carried out by Ukrainian troops in the Bieszczady Mountains have been largely limited [3]. In the summer of 1945, the activities of the UPA worsened again, its militias often quartered in Terka, and the villagers were forced to provide them with food and clothing under the threat of repression. On May 1, 1946, the 36th Section Headquarters of the 8th WOP Division was located in Wołkowyja, whose soldiers often stayed in nearby Terka. purges carried out by Ukrainian troops in the Bieszczady Mountains have been largely limited [3]. In the summer of 1945, the activities of the UPA worsened again, its militias often quartered in Terka, and the villagers were forced to provide them with food and clothing under the threat of repression. On May 1, 1946, the 36th Section Headquarters of the 8th WOP Division was located in Wołkowyja, whose soldiers often stayed in nearby Terka.
On July 4, 1946, OUN militias abducted 5 Terka residents; one Pole and 4 The Ukrainians (who changed their religion to Roman Catholic). Indirectly as a result of the above incident, Captain Lucjan Zubert (Deputy Commander for Line Affairs of the 36th Command) gave an order to take hostages on 6 July.
On the evening of the same day the order was carried out. According to the findings of the UPA, 43 hostages were collected, of which at least a quarter fled on the way to their destination, which was Wołkowyja. Thanks to the intercession of civilian Poles, a few more people were released. The next day, an ultimatum was issued demanding that people abducted by Ukrainian militias be released, in return for the release of the detained Ukrainian residents of Terka. On the same day in the evening (July 7), Ukrainian groups brought two hostages (a Pole and one Ukrainian) to Terka and hanged them on a roadside tree, smashing their heads with butts. The next day, after receiving news of the murder of two people, a decision was made to shoot the hostages. The action was led personally by Capt. Lucjan Zubert. On July 8, the hostages were brought back to Terka (one person managed to escape during the march) and herded to a wooden house. Here another 5 people were released, and 3 men were taken to the cemetery to dig a grave for the hanged by the SB‑OUN, besides, one boy, Wasyl Soniak [5], who survived the massacre, escaped from the hut, and then his testimony was written and compared with the testimonies of WOP soldiers from Wołkowyja.
There were 20 people left in the hut (not counting the boy who managed to escape), mostly women and children. The murder was directly attended by 2 soldiers from the Eastern Borderlands, who were probably supposed to volunteer to perform this task because their relatives had been murdered by the Ukrainian underground. The rest of the soldiers guarded the building's surroundings. The murder was carried out using a submachine gun and throwing grenades inside the building, then the hut was poured with gasoline and set on fire. 20 innocent people were killed. Apart from the above–mentioned victims, the soldiers after this incident murdered another 7 Ukrainian inhabitants of Terka, and 3 men who had been brought to the cemetery earlier [6].
WOP soldiers killed a total of 30 people and burned down a dozen farms.
In retaliation for the murder in Terka, the UPA attacked Wołkowyja from 14 to 15 July 1946 (or from 15 to 16).

source: „The crimes in Terka”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]

Excerpt from the situational report of Stepan Golasz 'Mar', the OUN reporter from the Beskid region about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Terka:
„On July 8, 1946, at 7 am, the Polish Army attacked the village of Terka in the Lesko district. They brought with them 28 arrested people, towards whom they behaved like animals, regardless of the fact that they were all women and children. The arrested women and children were locked up in one house in the upper part of the village, where one bandit shot them with an automatic machine and tore them with a grenade. People who were still alive were burnt and the house was set on fire. Only the 14‑year‑old boy Wasyl Soniak, who tells exactly about it, managed to escape from this murder of innocent people. Whom the Polish bandits caught in the village, they shot them on the spot. As a result of this action, 33 were murdered, including a 100‑year‑old woman, Anna Diak [in the original: Dyk — BH] burned alive”.

source: „Wisti z terenu za czas wid 1.7 – 1.8.1946”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 103, 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 the situation report of Stepan Golasz 'Mar', the OUN reporter from the 'Beskid' district about the murder of a Ukrainian in Studenne by Polish Army soldiers:
„On September 4, 1946, the Polish Army from Wołkowyja made an ambush between Studenny and Terka  […] They burned down 3 houses in Studenne and they killed one woman”.

source: „Wisti z terenu za czas wid 1.9 – 1.10.1946”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 108, 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 the situational report of Stepan Golasz 'Mar', the OUN reporter from the Beskid region about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Terka:
„On May 29, 1947, the Polish Army from Wołkowyja numbering about 200 soldiers  […] going through Terka killed Mychajł Drozd age 37, Dmytro Karnas, 25, and badly injured Ivan Nebora, who died after two days”.

source: „Wisti z terenu za czas wid 1.5 – 1.6.1946”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 93, 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]