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
Tomaszów Lubelski
Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv.
contemporary
Tomaszów Lubelski cou., Lublin voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
20
max.:
32
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
3
max.:
4
events (incidents)
ref. no:
06355
date:
1944.04.09
site
description
general info
Tomaszów Lubelski
Easter Sunday – „Seriously wounded in the fight against the UPA, arrested by the Germans and murdered by them: Gnyp Aleksander, 21 soldiers. Home Army wounded on April 9, 1944 near Posadow, Młynarski Henryk, 19 soldiers. Home Army wounded at Steniatyn, Olędzki Zbigniew wounded on April 9, 44 at Steniatyn. Home Army soldiers were killed in the fight against the UPA: Gnyp Zbigniew, 20, died on April 9, 1944 at the” Steniatyn.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8
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:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
12439
date:
1945.03
site
description
general info
Tomaszów Lubelski
Fragment of report prepared by 'Czumak', an employee of the SB‑OUN from the V District II of the Zakerzonya Region, on Polish Army terror in the village of Przewodów as a result of which 15 Ukrainians were strangled, 2 died as a result of torture, 1 vanished without a trace:
„On April 29, 1946 at 6 o'clock, 400 soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces and MO's raided the village of Przewodów […]
They took many people with them to Belz, be it a woman or an old man […] They arrested one wounded, who was accused of being a «banderite» by the denouncers. He died in Tomaszów in the hospital. There is no news about the second one. The first was named Ivanojko Wasyl, and the second was Tarasiuk Stepan […]
Testified: resident of the village
Interrogated: 'Czumak'”
source: „Akt cz. 2 z polśkoho teroru w seli Perewodowi”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 2, sh. 281
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—2
min. 1
max. 2
ref. no:
12438
date:
1945.05.05
(Holy Saturday)
site
description
general info
Tomaszów Lubelski
Excerpt from the list of Ukrainian victims from the village of Korczmin prepared by Mykhail Leśkiw:
„Civil victims of Korczmin:
Mazuryk Mychajło — born in 1901 in Budynin, he lived with his family in Korczmin; on Easter Saturday 1945, Poles from Stajów took him to take them to Tomaszów; He was killed outside the city, his horses and cart were taken away”.
source: Leśkiw M., „Wojaky UPA i człeny OUN rodom z Korczmyna”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 334—335
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:
12440
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Tomaszów Lubelski
Fragment of Iryna Baran's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Wasylów Wielki by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„Data of Iryna Baran about the victims from the village of Wasylów Wielki during the manhunts in 1946:
Stansław Mucha (conductor of the church choir, murdered in Tomaszów)”.
source: „Spohad Iryny Baran (diwocze prizwyszcze Dmyterko) narodżenoji 1927 roku w Wasyłewi Rawa-Ruśkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 35
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:
10892
date:
1946.03.08–1946.03.09
site
description
general info
Tomaszów Lubelski
In the city of Tomaszów Lubelski: „In the fall of 1945, I started studying at the gymnasium in Tomaszów Lubelski. Here I witnessed the UPA attack carried out on the night of March 8‑9, 1946. At night, we first heard and then saw many armed men running by the building of our dormitory. Soon, at a closer and further distance, there was a shooting. As it turned out, it was an attack on the local military unit and the civic militia headquarters, located several hundred meters from the dormitory. We saw the burning barracks and the silhouettes of the attackers quite well. Many attackers fired at those attacked from under our building. 16 soldiers were killed in this attack and several dozen inhabitants of Tomaszów were injured. 12 soldiers were kidnapped and they were not heard of. Most likely they were murdered”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: Kargol Marian, „Eyewitness”; in: portal: Weekly Review — web page: www.tygodnikprzeglad.pl [accessible: 2017.07.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
16—28
min. 16
max. 28
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