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
Ujkowice
Przemyśl pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Ujkowice
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
18
max.:
22
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
36
max.:
36
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09486
date:
1945.03.03
(circa)
site
description
general info
Ujkowice
„At the beginning of March, numerous invasions of Greek Catholic priests took place. On March 4, an unidentified group robbed the parsonage in Ujkowice (Orzechowce commune), killing nine people, including the priest and his family members, and one” Pole also died. Fr Jan Sorokiewicz.
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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
09491
date:
1945.03.03
site
description
general info
Ujkowice
The Ukrainians murdered Józef Ryzner, 40.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 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:
12459
date:
1945.03.04
site
description
general info
Ujkowice
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 Ujkowice
„ […] On April 3, this year, around 20:00 the hitherto untraceable perpetrators robbed the Greek Catholic parish in Ujkowice, Orzechowce commune, and, after the robbery, murdered:
1 / Fr Sorokiewicz Jan,
2 / Sorokiewicz Kostek,
3 / Zazula Maria,
4 / Lewicka Paulina,
5 / Witoszyńska Katarzyna,
6 / Witoszyński Michał,
7/ Chanas Andrzej,
8/ Chanas Anna
— all of Ukrainian nationality, and
9/ Ryznar Józef
— of Polish 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]
„During World War II, which began in 09.1939 by the German and Russian invasions of Poland, after the expulsion of the Germans in 1944 by the victorious Russian army and the start of another Russian occupation, murdered (according to Ukrainian sources) by a «Polish gang» — prob. unit of the People's Security Guard LSB, part of the BCh Peasant Battalions, but not merged with the Home Army, commanded by Roman Kisiel nom‑de‑guerre. Vulture — in the presbytery, with his wife, and 8‑13 other villagers.
According to Polish sources, a 15‑person unit of the LSB attacked the village of Ujkowice in retaliation for the death of «Poles, whom the Ukrainians denounced to the Germans / Nazis, as a result of which they ended up in Auschwitz, and for the fact that a Greek Catholic priest blessed the knives to be used on Poles».
According to some sources, the priest was to «bless and make sacrifices at burial mounds in which Poland was symbolically buried», Ujkowice was to be the site of «armed structures of the Ukrainian underground» (i.e. the Ukrainian genocidal organization OUN / UPA).
The attackers «in the first place surrounded the priest's house and shot the priest and his wife»”.
source: GTKRK, „Fr Jan Sorokiewicz”; 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]
1950 October 20, Przemyśl — Fragment of the report of the interrogation of Antoni Koba by Corporal Józef Czuba from PUBP Przemyśl:
„Question:
— «Who was in the BCh organization after the liberation and who was the BCh commander in the Orzechowce commune?»
Answer:
— «1. Dzwierzyński Jan — commune commander of BCh […]
11. Lichtarski Franciszek — a member, I heard from Sanocki that the named one killed a Ukrainian Pop in Ujkowice»”.
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 050/124, vol. 1, sh. 32
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:
9—13
min. 9
max. 13
ref. no:
09914
date:
1945.05.01
site
description
general info
Ujkowice
The UPA murdered Maria Lewicka.
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:
10239
date:
1945.08.18
site
description
general info
Ujkowice
The UPA robbed Polish farms and murdered 13 Poles and 2 Ukrainians.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
15
min. 15
max. 15
ref. no:
10424
date:
1945.11.11
site
description
general info
Ujkowice
[The Ukrainians] burned down 92 buildings and murdered 10 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
11081
date:
1946.06.19
site
description
general info
Ujkowice
In the village of Ujkowce, poviat Przemyśl, [the Ukrainians] robbed Polish farms and murdered 9 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
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