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
Wapowce
Przemyśl pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Wapowce
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
7
max.:
7
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
1
max.:
1
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
10793
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Wapowce
The UPA murdered two Poles: a woman and a Polish Army soldier who came to meet his wife who had been displaced from Kresy.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 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:
09842
date:
1945.04.27
site
description
general info
Wapowce
The UPA murdered Jan Kowalczyk.
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:
12478
date:
1945.05.05
site
description
general info
Wapowce
1945 May 6, Kunkowce — Report of the MO in Kunkowce for PMO in Przemyśl about the murder of Jan Kowalczyk in Wapowce:
„I report that on 5 May 1945, around 6 p.m., the village of Wapowce was attacked by an armed gang of over 200 people. This unit came from the forest from the side of Węgierka. During the attack, they wanted to take the horse from the local Ukrainian, Kowalczyk, Jan, and when he refused, he was shot with two shots, and they took the horse. After taking the horse, the unit retreated to the forest
The next day, on May 6, 1945, at 5 am, the same unit probably surrounded the whole village and then took 2 cows, 10 horses with a harness and carts. Then they stole everything that fell into their hands. At that time, Grecko Jan tried to run from the village, and when he did not obey the call to stop, they fired several shots at him, as a result of which he was seriously wounded. The wounded man was taken to hospital in Przemyśl on the same day. Let me mention that the robbery of cattle, horses, carts and other property was carried out on the Ukrainian population […]
Commander of the PP
[signature illegible]”
source: State Archive in Przemyśl, in: SPP sygn. 79, sh. 13
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:
10388
date:
1945.10.27–1945.10.27
site
description
general info
Wapowce
The UPA burned 90 farms and murdered 4 Poles, including a woman. „In the night of October 27–28 in the forester's lodge Celinów near the village of Wapowce, Krasiczyn forest district, he and his sons were murdered by the UPA during an attack on the forester's lodge, which was burnt, forester Franciszek Podlach”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 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]
Podlacha Franciszek, a forester, murdered with his son Zdzisław and another person by the UPA, during a night raid on a forester's lodge of the Celinów Forestry, which was burnt, the forester's body was thrown into the fire.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Moskaluk Wojciech, „The crime of Ukrainian nationalists on Polish foresters in 1939—1947 in the south-eastern borderlands of the Second Polish Republic”; in: Polish State Forest, in: Świętoszów, 15.V.2015 — web page: swietoszow.wroclaw.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.26]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
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