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
Wielkie Oczy
Jaworów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
57
max.:
62
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
05520
date:
1944.03.06
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
In front of the Ukrainian police station, a fasted police dog tore 18‑year‑old Tadeusz Skoczyński from the village of Łukawiec.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; 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:
06468
date:
1944.04.15
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
(in the vicinity)
On On April 15, the Ukrainians murdered a messenger who transferred money to refugees in Wielkie Oczy.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „News from the Eastern Lands”, no 8 (excerpts); in: „Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s”, in: Warsaw-Kiev 2005, vol. 4, part 2, p. 195 — web page: zbrodniawolynska.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
06600
date:
1944.04.28–1944.04.29
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
The Ukrainians murdered 19 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Węgierski Jerzy Julian; in: „WiN Historical Journals”, in: No. 9/1996
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
19
min. 19
max. 19
ref. no:
07095
date:
1944.05.20
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
The Ukrainians murdered 4 Poles (including two women), elderly people, 67, 69, 76 and 79 years old, who did not leave their farms.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
07443
date:
1944.06.24
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
Andrzej Płoszaj was murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; 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:
07614
date:
1944.07.19–1944.07.20
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
During the night attack, the UPA murdered 13 Poles aged from a 6–month–old girl to 78 (including: a mother with a 9‑year‑old daughter and 7‑year‑old son, a mother with 2 daughters: 6–month–old and 7‑year‑old, and 3 other women) while one Home Army AK partisan was killed in defense. Others: The sotnya „Jastruba” hit the spot. 13 or 18 Poles who did not manage to reach the church were killed. The remaining inhabitants repelled the attack with fire from two machine guns. The Ukrainians withdrew by burning 80 houses.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Motyka Grzegorz, „So it was in Bieszczady. Polish-Ukrainian battles in 1943-1948.”, in: Volumen Publishing House, Warsaw 1999, Warsaw 1999, p. 171
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
13 – 18
min. 13
max. 18
ref. no:
09903
date:
1945.04
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
Jan Pomorski, a policeman, 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:
09974
date:
1945.05.20
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
The UPA near Radymno murdered a 25‑year‑old policeman Józef Słysz.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09985
date:
1945.05.25
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles. And: on May 25, 1945, they murdered Stanisław Pelc, 24.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
09994
date:
1945.05.28
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
On May 28, 1945, they murdered Jan Sawicki, a policeman, 31.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10233
date:
1945.08.09
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
On August 9, 1945, as a result of heavy beatings by UPA militants, Tadeusz Klimczak, 24, died in the hospital in Jarosław.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11166
date:
1943.01–1946.01.31
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
In the village of Wielkie Oczy, poviat Jaworów, in the period between 1943 and January 31, 1946 [the Ukrainians] murdereded: Jan Światyński b. 1885, Michalina Marks b. 1910, Janina Marks b. 1943, Mila Kuźmińska b. 1938, Stefan Bronhard b. 1904, Filipa Bronhard b. 1912, Jan Sawiński b. 1914, Antoni Pomorski b. 1908, Wilhelmina Wilczyńska b. 1923.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1946”; in: „Borderlands Information Service” — web page: ksi.btx.pl [accessible: 2021.06.18]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
10849
date:
1946.02.11
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
In the village of Wielkie Oczy, poviat Jaworów murdered Bolesław Wilhelm, 20.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – February 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11627
date:
1947.08.09
site
description
general info
Wielkie Oczy
After being beaten by the Banderites, 24‑year‑old Tadeusz Klimczak died.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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