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
Wisłok Wielki
Sanok pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Sanok cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
11
max.:
11
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
17
max.:
18
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07633
date:
1944.07.22–1944.07.24
site
description
general info
Wisłok Wielki
(forester's lodge)
in Wisłok Wielki forestry lodge, belonging to Komańcza forestry in Sanok county forester Adam Chrzanowski, b. 1910, was murdered by a UPA band. .
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; 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]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
12503
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Wisłok Wielki
Excerpt from Mychajło Fałat's memoirs about the murder by Polish Army soldiers of Hałenda in Wisłok Wielki:
„After a few days [1945?], the Poles organized themselves and with great force entered the forest. People had their huts there, from which many fled abroad into Chekoslovakia, but not all of them were careful, some did not escape, so the Poles then killed one woman and her son, our neighbor, who was called Hałenda, I do not remember the name. They threw grenades into their huts, fired various weapons, took cattle, horses and everything that could lay their hands on”.
source: „Letter of Mykhailo Fałat to B. Huk of August 1996”; in: Bogdan Huk's archive
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11151
date:
1946.01.24
site
description
general info
Wisłok Wielki
In the village of Wisłok Wielki, poviat Sanok, the UPA robbed and burned the village and murdered 6 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1946”; in: „Borderlands Information Service” — web page: ksi.btx.pl [accessible: 2021.06.18]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 964
„Forester named Smoliński and his wife were murdered by the UPA; after ripping the belly of a highly pregnant wife, the fetus was put into the open abdominal cavity of a forester, and they died in cruel torments”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1946”; in: „Borderlands Information Service” — web page: ksi.btx.pl [accessible: 2021.06.18]
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]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
12501
date:
1946.01.24
site
description
general info
Wisłok Wielki
January 20, 1946, typescript — Fragment of the notification of the OUN clerk from District I of the Zakerzonski Country about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Wisłok Wielki:
„January 24 [1946] at 10.00 am Polish Army from the border post from Jasełek and Jaśliska 100 people attacked the village of Wisłok Dolny in the Sanok district. They immediately began to rob the village. They took everything that could be handy: cattle, grain, shoes, underwear and all food items at hand. They killed 7 people (3 women, 2 children under 10, 2 men). They injured 3 people. In addition, many people were beaten and injured. They burned down 33 houses on their departure”.
source: „Powidomłennia pro antyukrajinśki akciji widdiliw Wijśka polśkoho”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 985, 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]
February 20, 1946, [typescript] — Fragment of the report „Wisti z terenu” of t Stepan Golasz 'Mar', the political clerk of the 'Beskid' district in the District I of the Zakerzonya Region, for January 1946, about the murders of the Polish Army soldiers in Wisłok Wielki:
„24 January [1946] the Polish Army from the WOP [Border Security] riverside hostel (Jasełko and Jaśliska) attacked the village of Wisłok Wielki. After they surrounded the lower end of the village, they burned down 33 farms, murdered 6 people, severely injured 2 men, and severely beaten many people. They shot those who saved property from burning houses or took things and threw them back into the fire. Having looted a lot, they drove back to their stables. 'Didyk's unit caught up with 10 soldiers who left last. Several bandits from the Polish Armed Forces were injured, 1 caught, the rest fled.
Murdered by human hunters from WOP:
Kincio Iwan — 49 years old, shot;
Guzelak Onufer — 23, — // –;
Dunda Petro — 52, — // — ;
Warniak Fenna — 32, — // –;
Betła Anna — 5, pierced with a bayonet;
Opryszko Marija — 9.
Seriously injured: Kapeluch Andrij and Pisio Wasyl”.
source: „Wytiah iż Wistej z terenu za misiać siczeń 1946 pro suspilno-politycznu sytuaciju na terenach Łemkiwszczyny”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 998, 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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
6—7
min. 6
max. 7
ref. no:
12500
date:
1946.01–1946.02
site
description
general info
Wisłok Wielki
Fragment of the report of Stepan Kikiec, the interrogation of the former UPA company shooter 'Szturmowiec'–5 by the PUBP investigator in Sanok on the murder of his father by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„And I do not have father, because I do not remember the date in January or February, he was killed by soldiers of the Polish Army for the fact that the Polish Army set the house on fire and the father put it out”.
source: „Report from the interrogation of the suspect [Stepan Kikci]”, 1 VI 1946; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 107/507, sh. 12
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:
10925
date:
1946.03.26
site
description
general info
Wisłok Wielki
In the village of Wisłok Wielki, poviat Sanok the UPA murdered Bronisław Michenko.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
12506
date:
1946.04.21
(Easter)
site
description
general info
Wisłok Wielki
Excerpt from Eufemija Kuzemka's memoirs about the murder of Sywaczok in Wisłok Wielki by Polish Army soldiers:
„— «The Polish Army attacked you after the front passed?»
— «And how!? We ate the Passover in the forest. They went from the forest to the church like ants… [When the army arrived] the priest did not leave the mass, the boys fled. Young Sywaczok was in the field and they killed him just at Easter [1946]»”.
source: „Zapis wideo rozmowy z Jewfemiją Kuzemką, ur. 17 lutego 1928 roku w Wisłoku Górnym, zrealizowany w Słobidce w obwodzie tarnopolskim w 2013 roku”; in: Bogdan Huk's archive
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:
12502
date:
1946.06.10
site
description
general info
Wisłok Wielki
Fragment of a field report by Stepan Golasz 'Mar', the SB OUN clerk of the 'Beskid' district, about the murder of a Ukrainian from Wisłok Wielki by Polish Army soldiers:
„10.6.1946. The Polish Army from Wisłok carried out a manhunt in the Beskid forest at 12 o'clock. They killed one boy, injured two girls who were with horses in the forest at that time”.
source: „Wisti z terenu za czas wid 1.6 – 1.7.1946”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 26, sh. 113
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:
11342
date:
1946.11
site
description
general info
Wisłok Wielki
„In November 1946, in the village of Wisłok, poviat Sanok, two Polish Army soldiers were hanged by members of the UPA gang”.
source: Prus Edward, „Operation "Vistula"”, in: ed. IV, Wroclaw 2006, p. 289
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1946 and Autumnof 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.27]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
12505
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
Wisłok Wielki
Excerpt from the memoirs of Ivan Nadziak about the murder of the Kadylak Dmytro in Wisłok Wielki by Polish Army soldiers:
„— «Who of our people and how were killed in Wisłok?»
— «Kadylak Dmytro was killed first. It was so, that my brother and I were at Pancio, called Cupanykiw. Czurma and Barna lived near them. The army entered, came in cars. One was an off‑road car, the other for several people… When they entered, 3 men were standing on the path. My brother and I were hidden to the side, we were looking, and he set a machine gun and ta–ta–ta: on the spot he killed Kadylak Dmytr, whose son lives in Gozda»”.
source: „Zapis wideo rozmowy z 2013 roku w Morągu z Iwanem Nadziakiem, ur. 12 czerwca 1933 roku w Wisłoku Górnym”; in: Bogdan Huk's archive
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:
12504
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Wisłok Wielki
Excerpt of Anna Łuczkanycz's (Kikcio) memoirs about the murder of 5 Ukrainians in Wisłok Wielki by WOP soldiers:
„In 1946, the Polish Army from Jasełka attacked Wisłok Wielki, they came to our house, closed the door from the outside and set it on fire. The house was on fire, and Dad was pouring water over a cell in the yard with grain and other necessary things. My mother and I managed to escape through the window and hide. Our entire farm burned down, including the cattle in the stable. The attackers went on to continue burning and killing innocent people. It was at this point that the insurgents appeared and drove the Polish gang away. The next day it was quiet, we were burying my father and others, five victims altogether, in a common grave: three men, one woman and a 9‑year‑old girl who asked her mother to hide, because the Poles would kill her and then they shot her”.
source: „Letter of Anna Łuczkanycz from 1997”; in: Bogdan Huk's archive
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:
5
min. 5
max. 5
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