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
Zaleska Wola
Jarosław pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Jarosław cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
4
max.:
4
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
31
max.:
32
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07817
date:
1944.08.28
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
The Ukrainians murdered 3 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
08409
date:
1944.11.20
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
The UPA murdered Anna Jakubowicz.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 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:
12543
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Fragment of Ivan Pawłyk's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„Zaleska Wola was particularly vulnerable to Polish attacks, because the neighboring villages were almost completely robbed at the end of 1944, and we still have cows. and horses, some things in the boxes. However, this too was to be lost along with the people — this was what the Poles intended to do […]
Victims of Zaleska Wola
Civil population […]
Year 1945
Scimitar Dmytro — s/o Fedor, b. in 1927, murdered by Poles;
Bułat Petro — s/o Fedor, b. in 1924, brother of the above–mentioned, murdered by Poles; […]
Kic Mykoła — s/o Maksym, b. in 1908, murdered by Poles”.
source: „Spohad Iwana Pawłyka”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 247—257
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
12547
date:
1945.01.18
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Fragment of Ivan Pawłyk's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„Zaleska Wola was particularly vulnerable to Polish attacks, because the neighboring villages were almost completely robbed at the end of 1944, and we still have cows. and horses, some things in the boxes. However, this too was to be lost along with the people — this was what the Poles intended to do […]
Victims of Zaleska Wola
Civil population […]
Chromy Iwan — b. around 1885, murdered by Poles on January 18”.
source: „Spohad Iwana Pawłyka”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 247—257
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:
12544
date:
1945.01.19
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Fragment of Ivan Pawłyk's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„Zaleska Wola was particularly vulnerable to Polish attacks, because the neighboring villages were almost completely robbed at the end of 1944, and we still have cows. and horses, some things in the boxes. However, this too was to be lost along with the people — this was what the Poles intended to do […]
Victims of Zaleska Wola
Civil population […]
Kril Marija — she Fedora Krila, b. in 1909, murdered by the Poles on January 19”.
source: „Spohad Iwana Pawłyka”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 247—257
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:
12542
date:
1945.03
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Excerpt from the report „Wisti z terenu” from April 18, 1945:
„March 1945 During the raid in Zaleska Wola, the Polish police found a hiding place where a conscious Ukrainian shot himself, so as not to surrender himself alive to the enemy. The farmer, where the hiding place was, was also shot by the police”.
source: „Wytiah iz Wistej z terenu pro antyukrajinśki akciji polakiw na Hrubesziwszczyni w berezni1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 860, 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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
12546
date:
1945.04
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Fragment of Ivan Pawłyk's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„Zaleska Wola was particularly vulnerable to Polish attacks, because the neighboring villages were almost completely robbed at the end of 1944, and we still have cows. and horses, some things in the boxes. However, this too was to be lost along with the people — this was what the Poles intended to do […]
Victims of Zaleska Wola
Civil population […]
Charysz Petro — born in 1897, murdered by Poles in April”.
source: „Spohad Iwana Pawłyka”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 247—257
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:
12545
date:
1945.05.05
(Holy Saturday)
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Fragment of Ivan Pawłyk's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„Zaleska Wola was particularly vulnerable to Polish attacks, because the neighboring villages were almost completely robbed at the end of 1944, and we still have cows. and horses, some things in the boxes. However, this too was to be lost along with the people — this was what the Poles intended to do.
Easter 1945 was approaching. It could not be cheerful with us. People knew about the murders committed by the 'Wołyniak' gang in Piskorowice, Dobcza and Dobra. Recently, we heard about the terrible murders in Bobrówka, Laszki and Miękisz Stary, where on a farm, a gang cut off people's tongues and ears, gouged out their eyes, raped women, and then cut off their breasts to finally finish off the living dead. People from neighboring villages were also brought to this farm […]
In the very morning [on Easter Saturday in 1945] shots were fired between Mełechy and Kopań forests, then alarm bells were heard throughout the village. People started to flee east. [Self–defense commander 'Bajda' immediately gave the order to prepare to attack the Poles. It was evident that the Poles were already in the village, probably entering the forest from the west, rather than on the road, thanks to which they bypassed all our stands. There was fire on the houses […] After [the fight and] the area ('kushch') returned to the village, we learned that the Poles had murdered five small children and five women. It happened in the house of the Mełechs, where a woman with two children died, and in the other Mełechów — a young woman with two children died there. In Mykola Melech's house, his wife was shot on the stove, daughter‑in‑law on the courtyard, her daughter on the bed, all were busy with their work. The Poles badly injured Kateryna Szczurko, known as Onyszczaczka, who came from Młyny. She was breastfeeding a child when the bullet passed the child's armpit below the belly and the mother's breasts. Her older daughter was asleep in bed when a bullet pierced her arm, inflicting a rather severe wound. After shooting them, the Poles set their house on fire, but their neighbor, Kateryna Stasik, hidden behind the branches, saved them […]
Victims of Zaleska Wola
Civil population […]
Mełech Anna — daughter–in–law of Mykola Mełech [to Lisik], murdered on Easter Saturday morning during the Polish underground raid an armed man under the command of 'Wołyniak';
Mełech — name unknown, a child of several months, murdered in a cradle at the same time and under the same circumstances as above;
Mełech — name unknown, wife of Mykola Mełech–Lisik, born around 1885, murdered at the same time and in the same circumstances as above;
Mełech — name unknown, child of the daughter of Yeva Melech, about 2—4 years old, murdered in the same circumstances as above;
Mełech — name unknown, child of the daughter of Yeva Melech, about 2—4 years old, murdered in the same circumstances as above;
Mełech — daughter of Jewy, b. around 1915, mother of the above–mentioned children, murdered in the same circumstances as above;
Mełech — name unknown, daughter of Mykola Mełech–Lisik, b. around 1915, murdered in the same circumstances as above;
Melech — a child mentioned above, murdered in the same circumstances as above;
Mełech — a child of the above–mentioned, aged 1–3, murdered in the same circumstances as above;
Mełech Tetiana — daughter of Mykola Mełech–Lisik, b. around 1920, murdered in the same circumstances as above”.
source: „Spohad Iwana Pawłyka”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 247—257
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]
Excerpt from Kateryna Koreń's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by the armed formations of the Republic of Poland:
„After the German occupation, Poles, for their part, did not spare people, they beat, robbed, looked for Banderites in chambers and boxes, and during each raid there were casualties. On Easter, on Easter Saturday, a Polish manhunt raided from the Nywy forest, killing women in homes and yards. They threw away the passover prepared for the celebration. Kateryna Illasz was holding the child in her arms — the mother was killed, and the child, the boy, the older brother, hidden under the bed, pulled in and saved him. They both survived.
The next time, Ivan Hadewycz, Charysz, Chromy were murdered. Yet another Iwaś Bohun and a boy from the underground 'Maj'. I do not remember all of them, but this «Polish nation without blemish chosen by God» spared no one”.
source: „Spohad Kateryny Koreń (diwocze prizwyszcze Dmytryszyn) narodżenoji 1926 roku w Zaliśkij Woli Jarosławśkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 246
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:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
12527
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
The Polish translation of the information by Myron Łozowski about the murder of Ukrainians in the village of Łazy, included in the collection „Jarosław and Beyond the Sun river regions” from 1986:
„The register of young victims of criminal actions from the vicinity of Łazy is very long […] :
I will mention only these young people and my friends who died near my hometown of Łazy. They were: […]
Wołodymyr Manczak s/o Jakym — he died at Wola Zaleska in 1946”.
source: „Łazy”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 233—236
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:
12550
date:
1946.03–1946.06
(spring)
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Fragment of Ivan Pawłyk's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„Zaleska Wola was particularly vulnerable to Polish attacks, because the neighboring villages were almost completely robbed at the end of 1944, and we still have cows. and horses, some things in the boxes. However, this too was to be lost along with the people — this was what the Poles intended to do […]
Victims of Zaleska Wola
Civil population […]
1946 Mełech Anna — d/o Fedor and Marija, b. in 1921, murdered in the spring”.
source: „Spohad Iwana Pawłyka”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 247—257
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:
12548
date:
1946.03.27
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Fragment of Ivan Pawłyk's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„Zaleska Wola was particularly vulnerable to Polish attacks, because the neighboring villages were almost completely robbed at the end of 1944, and we still have cows. and horses, some things in the boxes. However, this too was to be lost along with the people — this was what the Poles intended to do […]
Victims of Zaleska Wola
Civil population […]
Year 1946
Dyhiń Andrij — s. Fedora and Anna, b. in 1925, murdered by Poles, probably on March 27;
Oleksander — name unknown, male from Poltava, b. around 1920, murdered by Poles together with the above–mentioned”.
source: „Spohad Iwana Pawłyka”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 247—257
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:
12549
date:
1946.04.09
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Fragment of Ivan Pawłyk's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„Zaleska Wola was particularly vulnerable to Polish attacks, because the neighboring villages were almost completely robbed at the end of 1944, and we still have cows. and horses, some things in the boxes. However, this too was to be lost along with the people — this was what the Poles intended to do […]
The Poles showed what they can do during the raid in Babiaki. For example, in a water mill, two teenage boys and one man hid in flour baskets. They were found and stabbed on the spot with bayonets. They were S. Fedak, I. Iwaszko, and the man was called Fed'ko Krupa […]
Victims of Zaleska Wola
Civil population […]
1946
Iwaszko Iwan (in the village called Pełech) — born in 1928, an inhabitant of the Babiaki hamlet, murdered by Poles on April 9;
Ilasz Yurij (called Kul in the village) — s/o Paniek, b. around 1909, an inhabitant of the hamlet of Chałupki, murdered by Poles on April 9;
Kolasa Iwan — resident of the village of Chotyniec, born on around 1900, murdered by Poles on April 9;
Fedak Stepan — s/o Iwan, b. in 1927, a resident of [Babiaki hamlet, murdered by Poles on April 9;
Chita Fedir — s/o Fedor, b. in 1919, an inhabitant of the Babiaki hamlet, murdered by Poles on April 9”.
source: „Spohad Iwana Pawłyka”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 247—257
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—6
min. 5
max. 6
ref. no:
12551
date:
1947.03–1947.06
(spring)
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Fragment of Ivan Pawłyk's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„Zaleska Wola was particularly vulnerable to Polish attacks, because the neighboring villages were almost completely robbed at the end of 1944, and we still have cows. and horses, some things in the boxes. However, this too was to be lost along with the people — this was what the Poles intended to do […]
Victims of Zaleska Wola
Civil population […]
1947 Melech Marija — wife of Fedor, b. around 1880, murdered by Poles in the spring”.
source: „Spohad Iwana Pawłyka”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 247—257
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:
12552
date:
1947.06–1947.09
(summer)
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Fragment of Ivan Pawłyk's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„Zaleska Wola was particularly vulnerable to Polish attacks, because the neighboring villages were almost completely robbed at the end of 1944, and we still have cows. and horses, some things in the boxes. However, this too was to be lost along with the people — this was what the Poles intended to do […]
Victims of Zaleska Wola
Civil population […]
1947 […]
Yassiv Anastazija — wife of Hryhorij, b. around 1870, found in her own home with her husband in a state of decomposition, probably murdered by Polish robbers;
Jasiw Hryhorij (in the village called Skipko) — born around 1885, found with his wife mentioned above after the Ukrainians were displaced in the summer of 1947”.
source: „Spohad Iwana Pawłyka”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 247—257
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:
12553
date:
1948
site
description
general info
Zaleska Wola
Fragment of Ivan Pawłyk's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zaleska Wola by gangs from neighboring Polish villages:
„Zaleska Wola was particularly vulnerable to Polish attacks, because the neighboring villages were almost completely robbed at the end of 1944, and we still have cows. and horses, some things in the boxes. However, this too was to be lost along with the people — this was what the Poles intended to do […]
Victims of Zaleska Wola
Civil population […]
1948 Babiak Anna (in the village called Cwak) — born around 1900, murdered in the summer by a Polish immigrant by the New Pryhin road”.
source: „Spohad Iwana Pawłyka”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 247—257
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
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