January 24, 1946, Sanok — Fragment of the intelligence report of the staff of the 34th regiment for the commander of the 8th infantry division of the Polish Army on the battle of the 'Poraż' Operational Group with an UPA unit in the village of Zawadka Morochowska:
„'Poraż' Operational Group after conducting an action in the Morochów area (8286), where two Bandera followers were killed, and in the town of Mokre (8006), where two Bandera followers were killed, she came across a Bandera band of about 2,000 in the town of Zawadka Morochowska (8084). As a result of battle, 21 Banderites were killed, 1 'Nagan' pistol was obtained and the documents of one of the dead were taken. Own losses: 3 injured, including 1 heavy mortars, 2 82 mm mortars, 30 mins, 2 km of telephone cable, 2 wagons and 2 pairs of horses. During the action, it was found that in all houses of a given village there are two‑story beds, and in the stables and barns there are many riding horses. When our army appeared in those areas, all men from Morochów (8286), Mokre (8086), Czaszyn (7890), Zawadka Morochowska (8084) were mobilized by the Bandera followers. The staff HQ, assembly, supply and ammunition point is the village of Zawadka Morochowska.
At 17.30 the 'Poraż' group returned to the Olchowce station after the battle, which lasted from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Tomorrow, the group will be sent to Zawadka Morochowska with the most likely reinforcement from the Red Army troops stationed in Sanok with the task of recovering the lost weapons and the destruction of the bands there.
II acting assistant to the Chief of Staff
Ludwikow Bereznicki, 2nd Lt”.

source: „A reconnaissance report to the commander of the B. Głowacki's 8th Dresden 'Cross of Grunwald' infantry division – II Department of January 24, 1946”; in: Military Historical Office, Central Military Archives , in: CAW IV.521.8.9, sh. 88

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]

January 25, 1946, Sanok — Intelligence report of the staff of the 34th regiment for the commander of the 8th infantry division of the Polish Army on the operations of regimental operational groups in the village of Zawadka Morochowska:
„Based on the recognition that the 'Poraż' Group brought us, which, as a result of a strong Bandera unit, withdrew from Zawadka Morochowska (8084) yesterday, losing 2 mortars 82 mm and 30 mm, 2 km of telephone cable, 2 wagons and 2 pairs of horse–drawn horses, it was found that a Bandera group of about 2,000 people, armed with a large number of machine guns, consisted of men mobilized in recent days in the villages of Morochów (8286), Mokre (8086), Czaszyn (7890), Zawadka Morochowska (8084). The unit was accommodated in Zawadka Morochowska, where there were two‑story beds in the houses, while the stables and barns were occupied by riding horses belonging to the gangs. On the basis of photographs and receipts found by one of the dead, it was found that the town of Zawadka Morochowska was the seat of the Bandera headquarters. Therefore, three cooperating Operational Groups with a total force of 290 people were organized, which began the action in the above–mentioned area today at 9:00 am. As a result of the action carried out today, it was found that the Bandera followers who met yesterday in Zawadka Morochowska (8084) withdrew towards the south, Płonna (8680). During this operation, the Operational Group from the 36th WOP Commandant Office was shelled by armed civilians in Zawadka Morochowska. As a result of the ensuing fight, a fire broke out, during which strong and frequent detonations could be heard, which meant that the Banderites' weapons were stored in this village  […]
II acting assistant to the Chief of Staff
Ludwikow Bereznicki, 2nd Lt”.

source: „A reconnaissance report to the commander of the B. Głowacki's 8th Dresden 'Cross of Grunwald' infantry division – II Department of January 25, 1946”; in: Military Historical Office, Central Military Archives , in: CAW IV.521.8.9, sh. 100

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]

23 January 1946 operational group of the 36 command section Olechowiec in the strength of 80 soldiers under the command of 2nd Lt. Henryk Garbowski, while conducting reconnaissance, broke up the UPA sub–units in the villages of Morochow and Mokre. In Zawadka Morochowska she encountered greater enemy forces (base). She was forced to withdraw. Two rolling stock and two 82 mm mortars remained on the battlefield. the attempt to retrieve the weapon the next day failed. During the fight, part of the village burned down, and the enemy withdrew.
On January 25, a 120–person unit from the 34th Budziszyn Infantry Regiment entered Zawadka Morochowska, burning the village and killing dozens of inhabitants, including women and children. The attack was led by the commander of 34 pp, Lt. Col. Stanisław Pluto. This was done despite the fact that no inhabitant of the village was a member of the UPA. The soldiers of the 3rd battalion of the 34th Infantry Regiment, later captured by the UPA, testified that the 2nd Battalion of the 34th Infantry Regiment of the 8th Infantry Regiment was guilty of the crime. Their explanations appeared in a brochure published by the OUN entitled Bloody Trail of Stalinist Democracy. One of the victims of the attack, Kateryna Tomasz, managed to tell the UPA partisans who arrived at the scene that she had seen Polish peasants from the village of Niebieszczany together with the soldiers.
The number of victims of the first crime in Zawadka Morochowska has not been clearly established. The above–mentioned brochure mentions 56 people killed, while stating that there were approximately 70 victims. There are also numbers 64, 68 or 78 killed. The crime was committed in a cruel way, the victims were mutilated and tortured before their death. Most of the victims were buried in a mass grave in the Zawadka Morochowska cemetery, only a few were buried in family graves.

source: „The crimes in Zawadka Morochowska”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]

A unit of the Polish Army appeared in Zawadka Morochowska [for the third time] on April 13, 1946 and killed six random Ukrainian civilians.

source: „The crimes in Zawadka Morochowska”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]

January 20, 1946, typescript — Fragment of the notification of the OUN clerk from District I of the Zakerzonya Region about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Zawadka Morochowska:
„On January 25, 1946, in the early morning, Poles and civilians from [illegible place names — BH ] to the village of Zawadka Morochowska, which they burned whole and slaughtered, throwing over 70 people into the fire. They did not shoot any of them, but they cut them with bayonets, stabbed eyes, cut off parts of the body, etc. The place of the ruin looks terrible. They did not spare even the little babies, they also butchered them. Civilian Poles from Niebieszczany, Andruszkowiec and Pobiedno took part in the murder of people from Zawadka Morochowska”.

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]

January 27, 1946, typescript — Fragment of the notification from Stepan Stebelski 'Chrin', the UPA company commander 'Szturmowiec–5' to Wasyl Mizerny 'Ren', the commander of the UPA Lemko Battalion about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Zawadka Morochowska:
„Glory to Ukraine!
Colleague Commander!
Polish bandits, after inflicting a disgraceful blow on January 24, 1946, having collected about 5 sotnyas of the Polish Army, 2 NKVD cars, a hundred Lachs from Niebieszczany and Poraż, on January 25, 1946, at 8 am attacked the village of Zawadka Morochowska. I, with two platoons and the commander of the Security Service, were prepared for defense in the forest, concluding that there would be an attack into the forest. They surrounded us from Niebieszczany, Morochów, Mokre, Wysoczany and Płonna, and behind us from Bełchówka. In this way, they set up barriers from the forest, and with scum from Niebieszczany they attacked Zawadka Morochowska so suddenly, without any shots, that within 20—30 minutes they literally slaughtered 68 women, children (even from 2 years old) and the elderly. Many people had their tongues, bellies, breasts, throats cut, etc. Half of the slaughtered in half were burned by the fire. A terrible sight, I have never seen such a sight in my life. Cruelty worse than during Nero or Huns. There are still many [murdered] people missing from the number quoted above. [The attackers] took all the cattle from the village and suddenly fled.
Nobody managed to inform us about the attack, because they led him quietly. The soldiers are outraged to the max. Although I have few soldiers, I would have gone to fight to the last one.
I helped the injured villagers by giving them medications and bandages.
Niebieszczany ask not to be burnt, because from now on there will be nothing left — that's the meanness of the bandits!
I downloaded a photographer who photographed it.
The main role in the murder was played by the NKVD, Jews and the inhabitants of Niebieszczany”.

source: „Powidomłennia pro napad na seło Zawadka Morochiwśka 25 sicznia 1946”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 988, 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]

January 30, 1946, typescript — Fragment of a report by an unknown OUN clerk of the V region in District I of the Zakerzonya Region about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Zawadka Morochowska:
„On January 25, 1946, the Polish Red Army and the Bolsheviks numbering of about 300 people surrounded the villages of Mokre and Zawadka Morochowska. There were also sub–units in Morochów and Wisłok. Around 9 o'clock they burned Zawadka Morochowska and murdered almost all the people there. Even tiny babies and old women were not spared. They killed almost everyone with bayonets in a terribly inhuman manner. Babies had their bellies ripped open, their eyes were stabbed, women had their breasts cut off, their tongues were cut off, and a dozen or so children were thrown into the fire. Before their death, they tortured everyone in an inhuman way. All victims had bayonets pierced by their arms and legs, and some had their calves severed. In addition, all the murdered had broken hands, dozen‑or‑so years‑old children had their heads cut off. It is impossible to describe all animal orgies.
The village was burned down, all the horses and cows were taken away. The following people were murdered:
1. Neczysty Andrij — 53 years old;
2. Neczysty Iwan — 55;
3. Dobriański Mykoła — 49;
4. Izdebski Nestor — 25;
5. Bończak Osyp — 42;
6. Kłepczyk Dmytro — 26;
7. Kyryłejza Petro — 35;
8. Izdebski Petro — 67;
9. Izdebski Mychajło — 33;
10. Hryńko Iwan — 76;
11. Cyhanyk Iwan — 38;
12. Cyhanyk Mykoła — 41;
13. Cyhanyk Wołodymyr — 9;
14. Morejda Mychajło — 1s5;
15. Morejda Wołodymyr — 8;
16. Tomasz Stepan — 2;
17. Nonczak Dmytro — 56;
18. Nonczak Iwan — 69;
19. Dudyńczak Osyp — 49;
20. Neczysty Taras — 8;
21. Biłas Iwan — 45;
22. Biłas Teodor — 70;
23. Maksym Andrij — 75;
24. Maksym Stepan — 9;
25. Kyryłejza Jarosław — 4;
26. Biłas Kateryna — 42;
27. Bańczak Kateryna — 37;
28. Bańczak Amrija — 12;
29. Kyryłejza Kateryna — 48;
30. Kozłyk Marija — 67;
31. Kozłyk Jewa — 40;
32. Kozłyk Anna — 20;
33. Pysanyk Kateryna — 74;
34. Cyhanyk Anastazija — 39;
35. Morejda Marija — 45;
36. Morejda Anna — 17;
37. Tomasz Kateryna — 32;
38. Tomasz Marija — 7;
39. Tomasz Anna — 4;
40. Bończak Anna — 39;
41. Dudeńczak Anastazija — 48;
42. Izdebska Jewa — 35;
43. Izdebska Kateryna — 6 months old;
44. Neczysta Kateryna — 42;
45. Neczysta Mahdsałyna — 46;
46. Neczysta Sofija — 11;
47. Neczysta Marija — 6;
48. Biłas Marija — 39;
49. Biłas Sofija — 7;
50. Neczysta Anna — 50;
51. Neczysta Kateryna — 20;
52. Bis Jewa — 40;
53. Maksym Anastazija — 37;
54. Maksym Kateryna — 4;
55. Maksym Anna — 1;
56. Maksym Marta — 49;
57. Kyryłejza Marija — 39;
58. Kyryłejza Anna — 16;
59. Kyryłejza Kateryna — 14;
60. Biłas Kateryna — 60;
61. Biłas Milana — 52.
Cyhanyk Wasyl, Neczysty Mykhaylo, Maksym Iwan were injured — the Poles thought they were dead.
After this murder and the burning of the village, the Polish lieutenant commanding the operation reported to his Bolshevik superior [in Russian]:
— «Tavarishch captain, vashe prikazannye spolniennoye, sozhgli dyerevnya, lyudey unichtozhyli».
[Eng. «Comrada captain, you order has been carried out, village burnt down, people killed»
To which he replied:
— «Good».
In addition to bandits from the Polish Army and NKVD units, Polish inhabitants of Niebieszczany also participated in the murder of the Ukrainian village of Zawadka Morochowska. The peasants recognized one of these civilian bandits — his name is Kuczer Jan.
With such methods, the Bolshevik cannibals, together with their Polish bandit servants, try to force the Ukrainian inhabitants of the Lemkos region to «voluntarily leave» to the USSR. In addition to Pawłokoma, Wiązownica, Małkowice and dozens of other examples of unheard–beastly behaviourbeastly behaviour, murders and banditry, we note new shocking scenes of the barbaric slaughter of women, children and old men by Polish–Bolshevik monsters in human skin”.

source: „Zwit pro akciju na seło Zawadka Morochiwśka Sianićkoho powitu”, Powidomłennia pro napad na seło Zawadka Morochiwśka 25 sicznia 1946; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 988—991, 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]

1946 February 1, typescript [Sanockie] — Polish translation of 'Stepowa' information report on the murders of Ukrainian inhabitants of the village of Zawadka Morochowska by the Polish Army:
„In the village of Zawadka Morochowska, our unit fought a fight with bandits robbing the village. The bad guys left everything — mortars, carts with property and ammunition, they fled towards the Polish village of Niebieszczany. The next day, they gathered more forces, led by Soviet officers stationed in neighboring villages, rushed into the village and murdered 66 people, and burned almost all the cottages. The victims of the murders were mainly children under one or even six months, women and the elderly. Usually the men escaped into the forest. Out of 66 dead bodies, there were only 4 men who were shot while escaping from the hut. Others were beaten with butts, stabbed with bayonets, stabbed and burned (6 or 7 people). The view was terrible. In the site of fire, in gardens, courtyards and on the road there were 3‑4 children aged from half a year to 5‑6 years old, their bellies ripped, their throats cut, some had a few bayonet holes on their backs, breasts or heads. Whole families, consisting of 6‑7 people, lay murdered, people were killed on the road, at work (one was killed while chopping a tree, with an ax in his hand). Young girls had their breasts cut off, their legs cut off. Most of the bodies were blue from the butts of the butt, mostly on the faces and hands. The hands of the adult victims were cut as if with barbed wire or the like, and the blood gushing from the veins had already clotted on them. The body of one old man was in a very strange position — a kneeling figure with a face turned upwards. Death probably caught up with him while he was praying. His back was bayoneted, his body was burned. The corpses were so burned that the shape of the head and the individual parts of the body was hardly discernible. Four people were seriously injured. One died within half a day, the rest lay in some shacks and surviving huts. Here and there, there is only one child left in the family, an old man or an old woman. Like ghosts, they wandered around the ruins, constantly examining the bodies of the nearest beings and breaking their hands with despair. Here and there I heard the soul–rending sob”.

source: „Sanok region in January 1946”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 320

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]

March 3, 1946, near Zawadka Morochowska — Fragment of the report of the interrogation by the SB‑OUN of Bronislaw Kuźma, the commander of the 5th company of the 34th IR of the 8th division of the Polish Army, about his participation in the murder of the inhabitants of Zawadka Morochowska:
„The next day [January 29 or 25, 1946 — BH] Colonel Pluto ordered the 2nd and 3rd battalions to burn Zawadka Morochowska. The 2nd battalion went to Zawadka Morochowska, and the 3rd battalion was in Mokry as security. The action on Zawadka Morochowska was commanded on the orderd of Colonel Pluto, the commander of the 3rd battalion, Captain Kozyra, although his battalion was in Mokry, and our commander, Captain Gutowski, stayed with the 3rd battalion. Companies 4th, 5th and 6th entered the village. They burned the village and murdered the inhabitants  […] I, together with my company, burned and murdered the central part of the village. I myself shot one Ukrainian man, aged around 40‑48. I pierced his belly and then pierced him twice — he begged to be killed. I myself did not murder anyone else, but among us there were those who liked this job. They slaughtered children, gouged out their eyes, revived their tongues, cut off women's breasts  […] On the next day our 2nd battalion received praise from Colonel Pluto for the good conduct of the action”.

source: Staruch 'Stiah' Jarosław, „Nowitni warwary. Nowi Lidice”; in: Moroz W. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Nowa seria, Kijów-Toronto 2012, vol. 21: „Jarosław Staruch. Documents and records”, p. 673—674, 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]

On January 25, 1946, the 2nd Battalion (commanded that day by Captain Kzyra) of the 34th Regiment of the Polish Army (Commander Lt. Col. Stanisław Pluto) at 8 am took the Ukrainian village of Zawadka Morochowska. The action lasted half an hour. List of victims (incomplete) [List compiled families]:
„Biłas Kateryna (about 60), Biłas Pełahija (about 50), Biłas Ewa (36), Biłas Teodor (65), Biłas Iwan (46), Biłas Marija (38), Biłas Sofija (7), Biłas Katarzyna, Bonczak Osyp, Bonczak Marija (wife) Bonczak Kateryna (daughter), Bonczak Dmytro (50) Bonczak Iwan (brother), Cyhanyk Wasyl, Cyhanyk Kateryna (mother), Cyhanyk Iwan, Dobriański Mykoła, Dudyńczak Anastasja (40), Dudyńczak Osyp (40 years old), Hrynio Iwan, Izdebska Ewa, Izdebska Kateryna (6 months) Izdebski Mychajło Izdebski Petro (brother), Izdebski Nestor, Klemczyk Anna, Klemczyk Dmytro, Kozłyk Kateryna, Kozłyk Anna, Kozłyk Ewa, Kyryłaza Marija (41 years, born in the USA) Kyryłąza Anna (daughter, 16) Kyryłąza Kateryna (daughter of 15), Kyryłąza Kateryna, Kyryłaza Jaroslaw (son), Kyryłąza Petro (brother), Maksym Andrij (70), Maksym Marija (wife), Maksym Anastasija (daughter–in–law), Maksym Stepan (10 years old), Maksym Kateryna (4 years old), Maksym Anna (1 year), Pure Anna, Pure Kateryna (daughter, 20 years old), Pure Mykhailo o (wounded), Naked Kateryna (wife), Heavenly Sophia (daughter, 8), Heavenly Maria (daughter, 6), Heavenly Taras (3 years old), Heavenly Mahdalyna (17), Heavenly Andriy, Heavenly Ivan, Tomasz Kateryna, Tomasz Marija (daughter), Tomasz Anna (daughter), Tomasz Stepan (son)”.

source: „Annals of the World Federetaion of Lemkiv”, in: No. 2, Camillus (USA) 1975, p. 168—172

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]

Translation into Polish of Włodzimierz Biłas's account of the murder of Ukrainians in the village of Zawadka Morochowska, published by Stefan Migus in the weekly „Our Word” No. 15 from 1990:
„— «The Polish Army attacked Zawadka Morochowska for the first time on January 24, 1946»— recalls Volodymyr Biłas, the then fourteen‑year‑old resident of the village.
— «The soldiers came and came in carts from Morochów and Mokre. They robbed almost all day what they could get their hands on. They beat anyone who turned up. My father managed to escape with the horse to the forest. Not before the Poles, because — as it seemed to him — he lived in harmony with them. He ran away because he was afraid of losing his horse.
In the morning of the next day he woke me up and shouted:
— ‹Take your horse quickly and run to the forest, the army is surrounding the village!›.
Some have already escaped. The soldiers had already surrounded the village, I saw them hidden in the bushes, but they did not stop me. They probably thought we didn't know anything about them yet and didn't want to show up. Driving on, I met a group of people returning from the woods. They were frozen. They already knew about the soldiers, they heard from me, but they rejected the idea of danger — there was silence in the village. These people did not think that the seizure like the day before could happen again.
The military let them pass. They entered the trap unhindered. When I was already about 200 meters deep in the forest, I heard shooting and screams from the Zawadka side. It was eight in the morning. The shots and cries for help scared me so much that I didn't know what to do, but the horse led me to the people who were hiding in the forest. Together we went even deeper into the forest. After a long march, we met a UPA unit. We told the partisans about the shooting and terrible screams in the village. I added that the village was on fire. Several partisans went to scout. Soon they returned with sadness on their faces. They didn't want to tell us anything, just reported something to the commanders. I sensed the worst, but there was hope in my soul. After all, my parents, a little sister, a seven–month–old brother stayed there.
Already at the beginning of the village, we saw a terrible picture — the people I met in the forest, when they were returning to Zawadka, were dead. Dead bodies lay all over the village. They lay where the soldiers had caught them and stabbed them with bayonets. And they were murdering everyone with bayonets: children, adults, women, old people. My dad was the only one they shot. They shot in the back as the tree was chopping. They caught up with my mother with a seven–month–old brother and a seven‑year‑old sister in the yard. They cut my mother's tongue and pricked the whole body with bayonets. She was also stabbed with a bayonet, my brother was nowhere to be found. While searching for the wounded, people saw that my mother seemed to move. They turned it over and saw my little brother underneath it. He was covered in blood, but he was alive. Mom saved his life by covering him with her own body. However, she herself died in terrible torments.
It is difficult to describe the appearance of Zawadka Morochowska after these attacks. About 10 people survived this slaughter, and over 100 soldiers were murdered. The attacks were repeated twice more, but then only men, even the wounded, were killed.
This bestiality is hard to understand. Badly injured Kateryna Tomasz — the soldiers stabbed her three children in front of her eyes — told the partisans from the UPA about everything she had seen with her own eyes, and a protocol was created from this. She also said that the soldiers were helped by Poles from the village of Niebieszczany.
Marusia Maksym was saved by a miracle. When the soldiers burst into the village and ran towards it, she hid behind her grandmother. The grandmother, stabbed with bayonets, pulled her granddaughter on herself and covered herself with her body. And thus she survived.
The same lieutenant commanded all the attacks. He rode a white horse around the village and shot the wounded with a pistol. He shouted that he would shoot everyone like ducks if we did not leave for the Soviet Union. I met him later in Mokre. When I saw him, I started running away with my little brother in my arms. I ran to the hut of Josyf Płatosz, who took us orphans in after this tragedy. I prayed in my soul: if the officer finds us, let him kill both of us, along with my brother. I remembered my mother's words that when they come to kill, let them kill everyone, along with the children, to spare them the fate of unfortunate orphans. The officer found us and realized where we were from. He said not to run away because they weren't killing anymore. But how can you not run away when in front of the eyes of a fourteen‑year‑old boy there is the figure of his killed daddy, a bloodied and stabbed mother and sister.
Who murdered the inhabitants of Zawadka Morochowska is no secret. The 2nd Battalion of the 34th People's Regiment of the Polish Army took part in this terrible action. Lieutenant Colonel Stanisław Pluto commanded the regiment. I do not know the names of the lieutenant commanding the unit that murdered, but it is probably not difficult to determine.
The second, most tragic action of the 2nd battalion lasted from 8.00 to 8.30. The oldest of the murdered inhabitants was 70‑year‑old Andriy Maksym. He was burned alive. The youngest was six‑month‑old Kasia Izdebska. Her throat was cut. By the way, the army murdered the soldiers returning home from the Red Army. They were: Iwan Biłas — 35 years old, Iwan Neczysty — 41 years old, Mykhailo and Petro Izdebscy — 22 and 28 years old. These people liberated Poland from the Nazis, among others. They returned home to die in peacetime.
Residents of the nearby villages were told that the army returning from Zawadka looked as if it had left a slaughterhouse. The soldiers were bloodied, blood was on their faces and hands. There are still witnesses to this murder. Will the murderers come to justice?»”

source: „In Zawadka Morochowska”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 315—319

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]

Fragment of Anna Babiak's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Zawadka Morochowska by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„In Zawadka, to be precise, there were 49 numbers. It was a small village  […] No one from Zawadka served in the UPA  […] After my return from Germany on July 27, 1945, the village was not yet completely rebuilt [after being burnt down by German soldiers in 1944]. We started living [in our house] in December. It was so good for us… but well: we stayed for two weeks and the Polish army came. It lasted for half an hour and how many they murdered…! The first time was on January 24, [1946].
It was in the morning, around nine o'clock. Mom, sister and I ran away. We took the duvet, threw it from the bank to the bottom of the stream, and we ourselves went to the basement of the Nieczysty neighbors, because their house had not yet been built. The neighbor will also hide there. The army has arrived. It found us and, beating with its butts, said:
— «Come out, get out!».
They took Nieczystys men. They killed one, they beat the other, two brothers: Andriy and Ivan  […] We women were lucky that our end was from Mokre, our house was number 10, and they did not come to the end in murdering people. Nieczystys were rushed further to the village, where these murderers went and murdered them. They guided us together. We pushed under the bridge to hide; They also brought men: Cyhanyk Waśka, Hryniwa Mychajło, Hryniwa Petr, Józek Tomasziw. And they killed these four right on the other side of the stream, at Nieczysty on the other side. Cyhanyka was injured in the hand, he fell, but he survived, but he died from infection soon.
The military pulled me out, leads under a rifle, also my mother and sister. And he wants to shoot at me, but another arrived and says:
— «What are you doing !? Are you going to shoot such girls ?!».
And he pushed the barrel away — the bullet flew out, but went to the side.
Grandma was holding one child wrapped under the cloth. Grandma was shot and the child was left. And her brother and sister were killed, mother, grandfather and grandfather brother. They signed themselves Maksym. The girl's father ran away somewhere, and the child was lying under her grandmother. After the army was gone, the girl got up. Grandma was dead, she was already getting heavy. My father returned, they later left for Ukraine.
After the Germans burnt the village down, the blacksmith Neczysty lived in a forge. He had something of 6 children. His sister‑in‑law with her daughter and sister also sat in this forge. And now when the army came and threw a grenade, they were all murdered. One child, Yurko, and a 10‑year‑old Andrij remain. One man's hand was torn off, all the others were killed, the forge caught fire  […]
One child was frozen to the ground. It was Mykola Biłas. The army moved to Mokre, people went out in the afternoon to see what had happened in the village. They walk into the yard and the mother lies there and the child's voice is heard. Sign of life. They come, they want to pick it up, and it is frozen, cannot be taken. His older brother will come back from the stream with a cow and a horse, but what will he do — he cries  […]
It was January, frost. After the army left, the people froze, the dead turned as if they were made of wood. They were loaded on a sleigh and brought to a common pit, and if someone had a family, he was buried in the same cemetery next to the family. Maksym Kaśka is lying in the very corner, under an inclined birch, and so is my brother.
Counting from the leaning birch tree and counting from below, there are those who were murdered on the second time: Teodor Biłas, Jakytm Szurkała, Dybyk Ivan, Mykhailo Neczysty (Dziadiw) without a hand, our uncle, Fyśko Machluch, who returned from Germany with another wife, Iwan Biłas (Hnatkiw), who returned from the Russian army (he was murdered badly: they hit him with the butt so that the skull fell off and flew into the stream, all the blood fell off him in the stream) and others — Mykołaj Maszluch, Teodor Maszluch, Iwan Maszluch, Stefan Kozłyk, and then Kateryna, Marija and Anna Neczysty. The mother was killed, the daughters were lying on one side and the other. The mother had an icon on her breast, she protected herself with an icon  […] They killed them in a pile of dung, they shot them through the painting, through the Mother of God.
My brother was at home when a military man came, there was a fire under the kitchen, he took straw and lit the house. My brother asked not to set on fire, but he said:
— «I have an order».
My brother also managed to take the bed, table and cupboard out of the house. He put them next to such a culvert near the dunghill, and in a moment the next two soldiers came, killed him or what, and they say:
— «Oh, f…, he's gone»  […]
We slept in a shed near the house the night before the attack. Another neighbor came with her fiancé and we talked about the events in our Zawadka  […] In the morning my brother went to fix the sheet metal, when a neighbor came running and shouting for my brother to run away, because the army was coming. And my brother went on the way to Kyrłaza, with Bończak's cousin and brother. Then Bończak's brother escaped to the Valley, to the priest's forest, and the brother and his cousin went on. We were sitting under a rock. The stream was flowing but it was so frozen! We were standing upside down in the stream, my mother and I were hiding between the flocks. And my sister escaped along the edge of the forest, they shot after her and shot… Mashluczka was carrying a quilt on her back and she ran away with the quilt, and my sister had nothing. They shot both, but they were here and there, and the bullet didn't catch them. We under that rock, [the soldiers] walked over us, but they didn't see us. Together with us, there was a Kopka with children, she had six of them, and these children also stood in the cold water and were so quiet that they did not even grunt. One had, I know, maybe two years, and it was so quiet that it didn't even breathe… And we survived.
And that Bończak's brother is flying and says:
— «Your brother is dead! Władek Dobriański is also dead!».
Mom began to faint. She felt everything as soon as the first bullet fired before that, my mother felt this shot in her heart, and she was already dying and fainting. And here Bończak comes…
We both left. We came, we recognized it, but not by the face, but by the clothes. My cousin was already cold, and my brother was warm. His front face sagged, and on sides everything went to his ears. He got a bullet tearing in the face, and then a bullet in the heart  […]
After this murder, a person did not think about life at all, because of this fear, this pain, this regret. The man was stone, wooden, you did not feel that you were alive. It felt neither warm nor cold. It was impossible to do anything, man was clay not clay, wood not wood, he did not know if he was alive or dead at all, whether he wanted to eat or was frozen. We lost our memory of ourselves, we couldn't remember each other. People did not know where they were going, what they were doing, the children cried, and people did not know whether to give them food, what to do with them. Everything was dead, everything was murdered, food was taken, clothes were taken”.

source: „Spohad Anny Babiak (diwocze prizwyszcze Dobriańska) narodżenoji 1927 roku w Zawadci Morochiwśkij Sianićkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 224—227

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 Stepan Bończak's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Zawadka Morochowska by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„The army went from Mokry, told me to cook soup. When he left the village and went up to Niebieszczany, he had two carts of bad things with him. And the shots started. The insurgents took one wagon and some weapons from them, they killed or injured one soldier.
And the next morning, one army came from Sanok and the other from Mokre. Those who left Sanok reached Storożów, where they found a woman and her husband outside. They ordered to move to Niebieszczany. The man's name was Tarnawczyk, and his wife did not let him go alone and went with him. They led the army to Niebieszczany, to school. There the army got bluebirds and went to Zawadka. It came to Łazy, where three houses stood. I was a boy then, I was walking that way, but I didn't see them because they were all dressed in white. They weren't walking the road. They were going to Zawadka. Finally one of them stepped forward and asked me:
— «Where are you from?»
— «From Zawadka»
— «Are there any banderites?»
— «There aren't»
— «Really, there aren't?»
— «There are not»
— «are they not?!»
— «There are not»
I replied for the third time, and he hit my temple, cutting the skin with his butt.
I backed away and flew to the village. The first time they shot whoever they had shot: women, children, men. They came to Mytr Kłepczyk, shot him, and it was only 4 days when he came from Germany [from work]. He was slightly better dressed, so one [soldier] reached into his pocket and took out a Polish Mytra ID from Germany. They pulled out: Pole! The lieutenant came over and said:
— «Boys, you have to be careful because there are mixed people here».
And from that place until the end, they didn't murder the child or the woman, but the peasants themselves. Next to the school, 20 peasants were gathered and shot.
They shot three more Bończaków on the bank of the stream: Józek (called 'to Prokop'), Sztefan, who was still a little boy, and Kasia, who was of his second mother  […]
They shot my uncle and father. Uncle's name was Iwan Bończak, and my father's name was Mytro.
My sister and my aunt were running away to the forest. They were maybe less than 10 meters — and he fired. My aunt got a bullet in the heart, she fell, and sister Marysia went to the forest  […]
The next day I returned to Łazów, where I had my sister and aunt, and I saw that my uncle was burnt and my father was killed.
Like the second time the army descended the mountain, my brother, Volodymyr Bończak and Teodor Mashluch, were racing through the village. They flew in front of the school. Volodymyr's younger brother says:
— «Maybe we should turn left?»
It was not far to the forest. The older brother went through the village, and Fyśko and Volodymyr turned, but how much did they turn? Across the brook sat [a soldier] with an Erkaem machine gun and hit them through their feet. They fell. [The soldiers] started beating them so much that they broke them. Then they rolled large logs of wood over them and finished them off”.

source: „Spohad Stepana Bonczaka narodżenoho 1931 roku w Zawadci Morochiwśkij Sianićkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 229—230

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]

23 January 1946 operational group of the 36 command section Olechowiec in the strength of 80 soldiers under the command of 2nd Lt. Henryk Garbowski, while conducting reconnaissance, broke up the UPA sub–units in the villages of Morochow and Mokre. In Zawadka Morochowska she encountered greater enemy forces (base). She was forced to withdraw. Two rolling stock and two 82 mm mortars remained on the battlefield. the attempt to retrieve the weapon the next day failed. During the fight, part of the village burned down, and the enemy withdrew.
On March 28, 1946, the 34 IR unit appeared for the second time in Zawadka Morochowska. The Ukrainian population began to flee; those who did not make it were grouped near the school building. The commander of the unit announced that all those gathered would be killed for avoiding going to the USSR and for supporting the UPA. Then the soldiers pulled 11 men from the crowd and immediately shot them, and then burned some of the survivors after the previous attack on the village of huts. The murdered were buried in a mass grave in the village cemetery.

source: „The crimes in Zawadka Morochowska”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]

On January 25, 1946, the 2nd Battalion (commanded on that day by Captain Kzyra) of the 34th Regiment of the Polish Army (commander Lt. Col. Stanisław Pluto) at 8 am took the Ukrainian village of Zawadka Morochowska. The action lasted half an hour. The list of victims (incomplete) [list arranged by families]  […]
„The victims of the Polish Army from the operation on March 28, 1946:
Biłas Iwan (36 years old), Biłas Teodor (40 years old), Dobrianski Wasyl (35 years old), Kyryłaza Dmytro (48 years old), Klemczyk Mychajło (28 years old), Kozłyk Stepan (18), Maśluh Iwan (46), Masluch Mykola (26), Masluch Teodor (26), Neczysty Mykhailo (38), Szurkało Jakym (40)”.

source: „In Zawadka Morochowska”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 315—319

source: „Annals of the World Federetaion of Lemkiv”, in: No. 2, Camillus (USA) 1975, p. 168—172

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 Stepan Golasz 'Mar', the situational report of the OUN reporter from the 'Beskid' district about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Zawadka Morochowska:
„On April 13, 1946, the Polish Army battalion attacked the village of Zawadka Morochowska, Sanok district, murdering 11 people”.

source: „Wisti z terenu za czas wid 1.4 – 1.5.1946”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 77, 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]

On January 25, 1946, the 2nd Battalion (commanded on that day by Captain Kzyra) of the 34th Regiment of the Polish Army (commander Lt. Col. Stanisław Pluto) at 8 am took the Ukrainian village of Zawadka Morochowska. The action lasted half an hour. The list of victims (incomplete) [list arranged by families]  […]
„Victims of the Polish Army on April 13, 1946:
Bonczyk Volodymyr (18), Dobriański Volodymyr (15), Dobriański Ivan (22), Kyryłaza Iwan (42), Maśluch Orest (27), Unclean Siańko (3 years)”.

source: „In Zawadka Morochowska”; in: Siwicki M., „The history of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts ”, in: Warszawa 1994, vol. III, p. 315—319

source: „Annals of the World Federetaion of Lemkiv”, in: No. 2, Camillus (USA) 1975, p. 168—172

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]