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
Żurawce
Rawa Ruska pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Tomaszów Lubelski cou., Lublin voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
19
max.:
19
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
40
max.:
40
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12595
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Żurawce
List of 15 Ukrainians murdered by various formations of the Republic of Poland:
„Bida Ołeksander 1920–1943, Sr. Łuki, murdered by Polish gangs”.
source: Wiszka Emilian, „Żurawce. The village of Żurawce in documents, in the pages of history and in the memories of its former inhabitants ”, in: Toruń 2014, p. 568—574
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:
12596
date:
1944–1946
site
description
general info
Żurawce
List of 15 Ukrainians murdered by various formations of the Republic of Poland:
„Bida Anna 1920–1946, died during a raid of the Polish Army”.
source: Wiszka Emilian, „Żurawce. The village of Żurawce in documents, in the pages of history and in the memories of its former inhabitants ”, in: Toruń 2014, p. 568—574
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:
09194
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Żurawce
Local The Ukrainians and from Ruda Różaniecka murdered all Poles living here and eight from Ruda Różaniecka; about 38 Poles in total, and their bodies were burnt together with the buildings.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
38
min. 38
max. 38
ref. no:
08417
date:
1944.11.23
site
description
general info
Żurawce
The UPA murdered the gamekeeper Witko.
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:
12593
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Żurawce
Excerpt from the report „Wisti z terenu” of April 18, 1945:
„The Polish Army robbed Ruda Żurawicka, killing 5 people and burning 18 farms”.
source: „Wytiah iż Wistej z terenu pro antyukrajinśki akciji polakiw na Hrubeszcziwszczyni 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:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
12600
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Żurawce
List of 15 Ukrainians murdered by various formations of the Republic of Poland:
„Żołondek Hawryszko. About 70 years, in 1945 murdered with bayonets in the yard of his own farm by the Polish Army”."
source: Wiszka Emilian, „Żurawce. The village of Żurawce in documents, in the pages of history and in the memories of its former inhabitants ”, in: Toruń 2014, p. 568—574
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:
09267
date:
1945.01.19
site
description
general info
Żurawce
The Ukrainians murdered Władysław Żygalicki.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 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:
12592
date:
1945.04.09
site
description
general info
Żurawce
Excerpt from the UPA military intelligence report on the murder of unknown armed formations of the Republic of Poland and NKVD against 2 Ukrainians in Żurawce:
„9.4. [1945]. At 4 am, Poles and the Bolsheviks, 150 people, came to Netreba (Żurawce), where they searched and robbed the inhabitants. They took clothes, shoes and food. They killed 1 man, 1 woman and wounded 1 boy […]
'Zorianyj'”
source: „Wijśkowa rozwidka za czas wid 1.4 do 15.41945”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 3, sh. 64
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:
12598
date:
1945.04.09
site
description
general info
Żurawce
List of 15 Ukrainians murdered by various formations of the Republic of Poland:
„Folusewycz Eliasz (Hyło; Netreba) — April 9, 1945 shot by the Polish Army”.
source: Wiszka Emilian, „Żurawce. The village of Żurawce in documents, in the pages of history and in the memories of its former inhabitants ”, in: Toruń 2014, p. 568—574
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:
12594
date:
1945.05.13
site
description
general info
Żurawce
Excerpt from the report „Wisti z terenu” from District II of the Zakerzonya Region for May 1 — June 5, 1945:
„On May 13 [1945] a conscious Ukrainian, Łoza, died tragically”.
source: „Informacija pro antyukrajinśki akciji na Hrubesziwszczyni w trawni-kwitni 1945”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 870, 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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
12599
date:
1947
site
description
general info
Żurawce
List of 15 Ukrainians murdered by various formations of the Republic of Poland:
„Szumada Łonhyn (Londer, Jaryczka) around 1915 […] , in 1947 arrested by the Polish Army, tortured, shot”.
source: Wiszka Emilian, „Żurawce. The village of Żurawce in documents, in the pages of history and in the memories of its former inhabitants ”, in: Toruń 2014, p. 568—574
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:
12597
date:
1947.06
site
description
general info
Żurawce
List of 15 Ukrainians murdered by various formations of the Republic of Poland:
„Bohdan (Dziubycha) Paraskevia 1908—1947, on her property there was a hideout of the UPA unit. After detection in June 1947 by the Polish Army and liquidation of 4 UPAs, the woman was killed and thrown into the ashes of a burnt hut.
Butrym (Popyk) Mychajło 1920—1947, killed in June 1947 in Żurawce after refusing to enter the bunker in the Dziubycha farmyard”.
source: Wiszka Emilian, „Żurawce. The village of Żurawce in documents, in the pages of history and in the memories of its former inhabitants ”, in: Toruń 2014, p. 568—574
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
min. 6
max. 6
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