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
Ratnawica
Sanok pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Sanok cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
6
max.:
14
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
2
max.:
9
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12291
date:
1945–1946
site
description
general info
Ratnawica
Excerpt from Stepan Golasz 'Mar', the situational report of the OUN reporter from the 'Beskid' district about the murder of a Ukrainian in Ratnawica by Polish Army soldiers:
„The Polish Army from Sanok attacked [illegible date — BH] the village of Ratnawica in order to deport her inhabitants. They found no one in the village except the elderly and the disabled. They burned down one house and threw the 70‑year‑old farmer into the fire”.
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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
12290
date:
1946.01.22
alternatively:
20.01.1946, 27.01.1946
site
description
general info
Ratnawica
January 20, 1946, typescript — Fragment of the notification of the OUN clerk from District I of the Zakerzonya Region about the murder of Ukrainians in Ratnawica by Polish Army soldiers:
„On January 22, 1946 at 1am […] the army went through Bełchówka to Ratnawica. They took with them a field kitchen, rifles and mortars, they surrounded the village and began to rob chickens and household items, they caught men and beat them senseless. They killed escaping shhoting them. They murdered the Ukrainian farmer Mazur M. and the cripple Kotyk Mykoła dismembered [as in the document]. They found a rifle at Stepan Biłas. Together with his father, they brought him to Bukowsko and beat him terribly, sticking the red–hot wires into his mouth. They released the burnt father, and took his son with them, where they murdered him in front of everybody. They tied other people with ropes and kept them in the snow for 5 hours. They took all the men from Ratnawica, some of them murdered in the forest”.
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 notification of Stepan Stebelski 'Chrin', the UPA company commander 'Szturmowiec–5' for Wasyl Mizerny 'Ren', the commander of the UPA Lemko Battalion about the murder by Polish Army soldiers on Ukrainians in Ratnawica:
„[On January 25, 1946, soldiers of the Polish Army murdered] 6 [boys] in Ratnawica (they cut off their ears, eyes, noses), and in the Buków forest they arrested 7 who were certainly killed. Ratnawica collapsed.
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]
1946 February 1, typescript [Sanockie] — Fragment of a translation into Polish of an information report by Maria Kypkyszko 'Stepowa', the propaganda reporter of the 'Beskid' district concerning the murders of the Polish Army on the Ukrainian inhabitants of the village of Ratnawica:
„On January 20, there were excursion groups of about 120 people with mortars, various weapons and telephone equipment. These groups had a cruel attitude towards the Ukrainian population [...] Ratnawica — three people were murdered, 14 were taken, an over 45‑year‑old woman had her arms broken, men were beaten, needles were stuck under her nails, and her heels were burned with candles. A cripple who returned from the Bolshevik army was beaten to a wound on a leg that had not yet healed”.
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]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
3 + few (max. 13)
min. 5
max. 13
ref. no:
11037
date:
1946.05.27–1946.05.28
site
description
general info
Ratnawica
In the village of Ratnanica, poviat Przemyśl, [the Ukrainians] burned down all farms and murdered several Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
few
min. 2
max. 9
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