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
Bachórz
Brzozów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Rzeszów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
2
max.:
14
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
2
max.:
16
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11694
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Excerpt from Mieczysław Żeńczak's testimony about the murders of 2 Ukrainians in Bachórz by members of the Home Army in Dynów:
„On the day when we were with Kordowski and the village administrator about these cows [in Chodorówka], Władysław Stanisław's son came to the mayor of Sikor and told Kordowski that he caught a Ukrainian on the road. Kordowski identified this Ukrainian, then ordered Sikora Władysław and Kucoń Stanisław to lead the Ukrainian to the forest and shoot what they had done. I learned from Tadeusz's Osypanka that the above–mentioned Sikora Władysław and Kuc Stanisław shot a Ukrainian woman in this way also in the forest”.
source: „Zeznanie Żeńczaka”, 21 IV 1948; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 107/772, sh. 2
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 the report of the interrogation of Jan Gąski by the PUBP investigator in Brzozów about the murder of a Ukrainian woman in Bachórz:
„I can say that Kuc Stanisław together with Sidor Władysław […] murdered a woman I did not know in the 'na honiu' forest [?]. This murder was witnessed by me, Wasilkiewicz Maria from Bachórz and Maria Tarnowska from Bachórz”.
source: „Protocol from the interrogation of the suspect J. Gąski”, 16 III 1948; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 107/721, sh. 139
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+1
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11697
date:
1945.03
site
description
general info
Bachórz
Fragment of the report of the interrogation of the PUBP investigating officer in Brzozów of the witness Władysław Kaszycki about the murder of 2 Ukrainians and 3 Ukrainians in Bachórz:
„Question: «What do you know about Pieczonka Casimir from Bachórz?»
Answer: «Pieczonka Casimir, son of Vasyl, living in Bachórz in Brzozów county. In March 1945, in the fields of Bachórz, he arrested two individuals unknown to me, whom he then abducted to Wawrzyniec Chrobak, who lived in Bachórz, and there he locked them in the basement next to the house in front of the windows. I would like to explain that Pieczonka stopped these people during the day, I do not remember the date, and he kept them overnight, and in the morning he was supposed to shoot them […] The next day, Casimir said to me that he had shot these people. Pieczonka said to me again on April 25, 1945, when we were going to the town of Brzozów, that he himself shot those people who were arrested in Bachórz and buried them behind the old road in the Chrobak Wawrzyniec field […] »”
source: „Protocol from the questioning of the witness W. Kaszycki”, 10 III 1948; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 107/721, vol. 1, sh. 156
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:
11695
date:
1945.03–1945.06
(spring)
site
description
general info
Fragment of the interrogation of Jan Gąska by the Polish Security Service PUBP investigator in Brzozów about the murders of Ukrainians in Bachórz by members of the Home Army AK in Dynów:
„Then in the spring of 1945, on the orders of Kordowski 'Stach', I went with Bukowiński, Szymański, Kossakowski, Szałajka Franciszek, Tereszczak and Pieniążek Kazimierz and Pilip Władysław (now in the west), we were all armed with firearms (I had an typescript machine gun, owned by Pilip Henryk) to the village of Costowa, Przemyśl poviat, and here we took two men from a house unknown to me, indicated by Pieniążek Kazimierz, whom we led everyone under the Parasol, a mountain in the village of Chodorówka with their belongings, which they had with them as visitors, and here, i.e. under the Parasol, I shot one and the other man was shot by Szałajko Franciszek with a pistol, because Kossakowski, who wanted to shoot the other, jammed the machine. The others were with us during the murder of those mentioned and took part only in burying the corpses, but I took the documents of the murdered and gave them to Kordowski. We shared the things of the murdered with Szymański at home and I got pants […]
Then, in the spring of 1945, Kośmider Eugeniusz from Bachórz brought two men to the road in Chodorówka with their belongings and met me, that is Gąska Jan, Siwski Jan, now at West, Bukowińskie Władysław, Bielec Mieczysław, and one of the two is Szymański or Kossakowski, I don't remember exactly that. All of the above were with weapons, I had a parabellum pistol. So, together with Kośmider Eugeniusz, we took these two men and led them to Recepta, a mountain in the village of Chodorówka, where I shot one of the men, and the other Siwski Jan, and we shared the things, from which I got pants, a shirt and bristles, the rest took part in burying of these corpses, they were with us during the shooting […]
After that, I do not remember anything else, but I want to add that when we took two men from Costowa and shot them under the 'Parasol', a woman was also taken who she walked with these men, which I personally shot from the MP”.
source: „Protocol from the interrogation of the suspect J. Gąski”, 14 IV 1948; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 107/772, sh. 45
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:
11696
date:
1945.04
site
description
general info
Excerpt from Mieczysław Żeńczak's testimony about the murder of a Ukrainian, Maria Maksio in Bachórz–Chodorówka, by members of the Home Army in Dynów:
„In April 1945, I received an order from Kordowski nom‑de‑guerre 'Stach' to take people and liquidate Maksio Maria from Chodorówka, who returned from Germany and scared the employees of the municipal office in Dynów and the village administrator Sikora Jan from Bachórz with the departure to Siberia. She wanted a field and a meadow left by her Ukrainian father, who was deported abroad. The sentence was handed down by Kordowski after the intervention of the mayor of Sikora Jan. That evening, I took Tadeusz's Osypanka, Aleksander's Siekańc and Edmund's Chrobak, and we went to Maria Maksio's house, where Koszelnik Wawrzyniec and his family, whom we ordered to enter the chamber, also lived. Then we entered the apartment with Tadeusz Osypanka, we told Maksio Maria to get dressed and take his things and come with us. Chrobak and Siekujec were in front of Maria Maksi's house, asking where to go with us. She took two suitcases with a wardrobe and went with us. We told her that we were going to the commander to clarify the matter of this field. We led her to a field near Laskowska road. Tazm we shot [her] with a P‑38 pistol. Chrobak Edmund had no guns, the three of us had guns. Her things were divided, but I took the jewelry that was to be sold by Kordowski for organizational purposes, but Kordowski stated that it was imitation jewelry and gave me back”.
source: „Zeznanie Żeńczaka”, 21 IV 1948; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 107/772, sh. 2
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:
11693
date:
1945.06–1945.09
(summer)
site
description
general info
Fragment of the report of the interrogation by the PUBP investigating officer in Brzozów of the witness Władysław Kaszycki about the murder of 4 Ukrainians from Costowa:
„Question: «What can you explain about the murder at Krupa's house?»
Answer: «As for the murder at Krupa Tadeusz in Chodorówka, I can to explain that in the summer of 1945, I do not remember the date, three women came from the station in Bachórz, who were returning from Germany, and probably came from the village of Costowa, Przemyśl poviat. On the night of the same day, unknown perpetrators came and kidnapped these women with their suitcases. Later, King Zofia and Olecka, who lived in Chodorówka, told me that her neighbor, Pilawy Franciszka, who lived in Chodorówka, told her, that she heard how these women were led away from Krupa Mateusz, they shouted loudly in the fields for help […] »
Question: «What can you explain, what activity was conducted by Bukowiński Władysław?»
Answer: «Bukowiński Władysław […] in the summer of 1945, I do not remember closer to the date, on the main road in Chodorówka, in front of Bielec Wojciech's house, he detained a very young woman, whom he identified as along the way and looked at her bundle she was carrying. He looked at her things and took the woman with him, taking her to the house of Szałajka Franciszek, son of Jan, who lived in Chodorówka. There she was said to have been locked in a basement. I watched all this on purpose, from the afternoon hours in the summer to the evening, this woman from Szałajka Franciszka's house did not leave. On the same day, Pilip Władysław traveled to the village of Costowa as a messenger. He was to find out if the woman was not Ukrainian and, as I heard later, he allegedly later stated that the woman was Ukrainian and she was executed because no one knew she would leave the place»”.
source: „Protocol from the questioning of the witness W. Kaszycki”, 10 III 1948; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 107/721, vol. 1, sh. 156
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+1
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
11420
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Bachórz
The UPA robbed and murdered two Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1946 and in 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11339
date:
1946.11
site
description
general info
The UPA massacred 12 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1946 and Autumnof 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.27]
„In November 1946, the Bandera followers murdered Jan Domino in Chodorówka near Bachórz, and Jan Sikora, the village leader in Bachórz”.
source: Fr Nabywaniec Stanisław, Fr Jan Rogula (Rzeszów Uniwersity), „Over the blue San. And so it was in Polish-Ukrainian relations until 1947.”; in: Krupa Jan (ed.), „Sustainable tourism as an opportunity to protect the natural environment, cultural heritage and economic development of the communes of the Dynowskie Foothills”, in: Dynów 2014 — web page: www.pogorzedynowskie.pl [accessible: 2021.06.10]
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:
12—14
min. 12
max. 14
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