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
Huta Brzuska
Dobromil pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
21
max.:
21
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11376
date:
1946.12
site
description
general info
Huta Brzuska
[The Banderites] attacked Polish farms. The witness, Jan Koterbicki, who was then almost 13 years old, recalls:
„In 1945, the Banderites' attacks on Polish farms began, and such name of the murderers remains etched in my memory to this day. The seizures were made late in the evening or at night. Those who did not leave home were mutilated or murdered. The attackers robbed cattle, horses, pigs, clothing, and anything of value. As time went on, these attacks grew in number and frequency.
To this day, I remember the nights spent or not slept in the constant fear for life in hideouts, in pits dug and hidden in the ground. The autumn–spring and rainy seasons were the worst. Then you sat in the mud and water.
This ordeal lasted until December 1946. Then the Bandera followers made the last attack on our village, which they burned down. Those who did not manage to escape were killed or injured. To this day, I remember the escape of the inhabitants from the burnt village, sometimes in their underwear and barefoot. I couldn't walk then because my legs were freezing, I was barefoot, I didn't have time to put my shoes on. We walked from Huta Brzuska through some burned villages towards the San River and the village of Babice. From there, someone took us by boat to the other side of the San River to the village of Babice […]
All these experiences became the cause of my various illnesses, the treatment of which lasted until 1953. However, I remained crippled and today I am on a disability pension”.
source: Koterbicki Jan, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 149—150
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:
unknown
ref. no:
11355
date:
1946.12
(mid of the month)
site
description
general info
Huta Brzuska
The UPA plundered and burned the village and murdered 21 Poles. 10 were injured.
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:
21
min. 21
max. 21
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