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
Ożanna
Łańcut pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Leżajsk cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
6
max.:
6
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12214
date:
1944–1947
site
description
general info
Ożanna
Fragment of the report of the interrogation of Jan Toth 'Mewa' by the investigating officer of WUBP in Rzeszów about the murder of 3 Ukrainians by the NZW unit under his command:
„The second time it was in Ożanna, Łańcut poviat. We were shot [there] by the Ukrainians, opened fire after them and killed 3 Ukrainians”.
source: „Report from the questioning of Jan Toth”, 26 VII 1947 r; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 107/703, vol. I, sh. 24
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
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
12215
date:
1945.05
site
description
general info
Ożanna
Excerpt from the report „Wisti z terenu” from District II of the Zakerzonya Region for May 1 — June 5, 1945:
„[] May [1945] in the village of Ożanna, Poles killed three men and one woman:
Berezka Ołeksij, aged 45;
Berezka Iwan, aged 18;
Kawa Prokop, aged 30;
Kril Kateryna, aged 30.
The perpetrators of this shameful crime were the Poles: Harnecki Julian, Szwed Piotr, Dziwota Michał […] ”
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
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EXPLANATIONs
- Lack of info about the perpetrators in the description of a given event (Incident) indicates that the blame should be attributed to the perpetrators listed in general info section.
- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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