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
Chodanie
Jarosław pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Jarosław cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
general info
hamlet
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
9
max.:
10
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12317
date:
1945.04.27
alternatively:
03/04.05.1945
site
description
general info
Chodanie
Excerpt from the list of victims made by the OUN clerk, including information about 11 Ukrainians murdered by members of MO in Zapałów:
„The first attack of a Polish gang on the hamlet of Chodanie under the command of Ryzner Karol from the village of Piwoda and a gang of 'Wołyniak' in the amount of 60 people. As a result of the robbery, 7 people who did not escape died:
1. Maczuha Dmytro — Ukrainian, 65 years old, shot in the head;
2. Maczuha Anna — daughter, Ukrainian, 23 years old, shot in the head;
3. Maczuha Marija — 21, shot in the head;
4. Proć Anna — Ukrainian, 18 years old, wounded in the left arm and left side, shot to the head;
5. Sapelak Ahafija — Ukrainian, 57 years old, shot in the head;
6. Olchowa Marija — Ukrainian, 47 years old, eyes gouged out, shot in the chest;
7. Rapita Mychajło — Ukrainian, 65 years old, shot in the head;
8. Sapelak Emilija — Ukrainian, 19 years old, wounded in the right hand, eye [unread.]”.
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 19, sh. 63, in: transl. B. Huk
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]
Excerpt from Anna Orzechowska's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Ryszkowa Wola by gangs from Polish villages:
„To start with, it seems to me that on May 3 or 4 [1945], on Friday, we drove the cattle to the pasture for the first time. I was 10 then. About noon from the hamlet of Wilchów, i.e. from Jarosław, two men come to us very quickly. One was in a railwayman's uniform, the other in a military–like uniform. As soon as I saw them with my sister Ola, they immediately started shouting:
— «Father, people, run away, because the Poles are going to murder us!».
Everyone, even my little children, knew that Polish gangs were murdering Ukrainians […] The first victim of a bandit attack was Vasyl Rapita (known as 'Rapitka' in the village). He was 70 years old then somewhere. He didn't want to run anywhere, saying that she had blamed nothing on anyone for him to be killed, let alone being so old. The poor man did not understand that in order to be murdered, it was enough to be a Ukrainian. They shot him in a pasture near the forest where he was grazing cows. My almost 50‑year‑old aunt Ahafija Sapelak (the mother of the bishop of UHKC in Argentina, Andrij Sapelak and priest Vasyl Sapelak), was killed by the bandits in the garden near her barn. Marija Olchowa, 50 years old, was killed in her yard when she was selecting potatoes for planting. Anna Proć ('Petrania'), 17‑year‑old and 17‑year‑old Marijka Maczuha ('Andrejowa') were caught by the attackers on a footbridge as she ran away into the field […] After being caught, they brought them to the meadow near Anna Proć's house and shot them there, then dragged them away. the girls' shoes and they took away. And while the torturers had not yet killed them, Anna Proć pleaded with Jan Duda:
— «Johnny, give us life, such a beautiful world, we are eating young, we want to live, we are innocent, we went to one school together in Jarosław, we do not harm you. we did».
These requests did not help […]
Dmytro Maczuha ('Andrejowy'), some 60 years old, and his older, 20‑year‑old daughter Anna […] were shot by the bandits in their yard”.
source: „Spohad Anny Orzechowśkoji (diwocze prizwyszcze Chodań) narodżenoji w Ryszkowij Woli Jarosławśkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 479—481
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:
7—8
min. 7
max. 8
ref. no:
12318
date:
1945.04.29
alternatively:
06/07.05.1945
site
description
general info
Chodanie
Excerpt from the list of victims made by the OUN clerk, including information about 11 Ukrainians murdered by members of MO in Zapałów:
„The second attack by the same gang took place on April 29, 1945 [unread], two men were killed:
1. Rapita Petro — Ukrainian, 35, pierced in the chest with a bayonet, killed a shot to the chest;
2. Rapita Mykhailo — Ukrainian, 18 years old, wounded in the right side, shot in the head, [unread.]”.
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 19, sh. 63, in: transl. B. Huk
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]
Excerpt from Anna Orzechowska's memoirs about the murders of Ukrainians in Ryszkowa Wola by gangs from Polish villages:
„After two days [from the first] the bandit attack on Chodan was repeated. This time at night. They murdered 35‑year‑old Petr Rapita ('Rapitka'), son of Vasyl Rapita. The bandits stabbed him with a bayonet in Wowek's yard; 18‑year‑old Mykhailo Rapita ('Cetulak') was murdered in the garden of Vasyl Chodania ('Czepilinki'). 50 years have passed since then, but our pain does not recede…”.
source: „Spohad Anny Orzechowśkoji (diwocze prizwyszcze Chodań) narodżenoji w Ryszkowij Woli Jarosławśkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 479—481
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
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