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
Ścieżki Czerwonowolskie
Jarosław pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przeworsk cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
30
max.:
30
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12414
date:
1945.04.11
site
description
general info
Ścieżki Czerwonowolskie
Excerpt from Tetiana Lichowska's memoirs about the mass murder of Ukrainians in Ścieżki:
„Our village, Ścieżki, was small, had 32 numbers, people lived and worked peacefully until the war in 1939. The Russians came to us, and Russia was until 1941, and then until 1945, Germany. People's Poland took power in the same year. A Polish gang began to prowl our villages and the Ukrainians had to flee to the forest. One time, a great tragedy took place in our village: on April 11, 1945, a gang burst into the village and murdered over 30 people.
I describe what happened in our house, and it was the same in other houses. When they came, the sister and six small children with their mother were at home, the brother–in–law fled to the forest. I was at the neighbors of the Kwaśniowski family. As the children told, they started hitting their mother and sister with a rifle and then shot them. The children hid under the table, and their mother covered them with herself. Then they came to the Kwaśniowski family, where I was, 5 people in total. We were all led out of the house into the yard, put us face down on the ground and shot everyone. I was given two bullets that torn large holes in my back above my shoulder blade. Two of the Kwaśniowski's children and their parents were shot and the fifth, a girl, maybe 18 years old, severely wounded in the stomach, everything came out of her, and she soon died. They immediately set fire to the house, threw all the Kwaśniowski family into the fire and they burned in it. Me and the wounded girl were also dragged to the fire, but someone from the gang shouted:
— «Roll–call!».
They left us, someone said,
— «They will die anyway»”.
source: „Pereżyły własnu smert’”, Spohad Tetiany Lichowśkoji (diwocze prizwyszcze Kwaśniowska), narodżenoji w seli Steżky Jarosławśkoho powitu; in: „Our Word”, in: No. 31, 1996, p. 3, 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]
Excerpt from the protocol of interrogation of Józef Karakuła from Dobra on May 6, 1946 by an employee of the Security Service of the OUN about the murders of […] Ukrainians from Dobra by Poles from the village of Czerce:
„In 1945, during an action in the village of Ścieżki, he shot Wowczko Anastasia with a child on bed and set fire to the house”.
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, Cop. VII b (167), sh. 95
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 an interview with Yevhen Dyky, born on in 1925 in Leżachów […] :
„— «And Cidyły?»
— «They were burned, although not completely. It was Chodanie who was burned to the ground […] The Poles killed Radawiec, our village administrator. Probably already in Poland. They stabbed him with bayonets under the bed at home. He lived in Ścieżki. It is not known who did this».
— «Did anyone else die in Ścieżki?»
— «They killed 30 people there»”.
source: „Leżachów Czerce”, Rozmowa z Jewhenem Dykim ur. w 1925 w Leżachowie; in: Huk Bogdan, „Michał Borys «Żan»'s Young Ukrainians. Local Self-Defense Units in the Jarosław poviat in the years 1945—1947”, in: Przemyśl 2016, p. 427—429
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 Stefanija Kulka's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Ścieżki Czerwonowolskie by NZW units:
„The next [after Piskorowice] was the tragedy of the village of Ścieżki Czerczańskie, where on April 11, 1945 a gang murdered over 30 people, the village burnt down. Kateryna Biła, who survived the tragedy, told me about it and was shot in the throat. During Operation Vistula, when we were taken to the Western Territories, Bila and her young children were taken to the neighboring village of Czercze, among Poles, where she recognized the bandit who shot at her, but did not release him. On the other hand, the second woman who survived, Tetiana Lichowska, was injured and was lying among the bodies. Her murdered sister left 6 children who were looked after by Tetiana”.
source: „Spohad Stefaniji Kulky (diwocze prizwyszcze Kudłak) narodżeji w Dibczi Jarosławśkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 179, 181
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:
30
min. 30
max. 30
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