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
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
2
max.:
2
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12491
date:
1947.01.04
site
description
general info
Wierzbiąż
January 4, 1947, [typescript] — Fragment of the report of interrogating a witness to the murder of Ukrainians in Wierbiąż, drawn up by a clerk 'Sycz' from the 'Liman' district in the third Zakerzonya Region:
„January 4, 1947 in the village of Wierbiąż and Leszków [… ] at about 11 o'clock the Polish Army in the strength of 50 people from the 8th regiment, approached the village from the side of Cebłów […] 3 cars drove into the village carrying Polish Army soldiers. At 12 they got on the cars, took the detainee with them and drove towards Leszczków. On the way between Wierbiąż and Leszczków, the cars stopped near the house, from where the inhabitants were deported to Bolshevik Russia. The captain ordered to check it and 22‑year‑old Myron Hryciw, a Ukrainian from Wierbiąż, was caught […] The captain ordered to beat him. Military bandits pounced on him and started beating with what they had and however they could. They gladly obeyed the order. They beat with rifle butts, poked with gun barrels, kicked with their feet. One Ukrainian–eater hit him so that the barrel pierced his face. The boy still didn't confess. The captain gave the lieutenant an order to shoot him […] The lieutenant stood 5 meters behind him, put the gun in his hand and shot him in the back. Myron fell dead. The lieutenant returned to the captain, who said
— «Give him more »
and he himself started shooting from the 'Sten' gun […] They left the corpse in the field, they went to Leszczków […]
At that time, Paweł Iwanyczuk was not at home and his son was chopping wood in the yard. They asked him:
— «Are there any banderites in the village»?
Bohdan replied that he was young, he wasn't going anywhere and he couldn't see anything. They started beating him hard. When he still didn't say anything, they said,
— «You can go home».
Bohdan took a few steps as some Polish bandit from the Polish Army shot from behind and wounded him in the back. Bohdan sped up, but the soldiers opened a strong fire, shortening the young boy's life”.
source: „Protokoł pro antyukrajinśki akciji Wijśka polśkoho w sełach Werbiż i Łeszkiw”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 1062—1064, 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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
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