After the German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and the start of World War II, pursuant to the genocidal German–Russian agreement of 23.08.1939, known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, confirmed on 28.09.1939, by the so‐called „Treaty on the Borders and Friendship between Germany and Russia”, also known as the second Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, prob. ministered in the territory of their eparchy, which the two allies awarded to Russia. The Russian occupation began. As a first step, the Russian occupiers arrested Polish intelligentsia, teachers, doctors, landowners, government officials, foresters, policemen, and the families of Polish servicemen. In the years 1940‐1941, many Poles became victims of four large waves of deportations „to Siberia”. Accounts often mention that „they came at night, without warning, and took away entire families, from infants to the elderly”. „When we went out into the yard, they allowed my mother to look into the chest — unfortunately, it was empty, because our neighbors had already emptied it. We took practically nothing, because they did not allow us to move around the house […] There were large snowdrifts and heavy frost”. In addition, 150,000–200,000 men were conscripted into the Russian army, and c. 100,000 were forced to work for Russian industry, mainly in the mines of the Donets Basin, in heavy industry plants in the Urals and in Siberia. Then the surveillance of priests and monks began. The clergy were subjected to high taxes.

After the German attack on 22.06.1941 on its erstwhile ally, when the Germans pushed the Russians far to the east, and the German occupation also began in his parish, in c. 1943 was moved as an exposit/administrator to Lubliniec Stary, belonging to the parish of Lubliniec Nowy, on the other side of the small Wirowa River, in the San river basin, situated on the Tarnogród Plateau, on the edge of Eastern Roztocze, among the Roztocze forests, i.e. more or less in the middle of a forest belt c. 120 km long and c. 20 km wide, stretching from the Vistula in a south‐east direction to Lviv.

In 1939, Lubliniec Stary had an estimated population of c. 1,500 people, of whom Greek Catholic Ukrainians constituted c. 94%. Furthermore, there were c. 25 Roman Catholic Poles and c. 65 Jews. The neighboring Lubliniec Nowy was a slightly larger village, inhabited by c. 2,300 people, with a similar national and religious structure — there may have been c. 80 Poles and c. 40 Jews. From 09.1939, both villages were under German occupation and administratively found themselves in the Germ. Kreishauptmannschaft Zamość (Eng. Zamość County), within the Germ. Distrikt Lublin (Eng. District of Lublin), which was part of the German‐occupied and run quasi‐state called the Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), i.e. GG. The Germ. SS‐ und Polizeiführer (Eng. SS and Police Commander) in the Germ. Distrikt Lublin, and de facto deputy governor of this district, was one of the greatest criminals in human history, the Austrian, Odilo Lotario Globočnik, whom one historian described as „the most vile individual in the most vile organization that has ever existed”.

In the first years of the occupation, the Germans subjected Poles to particular repression. The details were specified — pursuant to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pacts — at four so‐called thematic conferences, when the Germ. Geheime Staatspolizei (Eng. Secret State Police), i.e. Gestapo, and the Rus. Народный Комиссариат Внутренних Дел (Eng. People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), i.e. NKVD, two genocidal allied organizations, debated cooperation and ways of combating and exterminating Poles in the territories they occupied. The first took place on 27.11.1939 in Brest‐on‐the‐Bug; the second immediately afterwards in Przemyśl. The third was held on 20.02.1940 in Zakopane, in the villas „Pan Tadeusz” (Eng. „Sir Thaddeus”) and „Telimena”, the fourth in 03.1940 in Kraków. In the meantime, at the beginning of 02.1940, in Hermann Göring's hunting lodge in Rominty in the Romincka Forest, a meeting of two génocidaires, Heinrich Himmler and Lavrentiy Beria, took place, where the decision to exterminate Polish society and combat the Polish resistance movement was probably finalized. As a consequence, in 04.1940, almost simultaneously, the genocidal murders of Polish prisoners of war began in Russia, which went down in history as the «Katyn genocide», and in the German‐occupied and run quasi‐state called the Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), i.e. GG, the Germ. Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion (Eng. Extraordinary Pacification Action) began, i.e. «Aktion AB», which was part of the so‐called Germ. «Intelligenzaktion» (Eng. Operation Intelligentsia), aimed at exterminating Polish political and intellectual elites. Repressions also continued in the later years of the occupation.

Ukrainians, on the other hand, were deliberately favored by the Germans. The Germans even allowed the establishment of a special „Konovalets Officers' School” in Krakow, whose „graduates” — under the watchful care of the Gestapo — acquired skills that proved indispensable in the later implementation of «Genocidium Atrox», i.e. the genocide of Poles. The Germans also allowed the open activity of such organizations as the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists OUN, the Ukrainian Central Committee UCC, which became the Ukrainian representation before the German authorities, as well as the creation in 1940 of the ukr. Служба Безпеки (Eng. Security Service), i.e. SB OUN, whose task was to track down political and ideological opponents of the OUN.

SB OUN training was conducted, among others, in Zakopane, at the „Stamary” hotel. According to the contemporary website of this hotel, „the training included the principles of sabotage, sabotage, Gestapo methods of interrogation and killing methods”.

When arrived at the new parish, there were no Jews in its territory, for at the turn of 1941/1942, the Germans began implementing the genocidal plan Germ. «Endlösung der Judenfrage» (Eng. Final Solution of the Jewish Question), i.e. physical extermination of the Jewish population. Jews from both Lubliniec villages were herded into a ghetto established in 12.1941 in Cieszanów, located c. 7 km to the south. There were no Jews from Cieszanów itself in the ghetto — in 1939, when Cieszanów de facto became a border town, they escaped under Russian occupation — but the Germans quickly filled the vacant buildings with Jews from the surrounding area. The first larger group of Jews known to have been placed there were 700‐817 Jews from Tomaszów Lubelski, brought on 25.02.1942. The next 465‐500 people were brought by the Germans from Mielec. The ghetto was not surrounded by a fence or wall, but from 15.10.1941, the German „law on the limitation of stay” in the GG, signed by the Germ. Generalgouverneur (Eng. Governor General) of the GG, Hans Frank, according to which „Jews who leave their designated district without authorization are subject to the death penalty. The same punishment applies to persons who knowingly provide hiding places for such Jews”, and „Instigators and accomplices are subject to the same punishment as the perpetrator; an attempted act will be punished as a completed act. In less serious cases, a heavy prison sentence or imprisonment may be imposed”. The Jews, crowded, i.a. in houses near the town square, were guarded by Ukrainians from the Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei (Eng. Ukrainian Auxiliary Police), established by the Germans at the end of 1939, and a unit of the Germ. Sonderdienst (Eng. Special Service), called „Hans Frank's private police”, i.e. an auxiliary police established by Frank and composed of Ukrainians. Soon after, in 03.1942, in Bełżec, c. 30 km to the east — on the site of the former Germ. Arbeitslager — the Germ. Vernichtungslager (Eng. extermination camp) VL Belzec, founded by the genocide killer Globočnik, began to „function”, formally referred to as Germ. SS‐Sonderkommando Belzec (Eng. SS Special Commando Belzec). The main „working” roles in VL Belzec were filled in by the Germ. SS‐Wachmannschaften (Eng. SS guards), consisting of former Russian prisoners of war who had defected to Germany, mostly of Ukrainian nationality. In 05.1942 (or in mid‐06.1942), therefore, Jews from Cieszanów — prob. together with the Jews from Tomaszów Lubelski, who were deported on 22.05.1942 — were transported to VL Belzec. And there all were murdered.

Although there were prob. no Jews in Lubliniec Stary, when arrived there, but there were Poles and they became the next victim of the German order. In 11.1942, the German SS‐ und Polizeiführer Odilo Globočnik shifted his main interest to the Germ. Aktion Zamość (Eng. Operation Zamość), i.e. a series of displacement and pacification operations of Polish villages in the Zamość region, in the Germ. Distrikt Lublin, as part of the Germ. Generalplan Ost (Eng. General Plan East), i.e. the German settlement and Germanization program, in order to gain Germ. Lebensraum (Eng. living space) for the Germ. Herrenvolk (Eng. master race). The intention was to displace hundreds of thousands of Poles and bring in German colonists in their place. In total, the Germans managed, with the help of Ukrainian collaborators, to displace 100,000‐110,000 Poles, including 30,000 children, some of whom — considered the most racially „pure” — were taken from their parents and given to families deep inside Germany.

But not everything went according to the Germans" plans. The first stage of the Germ. Aktion Zamość began on 28.11.1942, and encompassed 116 Polish villages, of which c.21% of the displaced were designated for extermination and sent to concentration camps. This stage ended on 03.03.1943. However, it was met with an armed reaction from Polish partisan forces — units of the Home Army AK, the Peasant Battalions BCh (part of the Polish Clandestine State), and the Commie‐Nazi People's Guard GL. In 12.1942, the Zamość Uprising began, in which Polish partisans responded to the expulsions by attacking villages of German and Ukrainian colonists. It was then only in 06.1943, when the VL Belzec extermination camp ceased its „operations”, that the Germans began the second phase of the Germ. Aktion Zamość, codenamed Germ. Aktion Werwolf (Eng. Operation Werewolf). It was intended to lead not only to the displacement of all Poles, but also to the Ukrainian colonization of the „cleansed area” and the creation of a protection zone, a barrier of villages in which a German‐friendly Ukrainian community was to be settled. This part of the operation was carried out under the codename Germ. „Ukraineraktion” (Eng. Operation Ukraine).

His parish village did not suffer during the Germ. Aktion Zamość, for obvious reasons — it was, after all, a Ukrainian village — but it was actually considered by the Germans as part of the „protection zone” for German colonization, as part of the Germ. „Ukraineraktion”.

At the same time, the Germans began large‐scale deportations of able‐bodied men and boys — often detained in so‐called roundups — to forced labor deep into Germany. This took place in Germ. Distrikt Lublin, i.a. in the summer of 1943.

The result of these actions was an increase in the numbers and activity of Polish partisans, mainly belonging to the Polish Clandestine State, but also of the National Armed Forces NSZ, which recognized the authority of the Polish government operating in London but did not recognize the structures of the Polish Clandestine State. At the same time, the NSZ considered both Germany and Russia to be enemies, while the London government considered Russia an „ally of our allies”.

At the same time, to the east of the Germ, Distrikt Lublin, in Volyn, in 02.1943 Roman Shukhevych, nom de guerre „Taras Chuprynka”, the chief commander of the Ukrainian, genocidal OUN/UPA organisation, who in 1941 was a member of the Ukrainian Germ. Sondergruppe Nachtigall (Eng. Special Group Nightingale) — a unit of the Germ. Wehrmacht (Eng. Armed Forces) that took part in the German attack on Russians in 1941, accused of participating in the Jewish pogrom in Lviv in 1941 — and later a member of the Germ. Schutzmannschaftsbataillon 201 (Eng. 201st Protection team Battalion) — responsible for the murder of Jews and civilians in the territory of Belarus — issued an order: „The extermination operation should be carried out according to the following principles: Polish villages are to be burned, and their populations massacred. Attacks on towns will take place in broad daylight, not at night. In mixed villages, the Polish population alone should be liquidated, and farmsteads should be burned only if they are 15 meters away and when there is no risk of the fire spreading to neighboring Ukrainian buildings. The Ukrainian population will receive instructions as to where to gather during the attack […] For every Ukrainian murdered, whether by Poles or Germans, 100 (one hundred) Poles will be executed”.

It was the de facto signal for the commencement of the «Genocidium Atrox» — i.e. the genocide perpetrated by Ukrainians, known as „Volyn genocide”.

Immediately thereafter, in 03.1943, the UPA issued an appeal to members of the Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei to desert and join the UPA ranks. Perhaps as many as 10,000 Ukrainians did so.

Volyn was drenched in Polish blood. Tens of thousands of Poles were murdered by the Ukrainians — with German passivity — in an extremely barbaric manner. Hundreds of villages were burned.

In 1943, Volyn was not in the GG, but belonged to the Germ. Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Eng.Reich Commissariat Ukraine), an occupational body established by the Germans after the German attack on the Russians on 22.06.1941. The choice of Volyn for the beginning of the «Genocidium Atrox» and the genocide of Poles by the OUN/UPA was not accidental. Firstly, Volyn in pre‐war Poland had prob. the smallest percentage of the Polish population in the entire country. Secondly, it was prob. the least economically developed voivodeship of Poland, which resulted from the deliberate policy of the Russians, who occupied that part of Poland in the 19th century — the direct route to the heart of Russia, to Moscow, runs through Volyn, so no roads were laid there, no bridges built, no marshy areas around the Pripyat drained, no industry located, and no schools established. Thirdly, and finally, it was Volyn (and the Chełm region) that was incorporated during World War I into the borders of the short‐lived Ukrainian state by the Central Powers (German Empire, Austro–Hungarian Monarchy), which was to be established on the basis of the Treaty of Brest‐Litovsk of 09.02.1918 — in 1943, the Germans simply fulfilled the obligations undertaken at that time.

When at the turn of 1943/1944 it became clear that Germany was losing the war in the East — on 24.12.1943, a large Russian offensive called the Dnieper–Carpathian Operation began, which in 04.1944 reached a line about 80 km east of Lviv — the OUN/UPA decided to extend the «Genocidium Atrox» to the Germ. Distrikt Galizien (Eng. District of Galicia) and Germ. Distrikt Lublin. Until then, the groups active there were mainly operating — in order not to „annoy” the Germans — under the euphemistic Ukrainian name Ukr. Українська Народна Самооборона (Eng. Ukrainian National Self‐Defense), i.e. UNS, and later also Ukr. Самооборонні кущові відділи (Eng. Self‐Defense Unit), i.e. SKW, reinforced with deserters from the Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei and Schuma, seasoned in the genocide of Jews. The Ukrainian génocidaires then formed, among others, the OUN/UPA operational group „UPA‐West”, under the command of Vasyl Sydor, nom de guerre „Shelest”, who ordered „to strike Poles continuously until they are destroyed to the last one from these lands”. The OUN/UPA Military District WO‐6 „San” was responsible for carrying out the «Genocidium Atrox» in the vicinity of Lubliniec Stary, from 1945 commanded by Miroslav Onyshkevych, nom de guerre „Orest”.

The genocidal OUN/UPA began to penetrate the Germ. Distrikt Lublin in early 1944. The murders of the Polish population began, following the Volyn pattern. And so the genocidal „Orest” became famous for his order issued on 06.04.1944, in which specified the tasks of the UPA units subordinate to him: „I order the immediate purging of my region of the Polish element […] The purging should be carried out in the villages sparsely populated by Poles. For this purpose, a militia should be created in the region, composed of our members, whose task would be to eliminate the above‐mentioned. Larger villages will be cleared of this element by our military units even in broad daylight […] The clearing of the area must be completed before our Easter, so that we can celebrate it without Poles […] Wage a hard, ruthless fight against them. Spare no one, even in the case of mixed marriages. Pull the Poles out of their homes, but do not eliminate the Ukrainians and children in these houses […] Take out your weapons. Death to the Poles”.

In the vicinity of Lubliniec Stary and Cieszanów, this order was carried out by the UPA kuren/unit Ukr. „Ме́сники” (Eng. „Avengers”), belonging to the so‐called „Bastion” Tactical Sector, which was part of the aforementioned OUN/UPA Military District WO‐6 „San”. Its commander was the génocidaire Ivan Szpontak, nom de guerre „Zalizniak”, and his deputy, Ivan Szymański, nom de guerre Pl. „Szum” (Eng. „Noise”), from Lubliniec Nowy — both had gained experience in the collaborationist Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei. It seems that Lubliniec Stary and Lubliniec Nowy were places of concentration and support for some of the sotnias of this kuren. And this kuren was prob. responsible — or local members of the SKW „self‐defense”, as some Polish sources seem to suggest — for the murder of only a few Polish inhabitants of his Lubliniec Stary. On 02.05.1944, according to Polish sources, they murdered „in a brutal manner on the road three Polish escaping families, numbering 18 people, and robbed their belongings, carts and horses”. The next day, the kuren attacked Cieszanów, murdering 50 local Poles and burning the town.

The «Genocidium Atrox» reached his parish. And this was not accidental either — the area between the so‐called Curzon–Namier line and the San, i.e. between the Bug and San rivers, was referred to by Ukrainians as „Zakerzonia”, and the OUN/UPA considered it the western part of the future Ukrainian state. The Curzon–Namier Line was a demarcation line between Poland and the Russian Bolsheviks, proposed to the Russians on 11.07.1920, by the British Foreign Minister, George Curzon, during the great Russian offensive during the Polish–Russian War of 1919‐1921, suggested by the so‐called expert, Lewis Bernstein Namier, a Jew of Polish origin. Russia — contrary to the plans of the British imperialists — suffered defeat in 1920, but the concept of the Curzon–Namier Line, running through the center of Poland, became a cause célèbre for all imperial concepts of dividing Central Europe, especially the Russian and German ones.

It turned out, however, that despite the fact that due to the situation on the German–Russian front, the Germans in many places of the Germ. Distrikt Lublin left the internal control over the occupied territories almost exclusively to collaborationist formations — such as the Germ. Gendarmerie (Eng. Gendarmerie), Schuma, the Germ. Galizisches SS Freiwilligen Regiment 5 – Polizei (Eng. 5th Galician Volunteer Regiment of SS – police), i.e. SS‐GFR5P, units of the genocidal Germ. Die Schutzstaffel der NSDAP (Eng. NSDAP Protection Squad), i.e. «SS», a paramilitary formation subordinate to the ruling National Socialist German Workers' Party NSDAP in Germany, consisting largely of Ukrainians — retaining only general supervisory functions, the genocidal actions of OUN/UPA, supported by the UNS units, which were de facto branches of the OUN/UPA, met with resistance from Polish partisan units of the AK and BCh, as well as partisans of the NSZ. A guerrilla war began, in which the Ukrainian génocidaires initially enjoyed at least tactical support from the German occupier. In some cases, the Polish partisans — many of whom were traumatized refugees from Volyn, where they had lost entire families murdered by the OUN/UPA — responded with attacks on Ukrainian villages, particularly those favorable to the OUN/UPA.

The situation changed with the German defeat and in 07.1944 the start of — as a result of the so‐called Lviv–Sandomierz operation and the Russian offensive reaching the Vistula line — the Russian occupation. The OUN/UPA, of course, did not change its plans to exterminate the Polish population, but it no longer had German support, and Russian troops were stationed in the area, preparing for a further offensive towards Germany. For some time, the OUN/UPA lay low and stopped attacking Polish villages. At the same time, there were signs of active Russian combat against the OUN/UPA, although the Russian occupier allocated incomparably greater forces to combating Polish units of the Polish Clandestine State, the National Military Union NZW and the National Military Organization NOW.

The Russians began combating the OUN/UPA in his region with deportations. It was not yet known then that already on 28.11‐01.12.1943, at the conference in Tehran, the treacherous English and Americans agreed to establish the post‐war Polish border on the aforementioned Curzon–Namier line, which meant de facto recognition of the legitimacy of the Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and recognition of Russian claims expressed in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. This also meant that after the end of the war, Lubliniec Stary was to be located in the area assigned to the Polish Commie‐Nazi Russian agents, in the Russian Polish Republic called „prl”. Therefore, one of the first effects of the beginning of the Russian occupation were massive deportations of the population, in line with the standard, centuries‐old, criminal Russian practice of solving social and national problems. Millions of Poles were to be deported from the east and resettled west, to the territories that before World War II belonged to to Germany; Ukrainians were resettled from the „prl”, to the territory directly occupied by the Russians. The deportations of Ukrainians took place in four stages. In the first, „voluntary”, from 15.10‐31.12.1944, c. 20,000 Ukrainians were forced to leave, mainly from the Polish Lublin Voivodeship.

It is unclear whether it was then, or perhaps during the second stage of deportation, from 01.01‐01.08.1945, also „voluntary”, that some of the inhabitants of Lubliniec Stary and Lubliniec Nowy, along with their parish priest, left, deciding to go to the territory directly occupied by the Russians. He remained with those who decided not to leave their hometowns, despite the fact that the uniformed services of the Commie‐Nazi „prl” — officers of the Citizens' Militia MO and the criminal Security Service UB, soldiers of the military units of the Polish Army — began agitation and persecution against the resisting Ukrainians. It is known i.a. about Greek Catholic priests being visited in the evenings and at night, interrogated at militia's HQs, harassed, accused of collaborating with the genocidal OUN/UPA — often prob. justifiably — and attempts to force declarations of departure and to start agitation for the departure of the faithful.

There are reports, prob. of Ukrainian origin, that due to „the threat from the Polish underground, he often spent the nights outside the rectory in the homes of villagers”. The „Polish underground” was undergoing a period of change at that time, as on 19.01.1945, the Polish government in exile in London dissolved the largest clandestine resistance organization in German–occupied Europe, the Home Army AK (part of the Polish Clandestine State). At the same time, genocidal Russian organizations, such as the NKVD and the Russian‐controlled Commie‐Nazi UB, did not cease pursuing members of the AK and other clandestine organizations. Many were forced to choose the path of continued armed partisan resistance. From then on, these units, faithful to their oath to the Republic of Poland, today referred to as „cursed soldiers”, fought not only against the Russian occupier, but also against the Ukrainian génocidaires from the OUN/UPA.

For his Lubliniec Stary and neighboring Lubliniec Nowy, however, the armed units of the Commie‐Nazi „prl” proved to be a much more dangerous threat. On 21.03.1945 the 2nd Independent Operational Battalion of the Commie‐Nazi Internal Troops, collaborating with — or perhaps rather controlled by — the units of the Russian genocidal NKVD, prob. attempting to force the „voluntary deportation” of Ukrainians from both Lubliniec villages, murdered c. 59‐66 Ukrainians who resisted deportations from „prl”.

Managed to survive the murder — in hiding, in the rectory.

The same unit of the Commie‐Nazi Internal Troops, two weeks later, on 05.04.1945, attacked the village of Gorajec, c. 10 km away, murdering c. 174 people, including „32 women, 35 children and 19 people over 60 years of age”. The OUN/UPA responded with an attack on 17.04.1945, by the kuren of génocidaire Ivan Shpontak, nom de guerre „Zalizniak”, on the village of Wiązownica, c. 35 km to the southwest. C. 91‐130 village inhabitants were murdered, over 100 farms were burned down, which constituted almost half of the houses in the village. In retaliation, the very next day a unit of the Polish National Military Union NZW — established after the dissolution of the AK, formed by former soldiers of the AK and the National Military Organization NOW, pursued by the Russian occupiers, whose goals included, among others, „liberating Poland from Soviet occupation and influence”, and declaring that „We will not give up the fight for Greater Poland under the influence of the terror of Soviet Russia and its agents” — under the command of Joseph Zadzierski, nom de guerre Pl. „Wołyniak” (Eng. „Volynman”) carried out the pacification of the Ukrainian village of Piskorowice, described as a „terrorist‐cleansing action”. C. 120‐173 people were murdered, including women and children.

Engaged then in establishing some kind of modus vivendi between the genocidal OUN/UPA and the Polish units of the „cursed soldiers”. In Polish sources, based mainly on the memories of Polish participants in those events, there is a short entry that in Lubliniec Stary „at the beginning of 1945, militants of the SB OUN shot the Uniate vicar, Father Anthony Ślusarczyk, for helping a Pole escape”. It seems that in the Przemyśl eparchy there was no Ślusarski priest named „Anthony” — there was one ministering in Lubliniec Stary, i.e. Adam. And he definitely did not die then, but the fact that Father „Anthony” „helped a Pole escape” was remembered by the Polish inhabitants of the area is significant.

It coincides with his decision to take the initiative for a tactical agreement between Ukrainians and Poles and to postpone the resolution of the mutual conflict until the future — in view of Russian repressions and murders, and the collaboration with the Russian occupiers of the Commie‐Nazi „prl” authorities. According to Polish sources, „the talks took place on May 21, 1945, in the village of Ruda Różaniecka. Catholic and Orthodox priests served as intermediaries. A local agreement was then concluded between [the post‐AK organization Freedom and Independence] WiN and the UPA. Both sides committed to cease attacks on civilians. The Zamość region was divided into the zones of influence of WiN and UPA. They also decided to cooperate in the fight against the [Commie‐Nazi] UB, NKVD, and KBW. In September 1945, this agreement was extended to the Chełm region and Podlasie”.

At the same time, on 01.09.1945, the third stage of the deportation of Ukrainians to the east began. During this period, over 80,000 people were forcibly relocated, and on 20.09.1945, the Commie‐Nazis arrested the ordinary of the Przemyśl eparchy, Bishop Jozafat Kocyłowski, who had refused to issue a proclamation calling on the faithful and clergy to emigrate to Ukraine.

By then, was prob. already the chaplain of the genocidal OUN/UPA, nom de guerre „Roman” and Ukr. „Kniha” (Eng. „Book”). Was in hiding — although may have started hiding later, in 1946, when the fourth stage of the forced deportations of Ukrainians beyond the borders of the „prl” began, lasting from 01.01.1946 to 15.06.1946. Commie‐Nazis deported over 250,000 people at that time.

The OUN/UPA conducted attacks mainly on the centers of Commie‐Nazi power in the „prl”. They were carried out by forest units operating i.a. from hideouts in the Roztocze forests between Lubaczów / Cieszanów, and Rava‐Ruska. From there, most of the population was expelled much earlier, in 1939‐1941, by the Russians, who were then constructing — along the border with the German–occupied areas — the so‐called „Molotov Line”, i.e. a series of defensive forts and trenches, in that area known as the 6th Rava‐Ruska Fortified Area. Part of this „line” was a strip c. 800meters wide, from which people were expelled along its entire length.

From 10.1946, hid in a bunker near Monasterz, a deserted village near Werchrata, in the middle of forests, known for the fact that in 1891 friar Brother Albert Chmielowski founded there, next to the ruins of a Basilian monastery, the first hermitage for Albertine monks in Roztocze, which survived until 1905. The bunker housed the so‐called National Technical Center of the OUN „Wulkan”, i.e. a disguised publishing and propaganda cell at the Ukr. „Крайовий Провід” (Eng. National Leadership) of the OUN in „Zakerzonia”.

Translated OUN/UPA leaflets and publications, next distributed to Western embassies in Poland, into English and French.

According to Ukrainian sources, is credited with „the first instructions issued by the Ukrainian underground in Poland, prohibiting offensive actions against Poles, especially the Polish population”.

The situation of the genocidal OUN/UPA units became critical after the launch of the last, large–scale deportation of Ukrainians — this time not to areas directly occupied by the Russians, but to the west and north of the „prl”, i.e. the lands that were part of Germany until 1939 — known as „Operation Vistula”. The OUN/UPA lost the support of Ukrainian villages in the region.

Perished in the bunker where was hiding — surrounded by troops of the murderous, Russian‐controlled, Commie‐Nazi Internal Security Corps KBW, successor to the aforementioned Internal Troops, and the criminal Security Services UB, a unit of the criminal Russian MVD — while attempting to escape, reportedly with a gun in his hand.

His body was taken to an unknown location.

A day later, in the same area, the head of the Ukr. „Крайовий Провід” of the OUN in „Zakerzonia”, Yaroslav Staruch, nom de guerre „Stiah”, was killed.

The fate of Polish supporters of Polish‐Ukrainian understanding was not significantly better. Marian Gołębiewski, a „silent and unseen” parachutist of the Polish Army in the West, commander of the Hrubieszów District of AK, later a member of WiN, one of the initiators of the agreement in Ruda Różaniecka between the OUN/UPA and WiN, was arrested by the Commie‐Nazi UB on 21.01.1946. Beaten, tortured, sentenced to death — the „punishment” was commuted to life imprisonment — spent ten years in „prl” prisons.