Enemy Archives by Viatrovych Volodymyr;Luciuk Lubomyr;Olynyk Marta Daria;

Author:Viatrovych, Volodymyr;Luciuk, Lubomyr;Olynyk, Marta Daria;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

DOCUMENT 91: REPORT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE VILLAGE OF ZAVADKA MORAKHIVSKA BY THE POLISH ARMY

30 January 1946

Report on a battle and the mass murder of the Ukrainian population in the village of Zavadka Morakhivska, Sianik18 County

On 23 January 1946 at 8:00 in the morning the Polish army arrived in the village of Morokhiv, utterly looted the population, and also beat it severely, without regard for women and children. Not a single house escaped looting.

The majority of the bandits removed people’s footwear, tore concealed items from women’s bodices, removed rings from women’s fingers, all the while beating them mercilessly with rubber truncheons. The bandits shot and wounded the farmer Ostrovsky, Ivan, [and] beat a ten-year-old boy senseless. They wanted to throw a live grenade at the priest; however, the attempt to throw the grenade was spotted by the priest’s daughter.

After looting the village of Morokhiv, the bandits moved to the village of Mokre. They surrounded it, and the same story began here too.

As reported by intelligence, there were around 120 bandits. An announcement was immediately sent to Commander Kh, who was then billeted near Z.M. [Zavadka Morakhivska], to come and punish the bandits.

After firing three projectiles from a mortar at the forest, the bandits began to head toward the village of Z.M. En route they shot Comrade D, the kushch leader responsible for supplies and materiel, who had exited the forest at that time. They broke the fallen man’s arms and legs, and beat him to the point of unrecognizability. They took the weapons and removed the boots.

At that time two platoons arrived with Commander Kh. One platoon of the unit was tasked with going behind the enemy from the forest, the other was to attack from the opposite end of the village. The enemy centre was to be attacked by a fighting group that took part in the action together with the unit.

By forced march the fighting group drew near and forced its way into the centre of the village, where it caught the enemy, which, having completed its collection, was beginning to leave the village. After a half-hour battle the enemy was expelled from the village. The Poles, behind whom was a steep ravine, put up resistance and defended themselves vigorously. After a battle lasting an hour and a half, the enemy was pushed out of its position and forced to flee in panic. Riflemen and fighters pursued the enemy all the way to the village of Nebeshchany, from which the Polish civilian population began to flee upon hearing the fierce battle. The retreat route was heavily spattered with blood, but the enemy, which had good terrain for retreating, took all the wounded and killed with them. On the battlefield the enemy left behind: 2 company mortars and 56 projectiles, 2 wagons with ammunition and military equipment, 2 pairs of horses, cows, and many looted items. Also found were two iron-tipped, rubber truncheons, with which the Ukrainian population was beaten. The looted articles have now been returned to the population.

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