Historical Calendar: December 30, 1945 – UPA attack on Nowosielce

Historical calendar – the anniversary of the attack by Nazi UPA militias on Polish villages Długie and Nowosielce close Sanoka.

Today, in our calendar, we will look at 1 of the UPA crimes on the undercarcinated.

In the fall of 1943, an effort was made to improvement UPA structures. 3 regional groups were formed: UPA-North, UPA-West, and UPA South, and in July 1944 the full army was subjugated to the Ukrainian Chief Liberation Council (UHWR), which was set up by Stepan Bandera as a Ukrainian nationalist government.

It was not established erstwhile the decision to start the liquidation of the Polish population was made. It is believed that it was at the turn of 1943 and 1944 that the CNS-B (a part of the Ukrainian Nationalist Organization created in 1929) decided to extend the mass genocide of the Polish population from Volyn to east Małopolska, which was to guarantee cultural unity of the future Ukrainian state.

The command of the UPA Command of May 5, 1944 recommended the removal of Poles from their lands to indigenous Polish lands, giving them only a fewer days to execute the command. In case of any opposition or delay, militants were sent to kill men, women and children, their homes to smoke or strip. In command of commanders and referees Self-defence Kuszcze Widdiłów of February 1944, it was clearly stated:

To destruct traces of Polishness: to destruct all walls of churches and another Polish prayer buildings, to destruct orchards so that there are no traces that individual may have lived there once; until 25 February 1944, to destruct all Polish houses where Poles lived (if Ukrainians live in these houses, houses should be undressed)...

In carrying out these assumptions, Ukrainian Nazis committed many crimes on the Polish population. Mordy, the burning of farms and houses of Nowosielec, Pielnia and Długi (in the territory of Sanock), described, among others, Fr W. Piętowski at work Polish-Ukrainian relations after the outbreak of planet War II. Overview. The same, on p. 285. stated:
... in Nowosielce (589 Roman-Catholic farms and 907 Greek-Catholic) on 30th December 1945 at 1st night respective UPA sotnias invaded. They mined a railway station, burned about 200 farms, murdered 16 Poles.

In turn, Sz. Ax. H. Komanski and K. Bulzacki Genocide by Ukrainian Nationalists in Poles in the Lviv state 1939-1947 on the crime in Nowosielce, we read:

The village had 243 residential buildings and 1,227 residents. Including 936 Poles. On the night of 29/30 December 1945 a robbery of respective UPAs was carried out in the village. Buildings of a railway station with equipment were destroyed and 200 residential buildings were burned with part of the farm buildings. 22 people were besides murdered ..., 8 unknown people were injured and burned.

In another papers (situation reports of the territory MO Command in Sanoku and the territory MO Command in Tarnobrzeg from 1946), it was revealed that: (...) At night 29 at 30 December 1945, at about 1 a.m., a group of banders in a force of about 500 attacked the village of Nowosielce and burned 200 houses. They besides blew up the railway station building in NowosielceGniewosz and killed 20 Poles, and injured several.

In turn, the Situation study for the period from 23 December 1945 to 3 January 1946 revealed that: At night 29 out of 30. On 12, 1945, a strong group of banders attacked the village of Nowosielce and killed 16 people, 2 wounded, 150 houses burned, the railway station mined, robbed clothing and cattle. They then retreated to the Bakery and Long Cluster. They burned 10 houses in the Hellhouse, in Long 4 buildings.

The IPN file contains a evidence of the interrogation of fishy Mikhail Dundy ps. “Jaliczka” of 2 June 1946, in which he explained that:
... “Chrina” and “Didyka” burned the Novosielec. Another suspect, Ivan Fedoro, admitted that 1 soot of "Didika" merged with Chrin's sotnia and carried out a robbery on Nowosielce (the above mentioned did not participate in the action, he said so himself).

Previous entry from our calendar is available Here.