The massacre in Skopow ( Polish. Zbrodnia w Skopowie ) - the massacre of Ukrainian peasants from the village of Skopov (now - Poland , Subcarpathian Voivodeship ).
The massacre in Skopov occurred in March (usually given the date March 6) of 1945. A detachment of the “People’s Guard” ( Polish: Ludowa Straż biezpieczeństwa ) under the leadership of Roman Kissel, nicknamed “Semp”, attacked the village. During the attack, several dozens of peasants were killed (the numbers vary greatly - from 67 to 150 and more), including the Russophile priest John Demyanchyk. His son Yuri Demjanchik described this crime in his work The Bloody Crime of the Polish Gang. The remaining Ukrainian residents of Skopov were evicted in the USSR. After the war, a memorial was put in Skopov in memory of the massacre.
Literature
- Jan Pisuliński - "Konflikt polsko-ukrainski w powiecie przemyskim zimą i wiosną 1945 roku i udział w nim grupy Romana Kisiela Sępa", Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość nr 2 (2005)