Emelyan Petrovich Hrabets ( Ukrainian: Omelyan Hrabets ) - leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement during the Second World War, commandant of the Ukrainian auxiliary police in the city of Rivne , UPA colonel, head of the UPA-South military district.
| Emelyan "Old Man" Hrabets | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian Omelyan Hrabec | ||
 Members of the Ukrainian auxiliary police, commandant Emelyan Hrabets in the center | ||
| Nickname | "Father", "Vovk" | |
| Date of Birth | August 1, 1911 | |
| Place of Birth | New Village, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary | |
| Date of death | June 10, 1944 (32 years old) | |
| A place of death | ||
| Affiliation |  OUN-UPA | |
| Type of army | Guerrilla army | |
| Rank | Colonel (UPA) | |
| Commanded | UPA South | |
| Battles / wars | The Second World War The rebel movement in Western Ukraine | |
| Awards and prizes | ||
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 memory
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Biography
Born in the New Village on the Commune of Chesaniv (now the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in Poland ), in the family of a rural clerk. As a member of Plast in Prague and Galicia , Emelyan Hrabets joins the Ukrainian Military Organization , eventually becoming a member of the OUN . Studying for some time in the Czech capital, Prague, at the Polytechnic. He studied at Peremyshlsky Ukrainian male gymnasium. The robber was among those who, after the attempt on the Polish Minister of the Interior, Bronislaw Peratsky, helped hide his executor, Grigory Matseyko. He himself tried to hide in the territory of Czechoslovakia, but this did not pass without a trace for the Homback himself. Czech intelligence services began to help the Polish government. The consequence of this decision was the transfer to Poland of the underground archive opened by the police, the so-called "Senik archive", and the transfer of the detained Ukrainians to the Polish police. Among them was the Hrabets.
In 1935-1936 he was a prisoner of the Polish camp Birch Kartuzskaya [1] . In 1938-1939 he organized demonstrations against Polish politics towards the Ukrainian population. In early 1939, he was arrested by the Polish police in Lviv. In September of the same year, after the partition of Poland, he was released. Immediately after his release, taking advantage of his stay in Lviv, he organized the guard of the Cathedral of St. Jura with the participation of underground members of the OUN. In October 1939, he moved to the territory of the Governor General and returned to his native village, where Emelian led the youth section in the local branch of the so-called. Ukrainian committee. The robber was one of the couriers and armed nationalist groups responsible for moving across the German-Soviet border. In two years, he and his staff managed to transport up to 5,000 people on both sides of the border.
With the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Grabets was part of the OUN Marching Groups - a participant in the hostilities in Ukraine against partisans . In 1941, the commandant of the Ukrainian police created in Nazi control in Rivne . In many places, the Ukrainian police created such units as the Ukrainian Security Service, the Ukrainian Gestapo, and many others. [2] The robber is a direct participant in the massacre of about 30 thousand Jews in Rivne and the surrounding area, participated in all stages of the extermination of Jews: pogroms , organizing ghettos , robberies, violence, using slave labor, organizing hunger , beating and mass destruction . [3] [4]
In 1941-1942 - conductor of the Rivne region . In the spring of 1943, he deserted from the police, joining the UPA. From the summer of 1943 and until his death - UPA-South commander, the group operated in the Vinnitsa and Khmelnitsky regions of Ukraine. He organized a raid on a prisoner of war camp in Litin, many who were liberated joined the ranks of the UPA [5] . In November 1943, he organized a raid into the Romanian occupied Moldova.
In 1944 he died in battle with a detachment of the NKVD near the village of Mikulintsy in the Vinnitsa region. The burial place has not been established [6] .
Memory
- In 2010, a memorial plaque was installed in Mikulintsy
- Since 2015, his name has been in the street in Vinnitsa
Notes
- ↑ Roman Marіychak: The strength of the Ukrainian people is in the hands of those who approve the approval of the national movement, national cultural history (inaccessible link)
- ↑ I BA. R 58/216. Bl. 75–78. Script. Translation from German. Publ.: Ukraine in Other Documents. 1941-1945. T. I. Lviv, 1997. S. 251–252; Publ.: OUN at 1941 Rotsі. Documents Kiev, 2006. S. 446–448.
- ↑ Dereyko I. І. Місцеві formuannya nіmetsky army and police at the Reichskomіsarіatі "Ukraine" (1941-1944 rocky) / Science. ed. O. G. Bazhan. NAS of Ukraine. Institute of History of Ukraine. - K .: Institute of History of Ukraine, 2012. - 174 p. ISBN 978-966-02-6312-3 .
- ↑ http://alldokument.com/ukrainian-nationalist-organizations-in-the-second-world-war-3a4de83b8c7caa119370c4aaae494ffb5382.html
- ↑ Grabets Omelyan Petrovich // Encyclopedia of Such Ukraine
- ↑ Vіdkrittya memorial plate in the middle of the bend of Omelyan Grabtsya (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment July 10, 2016. Archived August 21, 2016.
Literature
- Commander of the UPA-Pivden group, Colonel "Father": Omelyan Hrabets at the hilt of battle friends and homeland / order. G. Grabets; ed. Yu. Sudin. - Colomia: Vіk, 2001 .-- 214 p. - ISBN 966-550-153-4 .
- Mirchuk P. Ukrainian Insurgent Army, 1942-1952. - Lviv , 1991.
- Ukrainian insurgent army: Zbіrka dokumentіv for the years 1942-1950 - Part 1. - B / m, 1957.
- Ukrainian Insurgent Army in fighting documents for the Ukrainian Independent Sobornaya Power 1942-1950 pp .: Boyov dії UPA for 1943-1950 pp. - Part 2. - London, 1960.