in Kniahininek district the Ukrainians murdered 2 Polish women: Klukowa and her farm were burnt down, and the Polish wife was murdered by her Ukrainian husband (Janina née Galewska).

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The UPA murdered a Polish blacksmith's family of four and burnt the bodies with the house. „Me Jeżyński Konstanty, s/o Józef and Agata nee Urbaniak, partisan of the 27th Volhynian Division of the Home Army, pseud. Grom, born on December 10, 1922 in the village of Marjanówka near Zdołbunów, Lutsk voivodeship in Wołyń. Then, in 1928, my parents moved to Aleksandrówka, Kniahininek commune, Lutsk county and voivodeship in Wołyń  […] . Since childhood, I grew up and played with my Ukrainian peers, spoke Ukrainian very well, not believing what the neighbors said, I went to church services, which were very dense in Volhynia. I stand among the crowd in the church and listen to the Orthoddox priest's speech to the faithful and this is the way: «Christians brothers, Ukrainians, it is your duty to fuck Poles and there will be an independent Ukraine. And for this slaughter I bless you». I ran home quickly, told it to my mother and siblings, then to the neighbors. A great tension and fear arose, because so far the Germans organized round–ups and took people to Germany or shot them in the street, but mostly Poles, because there was no one to speak up for them  […] Between my village of Aleksandrówka and Ludwiszyn near the forest lived a Pole, Łobuczek Piotr, with his wife, mother and his little son. In his spare time from working in the field, he was involved in rural blacksmithing, repairing plows, harrows, etc. My mother sent me to Mr. Łobuczek to learn blacksmithing, I personally liked Piotr and as soon as I drove the cows to the pigsty, I immediately ran to learn blacksmithing. The day of horror in my life is May 16, 1943. [On this day,] on a Sunday morning, I sat on our horse from the farm and decided to go through the forest, because the road was much shorter to my blacksmithing teacher, Mr. Łobuczek, Piotr. The forest, about 3 km I traveled happily, I thought too – let the Bandera followers not attack me. When I looked ahead, from the edge of the forest I saw the smoking ruins of Łobuczek's buildings. I was overwhelmed by unlimited fear, despair that something terrible had happened. I turned my mare right away and rushed her with all my might, thinking there might be an ambush for me. I was traveling along only paths in the woods that I knew, and as it turned out, it saved me from inevitable death, because on the main forest road, there were reams, they were waiting for Poles alive. In my home, I told what I saw. The whole village was gathered in a moment, armed with scythes, pitchforks and shovels. We reached the ruins of Łobuczka's farm, I saw charred bodies, 4 people, it was: Łobuczek, his wife, mother and son Piotr. Desperate and helpless anger prevailed in the crowd of Poles who came against the Ukrainian gangs. But the people came to the conclusion that they had to diverge quickly, because the bands of ryzuns could surround and slaughter all the Poles gathered here”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – May 1943, Spring 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „Testimony of Konstanty Jeżyński, a former resident of the Aleksandrówka colony, commune Kniahininek, poviat Lutsk”; in: Archives of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation - Institute of National Remembrance, in: No. 638 purchase book, ref. No. AGK27WDAK, Vl53 – the report was received by the Soldiers of the 27th Volhynia Infantry Division of the Home Army in 1985

Right after Christmas, the UPA murdered two Polish women: a mother and a daughter, and an unknown number of other Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The second day of Christmas, 1943. Four‑year‑old Anielka climbs onto the bed where her mother and grandmother are lying. She grabs mum's hand, tugs, but mum doesn't move. Grandma is so cold too. Fear. This is one of the first, so intense memories of Aniela Glazik–Kowalska, née Juniewicz. From that day on, orphans. Born in 1939 in the Ochocin colony, near Lutsk, the d/o Janina and Józef. Her father, a soldier of September, did not return from German captivity. In October 1943, in Ochocin, neighbors murdered her grandfather, Józef Smolarz, and her father's brother, Sigismud Juniewicz. – The drama is that members of my family died because they trusted their neighbors – says Waldemar Kowalski. – Earlier, upon hearing about the pogroms, my grandparents decided to go to a place where there were larger groups of Poles. Ukrainian neighbors found them and started persuading them to come back. They declared that the „among their”s would not be hurt. The same people carried out the executions. After the tragedy, Janina Juniewicz with Aniela and mother Katarzyna Smolarz moved to the colony of Aleksandrówka, where the Poles organized a self–defense unit associated with the Home Army. In Aleksandrówka, the women stayed with the Błażejczyk family, from which Katarzyna came. The house was locked at night. On Christmas evening a seventeen‑year‑old neighbor from Ochocin knocked on the door. Ukrainian, but fluent Polish, polite, always polite. He asked them to leave for a while, because he had to tell them something very important. They trusted. When they reached the threshold, shots rang out. Soon after, self–defense units, with the help of Soviet partisans, apprehended two perpetrators of the crime. They were ordered to bury Janina and Katarzyna. – Katarzyna's son and my grandmother's brother, eighteen‑year‑old Jan Smolarz, was in the Home Army partisans – says Waldemar Kowalski. – After the funeral the commander said that he could personally shoot the murderers of the mother and sister–in–law. Refused.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Abramowicz Dorota, „You will not be harmed in your midst ”; in: portal: Baltic Daily — web page: plus.dziennikbaltycki.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]