Franciszek and Marian Kozdrowski were murdered by the Banderites.

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

source: Kotowicz Irena, „Bloody calendar of events in Barysz, district Buczacz, voivodeship Tarnopolskie” — web page: www.wbc.poznan.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

November 14/15, 1943 Drozdowski, Stanisław was murdered.

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

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7

The headmaster of the school, Drozdowski, who was kidnapped at night, from Barycz–Masuria in Czortkowski and the farmer Maria Stasiów. Their bodies were not found.

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

source: „Situation Report from the Polish Territories, No. 8/44”; in: The Polish Institute and the Gen. Sikorski in London, in: no: PRM — 122

November 24, 1943 Niziołek Michał, farmer, was murdered.

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

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7

In the evening, Michał Niziołek, a colonist from Volhynia, was shot and abducted, father of 5 children left without supplies.

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

source: „Situation Report from the Polish Territories, No. 8/44”; in: The Polish Institute and the Gen. Sikorski in London, in: no: PRM — 122

[The Ukrainians] murdered 6 Poles, including Ukrainian policemen, a family of three, in whose house the Home Army partisans and one Home Army partisan were detained, while the Bandera followers murdered one Pole and kidnapped a shop owner whose head was cut off in the forest. In the next attack, in December, they murdered another 3 Poles, including the headmaster of the primary school, his Ukrainian students were murdered — 9 Poles were killed in total. Others: „Murdered were: Stolarczuk Antoni, Kozdrowski Stefan, his wife and daughter, Kroczak Stanisław, Gogol J., Chmielewski N., Drabek Maria, Drozdowski Stanisław, and Kot Józef”.

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

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

A family of three was murdered by Ukrainians: Filipowicz Julian with his wife Józefa and daughter Jadwiga.

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

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7

[The Ukrainians] threw a grenade into the house, killing the father and son, they shot the mother and the wounded 18‑year‑old daughter (it was Anna Czerniecka) was taken out of the house and her head was chopped off with an ax. „The house was filled with Banderites. Uncle, who got up from bed, began to beat with rifle butts, and when the heat began to kick him on the head, face and breasts. At first my uncle covered his face with his hands and groaned, pleading with them, until he finally fell silent. My mother noticed a Ukrainian, Jilek Czechun, the same one who denounced my father to the Gestapo in 1943  […] At that time, my uncle was picked up and supported by two Bandera followers and dragged towards the door. I remember my uncle turned his head and softly said, 'Stay well.' These were his last words. After a while, all the Bandera followers left the apartment. After some time, my mother went out to the yard and noticed how my uncle was murdered. He was later found to have had his tongue cut out, his eyes gouged out, his genitals cut off, his face slashed. The torturers tied the body of my uncle to the sledge and took them with them  […] On the same night at At 22 o'clock, the Bandera followers attacked the house of my uncle, Maciej Warchoł. After breaking the door, they led him out into the yard, beating the head and back with rifle butts. In the yard, they tortured him, cut off his tongue and genitals, gouged out his eyes, then put a rope around his neck, attached him to a sledge and dragged him through the snow. They loaded all the murdered on a sleigh and left. The next morning, grandma Teresa Wiśniewska and my mother Katarzyna Warchoł went to look for the bodies of the murdered. There were traces of blood on the snow, which led to the field of the nearby Ukrainian village of Wierzbiatyn. There, under the manure heap, the bodies of the murdered were found”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

At the end of March 1944, the Ukrainian gang again attacked Polish farms on the outskirts of Barysz. They burned down several houses and murdered Mikołaj Warchał, Stefan Dębicki, N. Poterowicz and several other Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Kotowicz Irena, „Bloody calendar of events in Barysz, district Buczacz, voivodeship Tarnopolskie” — web page: www.wbc.poznan.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

My husband's grandfather was murdered on May 9, 1944 in Barysz, commune of Buczacz, we looked through the list, but my grandfather's name is not on it. My husband's mother with her siblings and her mother did not sleep in their home for 6 months for fear of an attack, they lived at Zawale.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Małgorzata, 15 July 2008

H. Komański et Sz. Siekierka  […] do not record any murder committed on May 9, 1944, while „Małgorzata”, who reported did not provide details of her grandfather.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 140—144

Attacked by strong Banderites, Poles in one house took up a defense that lasted 5 hours. In the village, Ukrainian partisans, using mainly axes, knives and bayonets, murdered at least 135 Poles and wounded 30. 10 defenders from „and IB”, who did not manage to leave for Buczacz, were also killed, as ordered by their commander, a Ukrainian cooperating with the UPA. The Ukrainians plundered and burned 400 Polish farms. Maria Banda and her 10‑year‑old son Stanisław were hacked with axes in their farm yard. 12‑year‑old Helena Boczar was stabbed with knives. 80‑year‑old Anastazja Brylkowska was hacked with an ax while sleeping in bed. 12‑year‑old Michał Herbut was thrown into a pond, where he drowned. „On the night of February 4–5, 1945, there was an attack by UPA bands on the Mazury estate inhabited by Poles themselves. At that time, the self–defense battalion was called to Buczacz, where it was supposed to defend the city against attack. There were only three soldiers left at the post. The gang numbered over 200 people well armed with firearms and machine guns. The attackers were dressed in white covers and approached the houses almost imperceptibly. They set fire to buildings, shot people who escaped, and hacked with axes the rest in their apartments or yards. The children were loaded with pitchforks and thrown into the fire. Babies grabbed their feet, smashed their heads against the walls or edges of door frames, and also threw them into the fire”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Warchoł Piotr, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 687—788

A teenage Stanisław Baraniecki remembered: „In the evening  […] a long and quiet conversation took place in our house. Apart from our family, my mother's brother, Stach Działoszyński, and my father's brother, Michał Baraniecki, participated in it. The prevailing opinion was that the Bandera followers would attack Puźniki, and our self–defense was too weak to defend us. In the end, it was decided that to save our lives we had to leave our fatherland  […] . The road to Buczacz ran through Barysz  […] We were in Barysz 3 days after burning and murdering its inhabitants from the Masuria district  […] Chimneys protruded from the ashes and the remains of the walls. In front of some of the ruins of the houses lay mutilated, only in underwear, human bodies, children and adults. Along the road, on its right side, there was a river or a canal  […] Somewhere in the middle of the canal, there was a lock that allowed water to accumulate. The naked body of an infant was impaled with its belly on the protruding blade of the airlock  […] Many events of those years have been forgotten by time, but I will not forget the image of this baby on the airlock until the end of my days.”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Dancewicz Maciej, „Destruction of Puźnik” — web page: archiwum.rp.pl [accessible: 2008.07.10]

NOTE. Prepared by the Comm [itet] Teaching of the Baryska Rural Council of the Buczacz district of the Tarnopol region about the fact that on the night of February 5–6, 1945 in the village of Barysz of the Buczacki region at Mazury Street, they were shot by an unknown OUN gang in a bestial manner, the following Soviet citizens of nationality Polish:
KRET Maria
TORONCZAK Antoni s/o Łukasz
RAJCZAKOWSKA Aniela, her two underage daughters and two grandsons
RAJCZAKOWSKA Maria d/o Szymon and her two adult daughters
BOCZAR Antoni s/o Maciej and his two underage daughters
WOLSKA Maria d/o Józef and her little son at the age of three
WOLSKA Maria d/o Michał and a small child
WOLSKA Marcel d/o Stanisław and a small child
HERBUT Józef s/o Marcelego
OŚMIŃSKI Ignacy, his son, son's wife and two children
BOCZAR Józef s/o Piotr and his son
WISZNIOWSKA Marcel d/o Ignacy
BOCZAR Anna and her daughter
KUPISZEWSKA Maria d/o Stanisława and her child
HERBUT Andrzej s/o Marceli
KOZDROWSKA Anna
BRYŁKOWSKI Józef
WOLSKA Maria d/o Stefan and her daughter
WOLSKA Anna
JAMNIUK Anastazja d/o Teodor and her minor son and daughter
KOWCZ Anna and her son
RYBKA Anna d/o Michał and her son
JASIŃSKI Basil
LULKA Paweł s/o Peter
REWUCKA Rozalia
WOJTUN Piotr
BILECKI Jan s/o Maciej
TERLECKI Jan
KORCZYŃSKA Helena
ALBERT Jan, his wife, daughter and son
GRABSKA Rozalia d/o Michał and her son
JAWNIUK Maria
DEMBICKA Adela d/o Michał and her son
KOWIA Piotr
In total, the bandits shot 110 people. The names of all those shot are not known to the Baryska Rural Council. They were buried in a common grave at the Baryskie cemetery. Moreover, during the execution, the bandits burnt almost 180 houses and other buildings belonging to the executed Soviet citizens.
Chairman of the Rural Council (–) KONDRATIUK
Secretary of the (–) HNAP.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „Note of the Executive Committee of the Rural Council in Barysz from March 1951 regarding the terrorist act of the OUN and the UPA”; in: State Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine, in: F. 2, op. 2, case 2, sh. 13—14 – the original of the note is in the files of the investigative case No. 9721, volume 2, p. 212, on the indictment of Pryszlak TL, kept in the UKGB of the Tarnopol region

The Ukrainians murdered 3 Poles, including the Stolarczyk couple.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The following were murdered by the UPA: Buchwald Roman, Gąsiorowski Mieczysław, Stolarczyk Stefan, Szurakowski Józef, Skiba Jan, Skiba Antoni, Skiba Michał, Bartkiewicz Stefan, Bartkiewicz Fryderyk.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003