after being shot, the UPA kidnapped the village of Wołczak, county Włodzimierz Wołyński, the former commander of „Strzelec” [Shooter] organisation, and then cruelly murdered him. „On the first day of Easter 43, the UPA nationalists from Wołczak surrounded Stanisław Uleryk's house in Budy Ossowskie. The escaping person was injured with a rifle shot, and the wounded man was already taken to the UPA headquarters in Wołczak. There he was tortured in the famous execution in a barn near the forest. Until 39, Staszek Uleryk was the commander of the youth organization «Strzelec», so he was already dangerous for the OUN–UPa”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Kata Henryk, „War winds”, fragments, prepared by Bogusław Szarwiło; in: Otwock City Office, in: 2001 — web page: 27wdpak.btx.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

The Ukrainians murdered Smoczyński's teacher.

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

In the villages of: Dominipol, Jesionówka, Mikołajówka, Swojczów, Swojczówka, Turża (all in the commune of Werba, district Włodzimierz Wołyński), Budy Ossowskie, Kowalówka – Marszałkówka, Kowalówka, Ossa (all in the commune of Turzysk, county of Kowel), Leżachów (commune of Kupiczów, Kowel county), Czosnówka or Szczęsnówka, Kisielówka (Kisielin commune, Horochów county) and in many others, in the spring of 1943, The Ukrainians from the UPA staff in the village of Wołczak managed to persuade about 90 young Poles aged 15–20 partisans who allegedly were to fight Germany together with the Ukrainian partisans on the basis of the Polish–Ukrainian agreement. Poles had to return their weapons for the night to a warehouse guarded only by the UPA. „From the spring of 1943, Ukrainian partisans were also quartered in a school in Dominopol and in private apartments of many Poles in our village. Local people said that these large Ukrainian troops came somewhere from the direction of Lviv. I remember there was talk of 2,000 soldiers, and maybe even more. Polish families fed them, washed their things and lodged them, and they were solemnly assured that there would be peace and an alliance against the Germans between us. I was also told that in the summer of 1942, the Ukrainians publicly announced a call, addressed primarily to young, strong Poles living in our area, to willingly join the Polish–Ukrainian partisans. They even came personally to Polish homes by carts and took selected men, saying: We will fight together, we will not go to the pit like the Jews!  […] And yet the worst happened, not only almost all the soldiers from the above–mentioned unit died, their number was supposed to reach 120. Almost all of my village, including my closest ones, was also brutally murdered”.

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

source: Roch Sławomir Tomasz, „Recollections of Kazimierz and Antonina Sidorowicz née Turowska from the village of Dominopol in the district of Włodzimierz Wołyński in Volhynia 1930-1944”; in: portal: Volhynia, in: Zamosc, May 1, 2003 — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.04.06]

More and more often, Polish farmers were called, young and strong, most often in the army as they needed UNDERWATER. Unfortunately, once someone went there, he almost never came back home. People in our colony quietly commented on it unequivocally: „The Ukrainians are murdering our husbands and sons in the forest in a treacherous way, so they still do not return to their homes!”. In this way, my cousin Stanisław Hypś, about 32 years old, from our colony Piński Most and many others, mainly from Dominopol, disappeared without a trace.

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

source: Sienkiewicz Antoni

My brother, Adam Turowski, and three other farmers from Dominopol, also went one day, called by the Ukrainians, who had come to our village to collect them. Marcel Mikulski told me about it personally. Since then, no trace of them and their horses have been found.

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

source: Roch Sławomir Tomasz, „Recollections of Kazimierz and Antonina Sidorowicz née Turowska from the village of Dominopol in the district of Włodzimierz Wołyński in Volhynia 1930-1944”; in: portal: Volhynia, in: Zamosc, May 1, 2003 — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.04.06]

The Ukrainians more and more often appeared in Polish villages and colonies and conducted a lively propaganda campaign. They persuaded young Polish men and boys to join the newly formed Polish partisan unit in Dominipol, which would fight together with the UPA against the Germans. I knew many boys who volunteered to join the army under the influence of this propaganda, for example: Eugeniusz Buczko, around 20. The remaining boys were from many different towns, including Jesionówka. Their headquarters was the building of our former primary school near the forest, they had their military post there. The unit of young boys stationed at the school was led by the Ukrainians into the forest to one of the clearings, and there was already a Ukrainian shooter with a machine gun.

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

source: Sienkiewicz Antoni

A few hours before the bloody Sunday, July 11, 1943, at night, several armed The Ukrainians arrived in the Polish village of Ludmiłopol by cart. They traveled to Polish families and called strong, young men to the Polish–Ukrainian partisans that were forming in Dominopol. In this way, they took a few Poles with them and drove towards Dominopol. However, they did not reach their destination. That same night, the Ukrainians, arriving at the first houses of the Zarudle village, right next to the farm of the Pole Żukowski, suddenly stopped and ordered the Poles to get off the cart. When the Poles found themselves in the meadow, the Ukrainians treacherously opened fire on them and fired them all. The following died then: Feliksiak Józef approx. 30, Szymański Henryk approx. 30. Puzio Franciszek approx. 30, and I do not remember the other names. I also know that Polish men were taken from the house by a Ukrainian, Ostapczuk Pieter, also from Ludmiłpol, and he also shot them later. The murderers either did not hide their crime at all or were scared off because they did not manage to hide the bodies of the murdered, who were found in the morning by the road, at the place where they were shot. Victims were also partially robbed of their clothes. Later, the victims' wives and their families would come to the place of the murder, and they would recognize their boys. Among these people was also Józef Feliksiak's wife Antonina, who later told me all this personally. who were found near the road in the morning at the place where they were shot. The victims were also partially robbed of their clothes. Later, the victims' wives and their families would come to the place of the murder, and they would recognize their boys. Among these people was also Józef Feliksiak's wife Antonina, who later told me all this personally. who were found near the road in the morning at the place where they were shot. The victims were also partially robbed of their clothes. Later, the victims' wives and their families would come to the place of the murder, and they would recognize their boys. Among these people was also Józef Feliksiak's wife Antonina, who later told me all this personally.

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

source: Roch Sławomir Tomasz, „Recollections of Kazimierz and Antonina Sidorowicz née Turowska from the village of Dominopol in the district of Włodzimierz Wołyński in Volhynia 1930-1944”; in: portal: Volhynia, in: Zamosc, May 1, 2003 — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.04.06]

The UPA took 19 Polish farmers with carts to the so–called submarines and murdered them.

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

The UPAs kidnapped several Poles, including the Szydłowski family, to the village of Wołczak, county Włodzimierz Wołyński and murdered them there.

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

The UPA and Ukrainian peasants from the villages of Rewuszki and Wołczak cruelly slaughtered 270 Poles; Polish farms were robbed and burned, the bodies were not buried, scattered around the countryside, the wells were full of living, wounded and murdered children and women thrown in. „At the end of August, a woman with two children arrived in Zasmyki, bringing the news about the murder of the inhabitants of Budy Ossowskie. When the Hawk's unit arrived at the place of extermination, it was met with a terrifying sight. For the first time, many partisans saw with their own eyes, people with axes, scythes, women with breasts cut off and massacred, indescribably bodies of children. The sight of many was remembered for life. Several terrified children and adults were found hidden in the fields and bushes. Witold Kuźmiński and several other people escaped through the Ukrainian countryside, because only this road was clear. As they ran, they shouted in Ukrainian that «Lachy had attacked» [Poles had attacked!] and the Ukrainians were also running with them to the forest. In the forest they only realized that they were running with Poles. I remember Mr. Witold told his daughter that during this dramatic escape, one of the women lost a few–week–old baby, she was holding an empty bundle at her breast. Witold Kuźmiński was the only survivor of a 15–person family. Father Piotr Kuźmiński was murdered on the road while trying to warn his son about the attack. Konstancja Kuźmińska née Chomicka – the wife of Piotr Kuźmiński, hid to befriended Ukrainian neighbors, but was extradited and murdered. Jadwiga aronowska nee Kuźmińska with her husband and two children and Kazimiera Kuźmińska, a miss, also murdered by a rampaging UPA gang and Ukrainian peasants, neighbors and friends. About 270 people died then, and, lost in the forests, long after that they reached the self–defense center in Zasmyki. The village disappeared from the face of the earth”.

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

source: Szarwiło Bogusław, „Budy Ossowskie ceased to exist”; in: portal: Volhynia pages — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

One and a half months after leaving our homes, on August 30, 1943, Budy Ossowskie and the Kowalówka colony were surrounded at dawn by armed gangs that emerged from the villages of Wołczak and Rzewuszki and massacred the Polish population. The result was terrifying: in Budy Ossowskie over two hundred people, including over eighty children, in Kowalówka for 23 families, 32 people were murdered. The Czarnecki family was murdered entirely; family father Jan Czarnecki – 55 years old, wife Dominik – 53 years old, daughter Maria, married – 23 years old, daughter Walentyna 19 years old, two sons, twins Marian and Eugeniusz – 14 years old, Maria's youngest daughter – Krystyna – three years old. s/o Staszek – 21 years old, absent at the time.

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

source: Kata Henryk, „War winds”, fragments, prepared by Bogusław Szarwiło; in: portal: Volhynia, Otwock City Office, in: 2001 — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.04.11]

My family comes from Zasmyki, Lubitów commune, Kowel district – recalls Wacław Gąsiorowski. – I was born in 1929. My parents' names were Władysław and Amelia née Wiśniewska, they ran a farm with an area of 12 ha. I had three more brothers, Czesław, Ludwik and Stanisław  […] In 1943, when the slaughter of Poles began, my mother fell ill. I went with her to the doctor in Budki Ossowskie, who treated her. This town was about 25 kilometers away from Zasmyki. We slept with a host, my mother's friend. In the morning we were awakened by the noise outside. It turned out that the Ukrainians had surrounded the village and were starting to catch and collect Poles. They dragged us out into the yard. – Mommy couldn't run away. I decided to stay with her. One of the Ukrainians was holding my hand, and three of them put my mother on the ground and began to experience her! When blood started to bleed, my mother shouted – Wacek, run away! – I broke away from these thugs and started running away. They fired after me but missed. I will remember the faces of Ukrainian murderers who survived my mother with a saw for my whole life! I still hear the scream of the murdered mother in my ears, I recognized some of the thugs who killed her in torment. One of them, Iwan Rybczuk, is still alive and lives in Gruszówka. It was he who survived the mother with the saw. After the war, he fell into the hands of the NKVD and served 15 years in a labor camp. Now he is a veteran and walks in the aura of a hero fighting for the freedom of Ukraine. He probably has many decorations and a veteran accessory. Then I escaped through the forest to Zasmyki. After some time, I joined the self–defense unit. To get to him, I had to cheat „the Hawk” and say that I was older. Children were not accepted into the guerrillas. I was placed in the platoon commanded by 2nd Lt. „Nagiel” that is Jan Witwicki. We had to fight the Ukrainians in defense of the murdered Polish people over and over again. There were times when we arrived too late, right after a crime was committed. I do not remember what village it was, I think Moczułki, it was the first time I saw „Jastrząb” crying. And this was a tough soldier who rarely showed emotion. The view we found there was beyond human comprehension. Tiny children nailed to pegs in the fence. The women were lying in the yard with their bellies ripped open. One of them was pregnant. The fetus ripped from her belly lay next to her. All the men had their heads chopped off with axes. Everyone was wondering + E246, how one can come to such degeneracy. They were all gripping their rifles tighter. We also passed through the town, where my mother was slaughtered. Her remains, along with other murdered people, were thrown into a well, which the UPA then razed to the ground. I told 2nd Lt. „Nagel”, but he said that if we won the war, we would make sure that the Poles murdered here had their graves. This, of course, never happened!  […] Our superiors cared not only about our combat skills, but also about morale. Every now and then we were reminded that it was forbidden to kill women and children during the operation. The command in the daily orders constantly reminded that anyone can shoot a colleague for the rape of a Ukrainian woman and will not be punished for it. so that the Poles murdered here would have their graves. This, of course, never happened!  […] Our superiors cared not only about our combat skills, but also about morale. Every now and then we were reminded that it was forbidden to kill women and children during the operation. The command in the daily orders constantly reminded that anyone can shoot a colleague for the rape of a Ukrainian woman and will not be punished for it. so that the Poles murdered here would have their graves. This, of course, never happened!  […] Our superiors cared not only about our combat skills, but also about morale. Every now and then we were reminded that it was forbidden to kill women and children during the operation. The command in the daily orders constantly reminded that anyone can shoot a colleague for the rape of a Ukrainian woman and will not be punished for it.

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

source: Koprowski Marek A., „The torturer is still alive”; in: portal: kresy.pl — web page: www.kresy.pl [accessible: 2013.07.03]

Others date the attack to August 29.

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