The Ukrainians murdered about 10 Poles.

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

The Banderites killed 7 Poles with axes. „Armed men came to the house of Piotr and Parania Lasków. Upon seeing them, the man ran to the attic, dragging the ladder behind him. The pregnant woman stayed with the little baby. Not finding her husband, the UPA brought the 30‑year‑old Władysław Laska, the approximately 40‑year‑old Mateusz Olszewski and the 28‑year‑old Franciszek Laska to the hall. It was decided to kill the men with axes. The detainees could not count on the mercy of Ukrainian wetboys. The cruelty of the Bandera followers was accompanied by unprecedented cynicism. Every now and then, they demanded that the captured should place their heads differently on the wooden threshold of the house. They put an ax to their neck, about to deliver a killing blow. Men, paralyzed by fear, or perhaps convinced that – in view of the impossibility of freeing themselves – the best solution for them would be to shorten the execution time, they obediently followed the orders of the perpetrators. Finally the ax got caught in the necks of the victims. Blood flooded the floor in wide streams. After some time, the Bandera followers left, leaving the bodies of the murdered. Soon after this incident, Parania gave birth to a child. It was born dwarfed. On the tragic evening, the Bandera followers killed four other men with axes. Around 8 p.m. they appeared in the farmstead of Piotr and Stefania Piątak. The woman was spinning wool in the dim light of the kerosene lamp as the Bandera followers knocked on the windows. The owner of the property, a strong 40‑year‑old man, quickly jumped to the door and swung it with all his might. Both spouses shouted loudly, asking for help. Nobody came to help. Meanwhile, the attackers, Unable to force the door open, they broke the window with rifle butts and jumped into the apartment. They shot Piotr Piątak. When he slipped to the ground, they hit him in the head with an ax. It happened in front of his wife Stefania (who was seven months pregnant) and their 9‑year‑old daughter. Soon after, Stefania's baby was born. It only survived for 3 months. After the murder in the house of Piotr and Stefania Piątak, the Bandera followers killed 24‑year‑old Jan Bokła with an ax. They killed 18‑year‑old Stanisław Kulczycki in a similar way. They chopped off his head in front of his 6‑year‑old nephew Henryk Kulczycki. The series of cruel slaughter carried out on February 17 ended with the murder of about 30‑year‑old Stanisław Iwaczewski. The circumstances of his death are unknown. It is only known that he was killed by the ax”.

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

source: Jazownik Maria, Jazownik Leszek, „The rotters have regret” — web page: ljazownik.cwahi.net [accessible: 2009.11.01]

The Banderites murdered 10 Poles.

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

In September 1944, they encircled the property of 33‑year‑old Jan Piętak, who collaborated with the Home Army in Pidhaitsi. Two of the attackers entered the apartment. They demanded that the man go out into the yard. Jan Piętak, passing by the kitchen stove, grabbed the pot in which the dumplings were boiling, and sprayed boiling water in the face of one of the attackers, and killed the other with the pot. Sam ran up the ladder to the attic. He probably had grenades hidden there. Through the hole in the thatch he tried to throw one of them towards the UPA, but whether it was because he was hit by a bullet or because he was too hastily pulled the pin out of his nerves, he failed to do so. The grenade exploded in his hand. Rumor has it that the attacker, who had no eyesight, pleaded with his fellows to shoot him.

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

source: Jazownik Maria, Jazownik Leszek, „The rotters have regret” — web page: ljazownik.cwahi.net [accessible: 2009.11.01]

The Banderites murdered 2 Poles. „On December 2, 1944, the Bandera followers once again came for the victims they had chosen. Late at night, the sleigh stopped in front of the house of Michał and Katarzyna Olszewski. Six newcomers burst into the house. After a while they dragged the man to the sleigh, and the woman, who refused to give them his coat, hit the back with the butt. The woman died three weeks later, on Christmas Eve itself. Her orphaned children, Roman and Tadeusz, never saw their father again. After the war, it was found out that he had been taken away from the countryside. There he was forced to dig a grave. With his tongue cut off and his arms and legs broken, he was thrown into a pit and buried alive. Some claim that he was murdered for witnessing the crime against Hłava's family, while Hryńka Patry¸ others suppose that he had to pay a price for it, that by accident he noticed one of the neighbors of a long–bearded Bandera who was hiding in the yard. On the day the criminals abducted Michał Olszewski, they also came for his brother, Kazimierz. Thanks to the presence of the mind of their teenage daughters, who managed to convince the Bandera followers that their father was not at home, Kazimierz avoided a tragic fate. The criminals managed to capture 34‑year‑old Antoni Błaha. Taken together with Michał Olszewski, disappeared without a trace”.

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

source: Jazownik Maria, Jazownik Leszek, „The rotters have regret” — web page: ljazownik.cwahi.net [accessible: 2009.11.01]

Katarzyna Olszewska, 42, died as a result of a severe beating by the Banderites.

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

The Banderites murdered over a dozen Poles; In total, in February, July and December 1944 and in January 1945, 59 Poles died here, including families of 7 and 6.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; 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. 258

1. Black Anna, 32 years old; 2–4. Laska Czesław, age 13 and Mieczysław Czarny, age 2, and their grandfather Jan Czarny, age 70; 5. Olszewski Michał, 42; 6. Olszewska Katarzyna, 42; 7. Olszewska Anna, age 4; 8. Piątak Piotr, 37; 9. Piątak Jan, age 33.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; 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 murdered 37 Poles, including 17 children under 14 and 16 women.

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

source: „Memory Call: Łężyca October 2013. Borderlands victims….”; in: portal: BezPrzesady — web page: bezprzesady.com [accessible: 2022.03.02]

The beginning of 1945 did not bode well for anything good. In the first days of January, just before the Epiphany, there appeared ominous posters with the words: Candle on the table, ax on the forehead. Indeed, on January 5, the night before the aforementioned holiday, the Bandera followers performed another slaughter. They killed 36 villagers with machine guns. Five children from the Bokło family died, their father – Jakub Bokle – managed to hide in the well. Helena Maczuga and her three children, including one in infancy, were also shot. The 6–person Mazurk family (parents and four small ones) was shot. An elderly couple, Anna and Roman Michałowski, died. Józefa Moroz, 40, who favored Poles, was killed in the presence of her Ukrainian husband. A 35‑year‑old woman named Niedźwiecka died with three small children. Among the murdered were two Olszewski brothers with their families. Tekla and Piotr Olszewski and their three children were killed: Anastazja (22), Ludwik (14) and Anna (4). Moreover, Maria and Antoni Olszewski together with their 21‑year‑old daughter Magdalena, died. Their second daughter, Anna Czarna, and her 13‑year‑old son from her first marriage, Czesław Laska, and 2.5‑year‑old son from her second marriage, Mieczysław Czarny, as well as her 70‑year‑old father–in–law, Jan Czarny, were also killed. The list of the murdered is closed with 24‑year‑old Anastazja Zamkotowicz and her approximately 60‑year‑old father – Kazimierz Zamkotowicz. The bodies of the murdered were placed on spread sheets in a common, today completely neglected grave in the Gniowa cemetery. When Poles celebrate the Epiphany, Greek Catholics celebrate Christmas Eve. The Christmas Eve of 1945 had to be exceptional for members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. It is hard to imagine what the Bandera followers felt when, right after the series of murders, they sat down to a gala dinner and, clasping their hands stained with the blood of Polish children, women and old men, prayed in joyful anticipation of the Lord's Birth.

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

source: Jazownik Maria, Jazownik Leszek, „The rotters have regret” — web page: ljazownik.cwahi.net [accessible: 2009.11.01]

The Banderites murdered a Polish couple: it was Michał Bokła, 50, and his wife Maria, 50.

source: „Remembrance Roll-call: Łężyca, October 2013. In memory of Kresy victims”; in: portal: BezPrzesady — web page: bezprzesady.com [accessible: 2022.03.02]

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]