The Banderites murdered 9 Poles, forestry workers, including a family of 4 with 2 children. „In the village of Grabowa near Busko – on January 25 – a forester, Jan Orzechowski, was murdered along with several people, including” forestry workers.

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

source: Dłuski Stanisław, „A fragment of a great crime”; in: „Polish Forest”, in: No. 13—14, 1991

In February 1944, the SB‑OUN militia under the command of Kupiak attacked the buildings of the forest inspectorate in Grabowa at night. They burned down the sawmill and the buildings of the forest inspectorate. The following were murdered in a brutal way: forest inspector, Engr. Kamiński Kazimierz, 30, employee of the Moderski forest district office, Orzechowski Stanisław, a forester around 50, and his wife and two children, Orzechowski Jan, Zimochowski. forester, Korczyński Władysław forester. A total of 9 people were murdered, including 2 children.

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

source: web page: www.busk.pl [accessible: 2019.01.01]

Others: in the village of Grabowa, county Złoczów „On January 26, 1944, 16 Poles of NN” were murdered.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; 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

According to the received telephone data, on January 27, from 5 pm to the early hours on January 28 this year. the following attacks and murders of the Polish population took place in the following towns: Grabowa, county Kamionka Str. The state forest inspectorate was attacked, where a forester, forestry apprentice, accountant and two gamekeepers were murdered, then the building was burned down.

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

source: „1944, January 28 - A letter from PolKO in Kamionka Strumiłowa to the Delegate of the RGO in Lviv concerning attacks, murders and abductions of the Polish population”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 179—178

On January 27, 1944, an armed gang of 19 people attacked the 10 km forest district in Grabowa. north of Busko, county Kamionka Strumiłowa, where 5 men were murdered and all burned. The gang came from the forest on 3 carts, and on the first cart they were dressed in German uniforms and officer's hats. So when they knocked on the porch, they were admitted as Germans inside. Others followed and murdered all those present.

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

source: „1944, January - Note on preparations for attacks and formation of Ukrainian gangs”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 44259

In the Grabowa Forest District, they captured the personnel leaving after work and brutally murdered five Poles, including the forester J. Orzechowski.

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

source: Kulińska Lucyna, „The history of the Committee of the Eastern Territories against the background of the fate of the Polish population in 1943-1947”, in: vol. 2, p. 592, 728

In the village of Grabów near Toporów, county Radychów was murdered by the UPA, after a raid on the employees of the Forest Service and the headquarters of the forest division, five NN foresters, employees of a private forest inspectorate.

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

source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]

[The Ukrainians] murdered 9 Poles, forestry workers, including a family of 4 with 2 children (others state the date of January 26, 1944); „died at the hands of the UPA 6 men and a woman with two children, incl. Kamiński Kazimierz aged 50, Orzechowski Stanisław aged 50”.

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

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

In February 1944, when I was returning to Lviv from my hometown of Adama near Busk, where I organized a self–defense against attacks by Ukrainian chauvinists, while passing through Busk, I came across a funeral of 6 Poles. I found out then that they were victims of the murder of Polish employees of the Forest Inspectorate in the village of Grabowa by Ukrainian nationalists from the OUN–UPA sign. Among the murdered was also my friend and classmate, Kazimierz Kamiński, MA. Already then it was said that it was the work of Kupiak's gang and that all the murders and arson were the work of the Security Service group of about 20 people, commanded by Kupiak.

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

source: Szeremeta Bronisław, „Warlord - his crimes and false memories”, in: Wrocław, 2000 — web page: www.nawolyniu.pl [accessible: 2022.04.06]

[The Ukrainians] murdered 3 Poles, including a teacher and her husband. „On February 17, 1945, the SB militia headed by Kupiak murdered in the village of Grabowa. Their victims were: the inspector of education in the Busk region — Konstanty Naczas and his wife, a teacher — Maria. In addition, Katarzyna Politykało was arrested, strangled and thrown into a well, after which the bandits left with their stolen property. Testimony of a witness, Falińska Susabowska: «at the beginning of 1945, Kupiak's militia murdered the Naczasy couple, Konstanty and Maria, who lived in the village of Grabowa. The cause of the murder was that Konstanty Naczas, the inspector of the district department of popular education in Busko, was sympathetic to the Soviet authorities and acted against Ukrainian nationalists. also, his wife Maria, a teacher from the village of Grabowa, did not like Ukrainian nationalists. I learned about this murder from Michał Pociłujka ‹Niesytoho›». Testimony of Naczasy's daughter — Lidia Poroniuk, this is what characterizes this event: «It remained in my memory for all my life when my parents bathed me that evening. Suddenly, several bandits entered the room. One of them seemed very tall to me, started talking to my father and then shot him. Father fell, the lamp in the room went out. I got very scared and started screaming». Testimony of Maria Naczas' father, Tomasz Sosnowski: «The bandits entered our cottage and ordered the supper. after supper, they said they had a business with the teachers and entered the other room where Maria's daughter lived with her husband and child. My wife was not allowed in this room. after a few minutes, they fired five shots and left immediately. One of them ordered the child to be taken. When my wife and I entered the room, my daughter and her husband lay dead. The daughter had several wounds in the head, her husband had only one»”.

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

source: Szeremeta Bronisław, „Warlord - his crimes and false memories”, in: Wrocław, 2000 — web page: www.nawolyniu.pl [accessible: 2022.04.06]

The Banderites murdered 9 Poles, including an 8‑year‑old orphan, and 2 people from a Polish–Ukrainian family. They died: Bałandiuk Edward (Paweł), Bałandiuk Paulina, Młot Jan, Sosnowska Katarzyna, Sosnowska Maria, Sosnowski Aleksy, Smaga Julia, Sobaszak Anna, a boy aged 8 orphans, Soroka Emilia, Soroka Jan.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

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

On June 23, 1945, Kupiak, at the head of his gang and the forest gang, OUN–UPA „Sołowija”, attacked the village of Grabowa, where four families were murdered. They died at the hands of the torturers: Maria Sosnowska and Katarzyna Domarecka, whose husbands served in the assault battalion (istrebitel's battalion), Anna Sobaszek, her husband served in the Soviet army, sixty‑year‑old Jan Młot, Julia Smaga, Oleksy Sosnowski, Paweł Bałandiuk, Emilia Soroka, Jan Soroka and an eight‑year‑old boy – an orphan. A total of 11 people. Their property enriched the bandits' account.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Szeremeta Bronisław, „Warlord - his crimes and false memories”, in: Wrocław, 2000 — web page: www.nawolyniu.pl [accessible: 2022.04.06]