The UPA and Ukrainian peasants attacked the colony surrounded by night at dawn and slaughtered 146 Poles, including 40 people burnt alive in the forge and about 15 families in the barn. The Ukrainian teacher, Peter Muzyka, hid the 18‑year‑old Polish woman and did not want to turn her in, so the torturers shot him. Poles were caught and killed all over the colony and in its vicinity. They also murdered several Polish families chased here from the neighboring village of Myszów. The bodies were buried in three mass graves, which are now the collective farm fields. As everywhere, sadistic torture and rape took place here. After the slaughter, they caught the hiding three children of Jan Krzyszton and drowned them in a well. „It's raining. The father of Józef Ostrowski, a teenage boy, is not afraid of UPA partisans. Yes, he is a Pole, however, he was born in Volhynia and has lived here all his life. Even his son Józef cannot speak Polish properly. In the morning, a gang of The Ukrainians attack the Polish village of Gucin. They rush into the neighbors' house. The whole family is still asleep. The parents are stabbed while still in bed. Daughter chopped up with knives. Guts come out. The youngest son dies in his belly, nailed to the floor with a wooden stake. Joseph is awakened by a scream. His father tells him to run to a nearby forest. He packs the essentials himself and prepares to run away. Mother and little sister are crying. The neighbors from the farm next door are hiding in the barn. They have two sons. Józef goes to school with the older one. The younger one is only one year old. The Banderites search their house. They run out into the yard. They have to find every Pole without exception. The baby starts crying. Mother tries to silence them. Too late. The guerrillas close the barn and set fire. Józef is already behind the house. He's waiting for the family. The Banderites come and get them. They are taking his father, mother and sister out of the house. Ukrainian neighbors run to their yard. They put up for his father. Józef is hiding in the garden. His family is burned alive. Neighbors are tied to trees and cut off” limbs.

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

source: Maciejewski Kazimierz — web page: wzzw.wordpress.com [accessible: 2010.01.25]

I was born on July 26, 1940 in the village of Gucin, located in the Grzybowica commune, Włodzimierz county, in the Volhynia voivodship  […] A few days before the attack, my father was admonished to take his family and leave the land, otherwise they would all be murdered. But my father, seeing the swaying fields of corn in front of the house, stated that this was his place on earth and that he was not going to leave here. Next Sunday, on July 11, 1943, we were suddenly attacked by the Ukrainians who began murdering the villagers in a brutal way. There were axes, knives, daggers, anything else. Apparently, one of the attackers stabbed people while riding a horse. As a three‑year‑old child, I was hit on the head with an ax at the level of the meninges. Grandfather Władysław, grandmother Bronisław, my little sister Wiesia, aunt Janina and uncle Roman were burnt alive in the barn. Father Jan, on the other hand, was tied to a well and stabbed with daggers, and his 18‑year‑old brother Boguś was cut in half. I was the only one in my family to survive the Volhynian Massacre. Unfortunately, I don't know who the person who saved my life was. It was most likely a partisan man who was sent to reconnoiter. The wounded were taken to the hospital, the dead were buried. Flooded with blood and unconscious, he found me among the dead. He took me on a piggyback to get to the slower zone. We were walking among bushes and fields at night, because only at night he could get there with me. He was afraid that the criminals would not get to him. I was assigned to the 27th Volhynian Infantry Division of the Home Army, I was in the hospital in Włodzimierz Wołyński for two weeks and was reported to the priest as an orphan. After these events, complete strangers took me over to raise me.

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

source: Stasiak Małgorzata, Woźniak Kamil, „The Banderites murdered my family”, interview with Anna Załęcka, witness of the Volhynia Massacre; in: portal: Twojradom.pl — web page: twojradom.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]