Dołmat aka Dotman Jerzy – forester, 29 years old – forests count. Czacki, murdered alone in the forest on March 25, 1943.

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

source: „1943, July - List of rescued and victims and an overview of the murder committed by Ukrainians in the village of Gurów in Volhynia, prepared at the RGO in Lviv”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 297— 307

It is probably about Jerzy Dogmat – see March 20, 1943.

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

The Polish colony was surrounded around midnight by UPA militias and Ukrainian peasants from the villages of: Iwanicze, Bielicze, Myszków, Zabłoćce and Żdżary Duże. around at 2.30, each Polish house was attacked by 1–2 UPA armed with firearms and a few Ukrainian peasants armed with various tools. The household members were tortured, chopped with axes, stabbed with pitchforks, etc. Seriously wounded, brutally mutilated, they died for 2–3 days, some slightly wounded managed to escape to the Sokalski county in the province. Lviv. „Data on the village of Gurów, county Vladimir.
According to our data, 132 people were saved from this village (exact name list – with age given), the rest were murdered. Sporadic murders started already around Christmas – the intensity was quite significant in February and March, and from Palm Sunday the people lived in fear due to the fact that the mass murder of Poles had been announced. However, only men hid, because those nights they were kidnapped and murdered in the forest. Women and children stayed in the huts, expecting nothing bad. Therefore, when there was an organized attack on the Russian Piotr and Paweł, i.e. on July 11–12, the murderers harvested a large harvest, especially among women and children, because they were mainly found in huts. Men, lying in the bushes in the crops, watched helplessly as their loved ones were murdered.
The following people died (data provided by eyewitnesses and signed by them – a type of death certificate is drawn up).
Ponińskie – Helena, Sabina, Wanda on July 10, 1943. 3 people
Dołmat aka Dotman Jerzy – forester, 29 years old – forests count. Czacki, murdered alone in the forest on March 25, 1943. 1st person
3. whole family murdered to the ground on July 11, 1943. 6 people Barszewski Bolesław, 62 years old; wife of Stanisław, 60; s/o Sigismud 'daughter–in–law of Wincentyna; grandson Leszek; grandson Wacek
Hublowa with her daughter Giza
Stankiewicz Regina, 29, d/o Jaguś, 1.5 years old
Witaszczyk Piotr, 48 years old; Józef's wife, 48; d/o adela, 17 years old; son Bolesław, 12 years old
Malinowski Jan 11.VII.1943. 6 people
Malinowski, Leon 11.VII.1943. 6 people
Friday Józef 11.VII.1943. 1 person
Poniński Franciszek, 67. 4 people; son Teodor, 32 years old; daughter–in–law aniela, 32 years old; grandson (name unknown), 4 years old, murdered at home on July 11, 1943
Poniński Władysław, aged 48 on July 11, 1943. 3 people; wife of Malwin., 48; wife's mother, Serafińska Waleria, 70s
Radzikowski Jan, 52 years old; Maria, 52 years old; aniela, 30 years old; Danusia, 12 years old; Florian, aged 14 – July 11, 1943. out of a family of 10, only 3 survived
Matwijczuk Paweł, 48 years old, 3 people; antonia, 50 years old; Domicela, 25
Szczęśniewski Zbigniew, 11, Danuta, 15 – children of the head of Gurów murdered in his yard by a UPA neighbor
Szczęśniewski Stanisław, 25 years old
Tenichiewicz Wiesława, 17 years old pupil of the mayor.
Jaruga Józef, 32 years old on July 11, 1943. 2 people wife Maria, 32
Jaruga Wincenty, 30 years old; Michalina, 22 years old; Danusia, 1.5 years old; Stanisław, 70 years old; Franciszka, 48, 6 people were murdered in one house.
Sadowski Franciszek, aged 67 3 people; Kazimiera, 36 years old; Maria, 34 years old
Szczawiński Jan, 67 years old 4 people aleksander, 32 years old Helena, 20 years old; child (first name unknown)
Szczawiński Paweł, 35 years old 3 people Helena, 30 years old; child (unknown name), 4 years old
Janas Ewa, 60 years old, 1 person
Grzelak Stefan, age 11 3 people in one house Bednarek Józefa (grandmother), age 70; servant, called Volodek, 25
Szelepajło Teodor, 33 years old, 3 people Franciszka, 22 years old; Gertrude's mother, 60
Lost Michalina, 60 years old on July 11, 1943. 4 people Józefa, 36 years old; Stanisław, 13 years old; Mieczysław, 17
Swiatek Władysław, 41 years old on July 10, 1943. 2 people wife anna, 50
Ignacy Poniński, 40, on July 10, 1943. 3 people Ballina, 30 years old; Julian, 14
Cepowski Stanisław, 30 years old 5 people Rozalia, 30 years old; daughter (unknown name), 8 years old; son (unknown name), 6 years old; son (unknown name), 5 years old
Koper antoni, 58 years old, 4 wife, 56 years old; grandmother, 80s; daughter–in–law of Stanisław, 23 (son working in Germany)
Kaniecka Józefa, 60 years old 3 people daughter, 3 years old; Witaszczyk Józefa (foster child), 27 years old
Popiel Marian, 41 years old 5 people. Popiel Marian, a middle school teacher by profession. he came from Stryj, where he has a close family. He settled temporarily in Gurów; Zofia, 41 years old; Janusz, 11 years old; Zofia, 9 years old; son (unknown name), 1.5 years old
Jarosz Wojciech, 47 years old 5 people Wiktoria, 47 years old; Władysława, 17 years old; daughter, 12 years old; son, age 11
Grzelak adam, 60 years old 5 people Maria, 60 years old; Kaczorowska Stanisława, 27 years old (daughter); Katarzyna, 7 years old (granddaughter); (name unknown), 5 years old (granddaughter)
Józefa Milczarkowa, 80 years old, 1 person
Graczyk Jan, 43 years old 2 people Józefa, 70 years old
Kaczorowski Michał, aged 70 4 people. with him 3 people from the family
Krysiak Jan, 60 years old 3 people Wiktoria, 58 years old; Maria, 25
Sas Wojciech, 70 years old, 1 person
Jaruga Feliksa, 40 years old 4 people with her 3 people
Światek Józef, 43 years old 5 people Rozalia (unknown); with them 3 children
Witaszczyk anastazja, aged 48 1 person
Górski Józef, 36 years old 5 people Józefa, 36 years old; with them 3 children
Ponińska aniela, 25 years old 4 people Nowakowa (unknown name), 60 years old; With them 2 children
Wojcieszek Józef, 58 years old, 5 people with him, his wife and 3 children
Ponińska Feliksa and 2 children 3 people
Wojcieszek anna, 70 years, 1 person
Kowalski Michał, 33 years old, 2 people Feliks, 33 years old
Kowalska Stanisława, age 33 6 people with her mother Ballina and 4 children.
The witness' husband's name was forgotten by 3 people; wife from home was Kowalska Maria, 40 years old and 2 children
(according to the testimony of witnesses who came in August, Kowalski's children were also murdered in such a way that they were torn apart, Kowalska's head was cut off with an ax).
Malinowska Józefa and 2 children 3 people
Piotr Malinowski's husband testifies.
Józefa Malinowska with two children was cut with an ax, the murder took place on July 11, 1943. The names of the murderers – The local Ukrainians – Szakuła, Mykieta, Pyłypiuk, Kapryjan, Gnat, and there were also 2 unknown people, it seems like the ringleaders who came and murdered and then left.
The list is given according to the layout of the house in the village of Gurów – it will be easy to recreate the picture of accidents during an on–site inspection. This completely dry list shows that there are absolutely certain data as to the deaths of 163 people, including 61 children under 15 and 64 women – men over 15, 38 died. It follows that it was a mass murder of women and children. The aim of this was the complete extermination of the Polish population «up to the 7th generation», as the slogan was. The murderers were the local Ukrainians, with the influx of foreign elements from the neighboring villages – moreover, there were people from Galicia who acted as ringleaders.
Of 480 Poles, 132 (about 27%) survived. There are absolutely certain data about the deaths of 163 people (33.9%), it is not known what happened to the rest of the Polish population, i.e. about 185 people. For now, we treat them as missing. But basically it should be taken for granted that these people are 90% dead. This is indicated by the fact that after 17 July, almost nobody from Gurów came to Lviv (8 people who came later say that the village is completely burnt down and there are absolutely no Poles). Since, on the basis of our observations, we could conclude that villages stick together as much as possible and like to settle together even for a temporary stay, undoubtedly, if the rest had survived, they would have passed through Lviv to join their own people. Meanwhile, no one from Gurów came. In fact, today we can take it for granted that 70% of the inhabitants of the Polish village of Gurowa are dead – the figure is rather too low. among the survivors, a number of serious injuries, data: hospital in Sokal, hospital on Rappaporta and the clinic in Lviv”..

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

source: „1943, July - List of rescued and victims and an overview of the murder committed by Ukrainians in the village of Gurów in Volhynia, prepared at the RGO in Lviv”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 297— 307

Grzelak Adam – my grandfather was probably born in Wołyń, and his father came here in the years 1870–1880 from the Turkish county (I don't know the town) in Greater Poland. They settled in Gurów, in the Grzybowica commune in the Włodzimierz county, in the Zabłoćce parish. Grandfather Adam married Franciszka Piątek. Grandma's parents also came from Greater Poland, near Kalisz, but she was born in Wołyń in Dolinka in the Poryck commune. Her parents were Franciszek Piątek and Katarzyna Grabowska. They had four children. Unfortunately, they both died on July 11, 1943, murdered by UPA gangs.

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

source: Grzelak Marian, October 14, 2004 — web page: forum.gazeta.pl [accessible: 2011.07.12]

E. Siemaszko gives the number of 352 murdered Poles and 3 Jews.

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

source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939-1945”, in: Warsaw 2000

On the other hand, in Nasz Dziennik (No. 4 of 5–6 January 2002), in a conversation between Wojciech Wybranowski and prosecutor Andrzej Witkowski, head of the Branch Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation of the Institute of National Remembrance, there is information: „According to the findings of the prosecutors conducting the investigation, out of 480 inhabitants of Gurów only 70 people survived. – In all the accounts of the witnesses of those events the cruelty with which the perpetrators acted is significant. Everyone was murdered: women, children, the elderly, the sick and the infirm – says prosecutor Andrzej Witkowski”.

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

source: „Nasz Dziennik”, in: No. 4, January 5-6, 2002

It turns out that the then reports of the Lviv Home Army Command, which gave the number of 410 victims, were accurate.

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

source: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: ref. No. 203/XV/42, sh. 78—85

alina D.: „That evening my mother sewed a dress for me and for this reason she did not go to the hideout to sleep, which was constantly done due to the night attacks of UPA bands and the round–ups for labor in Germany organized by the Germans. When she finished sewing, she said that she was definitely not coming today and she went to sleep with me. However, fate turned out to be inexorable and the murderers of the OUN–UPA banged on the door at midnight. When grandfather Jan R. opened them up, they immediately shot him on the doorstep. Mom, hearing the shot and the groan of my grandfather, jumped out of bed and started screaming. I jumped out of bed too, ran to my mother and held on to her skirt. Suddenly, we both fell to the floor as Mom was hit by a bullet through a broken window. When the shots stopped, I called my mother and yanked her. Then I heard the voice of grandma Maria R.: «Don't call mommy, mommy is killed! aunt Danusia is also killed, look!». It was morning already. I looked around, saw my mother's youngest sister covered in blood, lying next to the weaving workshop, and Grandma sitting on the bed, also bloodied. Grandma said: «Go, alinka, to your uncle, just be careful and tell them what happened with us». I ran out of the apartment and, seeing that no one was there, I ran to my aunt and uncle, across the street. Uncle M. was killed in the kitchen, aunt Domicela dead, sitting leaning against the trunk and the wall, stabbed with bayonets or a knife. as I found out later, my aunt was asleep hidden in the barn, but in the morning she returned home, thinking there would be no robbery, and she found the murderers. after visiting my aunt and uncle's house, I ran to P. There I saw P.'s young daughter–in–law with the baby in her arms, they were both dead. Her father–in–law was dead nearby. I went back to my grandmother I told everything I saw. at her request, I brought a curtain from the other room that my grandmother had wrapped around her wounds with. I took a pillow and a baking tray with the previous day's baked yeast rolls and we went to hide in the grain behind the orchard. after some time, my grandmother's two sons who were sleeping in the attic above the stable, fifteen‑year‑old Florek and a little older than him, came to us. Grandma told them to bring a sheepskin coat so that they could lie on the ground. They ran towards the house, and in a moment they ran past us, chased by the Ukrainians on horses. When Grandma saw it, she said to me: «Run, alinka, and quickly run to your aunt Jadzia». My aunt lived in the Bogudzięka colony. I only had time to ask: «Grandma, what about you?». I hesitated, grandma said: «Run away, I will stay here with your mom and grandpa» and she fell on the pillow. I ran down the copper in a different direction than my uncles. While running to Bogudzała, I had to pass near the Ukrainian farm. a group of women and children stood there. They looked at the road along which the wagons with the stolen goods were driving, and the UPA gang was chasing a herd of cows. I entered my aunt's house unnoticed. There was no one in it. I ran further to the unfinished house of aunt Wanda J. There I saw my aunt's father–in–law covered in blood. I thought he was killed, but as it turned out later, he was only injured. I got scared and ran to Grandma W. in Witoldówka  […] While I was running through the fields, my uncle Czesiek noticed me, who was sitting on the lookout on a field oak  […] a group of Poles who survived the pogrom sat in the crops. among them, also aunt Wanda J. with children. at night, Uncle Czesiek went to bury my grandmother, who was killed by the Ukrainians, and Uncle Florek, who was shot during the escape. He buried them under a field pear tree  […] Grandfather, my mother aniela W. and aunt Danusia R. were not buried and nobody knows where their bodies are. Uncle Czesiek got a horse and a cart on which our group was loaded, and in the pouring rain, along dirt roads and through forests, we headed towards Sokal”.

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

source: Odonus Barbara, „Summer 1943”; in: „Card”, in: No. 43 /2004/

Natalia O. (born 1936): „When I awoke at three in the morning on July 11, there were six Ukrainian bandits in the apartment. Everything was broken, stuff thrown into the center of the room. The Ukrainians were constantly shouting: «Where is the host?». They beat my mother, demanding an answer. My mother knelt down and said that my husband had not returned from Romanówka. Then one of the bandits started shooting at her. She was hit by seven bullets and died on the floor in blood. Grandma Stanisław B., who slept with us that night, was also shot. Terrified, my sister and Ala begged to be spared. I wrapped myself in an eiderdown and shrunk my whole body. The torturer fired. A bullet brushed my temple lightly and pierced my left arm. I got a blow with the butt and I passed out. Ala was screaming, covering herself with her hands. Her right hand was shot she was beaten with a butt, she also lost consciousness. 17–month–old Jadzia was shot. I don't know how long the slaughter lasted. When I woke up, Al was sitting over me, covered in blood and red sheets. We got up and went to the house of our grandfather, Bolesław B., who lives some 150 meters away. Shooting was heard around. On the road, we noticed a wagon in which an armed Ukrainian was sitting. At the sight of him, we took refuge in a dense field of blooming poppies. When the car pulled away, we entered my grandfather's apartment. He was lying killed, and next to him his son Sigismud with his wife Wiktoria and their sons, Wacek and Leszek. Pharmacist H. and her daughter Giza were also killed – Jewish women who were hiding with their grandparents. (Nine‑year‑old Hałek H. escaped, wandered for two weeks and was shot by a German on a train.). From my grandfather's house we went to the apartment of the shoemaker W. There we saw the corpses: W., his wife and two children, Bolek (8 years old) and Adela (15 years old)  […] . We couldn't go any further, because we were noticed by a Ukrainian who was chasing a young man and shooting after him. We stealthily came back home and went to bed there  […] Then three women with rosaries came and took us”.

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

source: Odonus Barbara, „Summer 1943”; in: „Card”, in: No. 43 /2004/