During the mass, the Ukrainians closed the church, poured it with gasoline and set fire to it; all those gathered at the mass burned alive. Witness Zofia Direct: „Zofia Kierruj is now 85 years old. For fourteen years of her long life she lived in Volhynia. Looking from our western side, we would say right across the Bug. She says it was close to the river, about eight kilometers. Before World War II and during the war, until 1943, she and her family lived in Ostrówki in the Lubomelski county. It is the westernmost part of the former Volhynia voivodeship. She lived there with her mother Marianna Suszko and her siblings. Father Wincenty Suszko died early, in 1931. She had three brothers and a sister, Karolina, who was the oldest, born in 1920, brother Józef in 1924, Czesław in 1927, and she with her brother Antoni (they were twins) was born in 1929. The village of Wola Ostrowiecka was adjacent to Ostrówki. During the war, Zofia's eldest sister lived there with her family. These two places are mentioned today in one breath next to each other, when historians refer to them as places of the tragedy of the Polish population during the Volhynia massacre. Zofia Kieruj also told us about these events  […] What happened before August 30 of that year fades away a bit, mixes up a bit, but from that day on, the teenage Zofia begins to see such terrible things that are so imprinted in her memory that today she talks about them in detail. Anyway, very shocking. when historians refer to them as places of the tragedy of the Polish population during the Volhynia massacre. Zofia Kieruj also told us about these events  […] What happened before August 30 of that year fades away a bit, mixes up a bit, but from that day on, the teenage Zofia begins to see such terrible things that are so imprinted in her memory that today she talks about them in detail. Anyway, very shocking. when historians refer to them as places of the tragedy of the Polish population during the Volhynia massacre. Zofia Kieruj also told us about these events  […] What happened before August 30 of that year fades away a bit, mixes up a bit, but from that day on, the teenage Zofia begins to see such terrible things that are so imprinted in her memory that today she talks about them in detail. Anyway, very shocking.
It was the last Sunday in August. – The priest said in the pulpit that last Sunday The Ukrainians attacked during the mass near Hołowna, near Kaunas, closed the church and set it on fire. They poured gasoline and burned it, because these were wooden churches. They burned everyone who was there together. Father Stanisław Dobrzański told us that we should not be afraid and that he would not leave us. In case they attack us, we were supposed to defend ourselves. The faithful went home. Mrs. Zofia also”.

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: Konieczka Remigiusz, „Volhynia - wound not healed”, Zofia Kieruj's recollections; in: „Pałuki”, in: No. 24/2014, June 26, 2014 — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.03.30]

The UPA massacred the entire Polish population, several families; they threw the women and children into the well.

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