„The Ukrainian insurgents” murdered 2 Poles: 10‑year‑old Tadeusz Gołębiowski was strangled with wire and 18‑year‑old Zofia Bartosiewicz, whom they raped and cut off her breasts.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The UPA and the local Ukrainians (including children and women) slaughtered about 600 Poles (probably much more), burned down about 100 houses and the chapel. Christ the Savior. They murdered with axes, pitchforks, tied them to trees and set fire to them, burned alive in houses, etc.
The witness of the crime, Janina Orłowska–Łasek, writes in the memoirs  […] :
„At midnight, from all the forests surrounding the estate and the quarry buildings, a cannonade of shots from small arms and machine guns began. The Ukrainians surrounded the entire estate and, systematically moving it, watered each building with kerosene or gasoline, then set fire to it with tar torches from the side of the entrance. They threw grenades through the windows, they shot at the escaping people, whoever they caught, they killed with axes or pitchforks. There were many attackers — it was later calculated that for each house there were 8–10, including Ukrainian girls. Incredible terror, screams and tumult prevailed  […]
Residents who did not manage to leave their homes, in extreme horror, hid with their belongings in the basements, hoping that the fire would not penetrate into the foundations. Almost none of these people survived. The heat and smoke were so great that they were suffocated, burned to coal, or roasted. Even Dantesque scenes have begun. When the fire flared up, it was not so much you could see, but hear the screams and groans of people, the howling of burning cattle, the roar of flames and gunfire — all indescribable  […]
The state of siege and massacre lasted until dawn. About four in the morning, German reconnaissance planes arrived and circled over the burning estate. Perhaps these planes scared the attackers, they started to withdraw, the shooting stopped.
Whoever escaped came out of hiding. These people, having nothing to come back to, began to gather by a dozen or so of surviving houses. Many of them were only in their nightwear. Dirty, scared, cut and burned. Different clothes were chosen for them to somehow clothe them. Food was also shared so that they would not be hungry  […]
There was a tragic sight around. Houses and trees were burnt, the suffocating smell of burning and the stench of burned human and animal bodies lifted up”.
Another witness, Janina Pietrasiewicz–Chudy, describes:
„My father, as he knew both German and Ukrainian (he managed the buildings, he employed Ukrainians, he was even liked by them, he used to attend weddings and baptisms of his employees), he was an interpreter, I adhered to his pants and I've seen the biggest tragedies. I remember small children impaled on stakes on Aleja Spacerowa. Whole families lying in bushes with knives in their backs, my girlfriends burnt  […]
When the shots stopped, the wounded were first taken care of and placed in Blok. The sight was terrifying: some black, burned, others mutilated and splashed with blood, lay side by side on the bare floor, groaning in pain, begging for help or a sip of water. One nurse who remained alive was helpless in the face of so many injured people, the lack of drugs, even those that relieve pain. The help was limited to giving water.
I don't know if it was the 'good' heart of the Germans, or maybe the fear of God, or maybe something completely different was the reason why the wounded were taken to Kostopol in military cars on the same day. I was in one of those cars. I remember how the bandits hidden behind the trees were shooting at us, even though the cars were marked with a red cross. Childhood anxiety is only two words, but to this day it has not left me. When I'm driving my car at night, I don't know when I slide down from my seat and listen to the whistling of bullets.
The survivors dug one very long grave where the cross stood. It was a place intended for the construction of the future church. I remember that grave. This terrible 'heap' of human bodies, burned and murdered, including women and children.
According to various sources of literature available to me, the number of murdered from 900 to 2000 people is given”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Orłowska-Łasek Janina, „Short history and tragedy of Janowa Dolina”; in: „Information Bulletin of the 27th Volhynia Division of the Home Army AK”, in: No. 3/1996

source: Pietrasiewicz-Chudy Janina, „Children were impaled”, Volhynia slaughter: Bloody crime of the UPA in Janowa Dolina; in: portal: GP24.pl, in: 11/12/2007 — web page: gp24.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

Janowa Dolina is now called Bazaltowoje (it was a basalt mine).
Wanda Wasilewska recalls: „Stryjek gathered everyone and fled to the forest. They hid in the trenches that remained after the First World War. The Ukrainians were returning through the forest. One of them caught on a blackthorn and stumbled. He saw those in hiding and started calling for companions. Uncle shouted: – Save yourself, who can! – He caught Henryka and Janek, two older children, and ran towards the nearby rushes. Aunt Aniela then had an eight–month–old daughter, Alicja, at her breast. Krystyna grabbed her aunt by the skirt and they started to run away. They didn't get far. They got them. One of them grabbed Alice by the legs and smashed the child against a pine tree. All this was watched, hidden in the rushes, by Władysław and the other two children. Please imagine! They saw it and couldn't do anything! All they have left is to refrain from screaming. They caught up with Krystyna right after that. They split her head in half with an ax, and stabbed her aunt in the heart with a bayonet, and so she was slowly dying in front of her uncle. The family of my second aunt, my mother's cousin, burned alive in their house. Only two of the six children survived. They escaped to a potato field. They lay hidden there and listened to the screams and screams of the burning family. Our neighbors were thrown into a well alive. I saw my neighbor's body with her breasts cut off. And when we had to run away, we hid our whole family in a nearby pond. We stood in the water and I remember my mother's words. She said that if it was necessary, she would drown us, because she would not let those criminals cut her children alive”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Jaszak Marcin, „Sagas of the Lublin Region: To this day I remember the taste of the cake I had at Marianna's, the daughter of an SS officer”; in: „Lublin Courier”, in: November 22, 2013 — web page: kurierlubelski.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

The attack on Janowa Dolina was led by Ivan Lytvynchuk „Dubowyj”, who after the slaughter reported that „had completed the” task, so he carried out the order of the OUN leadership. The Ukrainian population was prepared for propaganda for the commencement of the slaughter of Poles in Holy Week. Dissolved all kinds of prophecies and „oracles”. In the vicinity of Janowa Dolina, the Ukrainians talked about „Easter eggs painted with the blood of Poles”. A prophecy was written on the pages: „In April the sky will be fiery, in May the sun will set red, and in June and July the water in the rivers will flow with blood”. Jan Engelgard in the article „Skandal w Janowej Dolinie”, published in „Information Bulletin 27 DWaK” No. 3/1998, wrote: „Thanks to the efforts of the borderland communities and Poles living in the Rówieńska region, on June 18, 1998, an over 5 meter cross – an obelisk was unveiled at the site of the tragedy. at the last moment, the Ukrainian contractor of the monument removed, without the knowledge of the Polish side, the date of April 23, 1943, leaving only the inscription: «In Memory of Poles from Janowa Valley». During the blessing of the monument, about 50 activists of the «Ruch» organization demonstrated, holding banners with the inscription «Won, Polish policemen» and «Won, SS minions». The weekly «Wołyń» (June 19, 1998), published by nationalists, triumphantly reported: «On Thursday, June 18, near the village of Bazaltowoje (Janowa Dolina, Kostopolski region) Ukrainian patriots did not allow Polish chauvinists to hold a ceremony dedicated to the unveiling of a monument in honor of German policemen of Polish origin destroyed by UPA units ‹Piwnicz› in 1943»”. In „of the self–contained Ukraine”, in its territories sanctified by the martyr's blood of the Polish population, the old rizuns, their children and grandchildren once again gained voice.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Sheaf (a young woman in high pregnancy, her name unknown), was burnt alive in a barn together with other Poles near Janowa Dolina or in Polanówka. date unknown. 1943. Marianna Pietrzykowska, widow of Antoni Pietrzykowski and Snopek Stanisław, murdered near Janowa Dolina or Polanówka. She lives in Kol. Polanówka. community Derażne. Szabelska Barbara – a few years old girl and her little sister with an unknown name. Place unknown, but in the Derażne commune. They lived in Kol. Polanówka.

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

source: Stefaniak Janina; in: portal: stankiewicze.com — web page: www.stankiewicze.com [accessible: 2013.07.11]