The UPA massacred 36 Poles in a cruel way, eg Józef Senda was baked in a hot bowl. „We spent Easter 1943 in Kiverce with the Rykowski family, who only moved there from Johanów. To what extent their decision to flee from there was right, we already saw on Easter Sunday. We were just sitting at the Christmas table when their former gamekeeper came and said that since Holy Saturday Johanów has been occupied by large groups of Bandera. They probably came to send Christmas to the Poles living there in their own way. Although we felt sorry for the plundered, or maybe burned, Johanow, we were all glad that the Rykovskis and other Poles had left on time. Only after returning home we found out, terrified that early on Easter Sunday, three peasants from Armatniów went to Johanów to collect rabbits left unattended by their friends. Day after day passed and the boys did not return. The hope that they had changed their plans at the last minute and were partying somewhere in the neighboring village was finally dissolved when the junacy from Baudienst found Adam's blue armband in the forest as a railway worker. It was already certain that they were in Johanów, and if they had not returned so far, then they were dead. Now the families, half mad with despair, were concerned only with finding the bodies and burying them properly. Mr. Zielke, the head of Baudienst, a German from Poznań, who was very kind and helpful to the Poles, came to the rescue. Under reinforced security, the juniors working on the transport of wood went to Johanów. In the palace, count. Jezierski, they found bloody documents of nine Poles – including the wanted men from Armatniów. The documents were in nine different rooms, which meant that each of the murdered was tortured separately by a separate group. The search continued, time passed and the bodies were gone. Finally, one of the junaks noticed that a fire was smoldering in the previously closed tar factory. Intrigued, he stabbed his bayonet at the smoking charcoal dump and that's how they found them – all nine. The bodies were brought in a wagon drawn by two horses. Mrozicki, Adam's father, was walking from the forest, holding on to the loose wagon. Seeing both of us and his mother running out of school, he said: «Adaś is no more, Mrs. Manager». He cried, and we cried with him. Mr. Mrozicki had three daughters, Adaś was his only son, we all liked him, he was only 17 years old, he was healthy and he was brutally tortured. In the evening, at Edek's house, where both boys were cruelly mutilated before their deaths, all Poles gathered to pray the rosary for the dead according to the custom”.

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

source: Krawczyk Barbara, „The bitter country of childhood”; in: „My War Childhood” Foundation, in: 1999

Maksymilian Kominowski, b. 1912 employee of the forest district office, was murdered by the UPA.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; 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]