In col. Julianka belonging to the village of Toporów and in the village of Stołpin, county Radziechów: „Stanisława Bernacka was born on February 6, 1938 in Julianka, which was a colony of Toporów. Stanisława's father – Mikołaj Chrzan was born in 1911. in Wicyń, in the Złoczów county, in the Tarnopol voivodship  […] The family tragedy took place in March 1944. Stanisława's father, along with his son Jan and his friend Maciej (he does not remember his name – note by a. Sz.), Went to his neighbor, Olech, to spend the night in the basement, fearing the Banderites. a Ukrainian horse patrol caught them on the road, right next to their family home. «My mother and siblings, we stood at the gate of the house and saw everything. First, the Bandera followers searched and threw the tattered coat on my brother. Then they put guns to his head and killed him, and then Maciej. They both collapsed on the spot, one on the road and the other on a nearby field. The brother started running towards the house and screaming in horror that his father had been killed. Our mother in a panic took us all and hid us in a dungeon made by our father in the backyard. When we were hiding, at the last moment one of the bandits saw my mother entering the hideout. The UPA set fire to all the buildings: the house, the stable, the farm buildings and the barn. They robbed the cattle. Dry potato haulm was lying on the dungeon hatch, it began to smolder, and the smoke slowly entered the hiding place. He choked us, but the mother took us half–conscious only in the evening and put us in a pit on mounded potatoes, covering the murdered father with a coat. The dungeon made by my father had no other option, but was equipped with a mattress, bed, pillow and quilt. Everything is burnt. Sparks fired everywhere and the glow was visible from a distance». The next day, Maria Chrzan wrapped her husband's body in a sheet and buried it in the yard next to the house. The desperate family was taken care of by a certain Dziadura, who took Maria Chrzan with four children in a wagon to nearby Stolpin. after a few days, the Bandera followers dug up the body of Mikołaj Chrzan and took it to the forest «so that the Pole would not stink on their land». at night in the forest, wild animals tore his body apart. Maria did not live long with her children at Dziadura's. Stanisława remembered a baby carrier suspended from the ceiling, in which the hostess put one of the six children to sleep. after a week, the Bandera followers showed up in Stołpiny. «Old Dziadura was doing something at the mound when a UPA unit suddenly arrived. a cloud of dust trailed behind them. Me, my siblings and my mother saw everything through the window. They started firing glow missiles at him, but he cleverly escaped them into the woods. The five and seven of us Dziadurs were led out through the yard and the stable to the field, where a low green winter was growing. There they ordered everyone to lie face down on the ground, and then began firing machine guns in series. I felt as if the whole earth was walking with me. I was terribly afraid, but I lay silently motionless by my mother's hand. The bullet mom got convulsions so one of the torturers came up to her and kicked her in the back said ‹are you really alive?›. I was completely covered in her blood, but not a single bullet hit me. Brother Janek was killed with two bullets, and the sister, who was blonde and had blue eyes, died from a bullet that shot her head near her eye. So I lay next to the corpses all night until morning. at night, dogs came and began to bite the dead. Dziadura gnawed the hands of the youngest child and injured others. They did not bite me under my mother and I survived this cruel tragedy safe, without any wounds». In the morning, Stanisława Bernacka got up from the ground and went home to get a blanket to cover herself against the cold. Dziadura did not burn the house. after the tragedy, Dziadura came from the forest. «He was tearing his hair out of his head and very much despairing. It cannot be described. In one moment both of us lost our entire families». The man took me to the neighbors, where they gave me food, and he started breaking 2 wooden boxes. Then he dug two pits in the yard under the windows of the house and put in them the packed boxes with the murdered families. «This was the funeral of my family»  […] Stanisława and Dziadura left for the town of adamy, where the majority were people of Polish nationality. There the man left a girl who would go from house to house, staying with strangers. Sam probably left for Germany”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Szymczyna Arkadiusz, „Stanisława Bernacka - tragic childhood”; in: „Borderlands Information Service”, in: No. 6/2012

H. Komański et Sz. Siekierka  […] state that Julianka belonged to the village of Stołpin, and the above–mentioned the crimes took place on 7, 10 and in mid–April 1944.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 323