In the potato dungeon, the self–defense unit found the bodies of about 20 murdered Poles, moreover, the Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles in the colony.

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

The first family attacked in our colony was the family of Józef Garbaty. I remember one day in the morning people in our village were telling each other that Mr. Józef Garbaty was murdered for about 45 years. It was like this: at night, the Ukrainians came to his house and got inside, then they hacked him with an ax, hitting him on the head. Part of the brain was on the wall, I saw it myself as a child because my parents went there with other people to do something with that body and I ran after them. It was the first time in my life that I saw a dead man and it was so tragic. The body was lying on the bed, the head was split apart because my mother said they had collected it together. Myself, when I saw the body and blood on the wall, I ran away from there  […] The second Polish family murdered in our vicinity lived near our colony, but today, unfortunately, I do not remember exactly where, nor do I remember the name of this family. In our house, our parents told us that the house of this beaten family was attacked by some Ukrainian gang at night. At the time of this invasion, there was only a mother in the house with probably four small children, at least several of them. When the Ukrainians got inside the house, my husband was hidden on the „hill” (probably in the attic of their barn) and he saw and heard everything in person, and although he suffered terribly, he was not able to help them. Meanwhile, the bandits cruelly murdered everyone in the house, but I don't know how. But I was at the funeral of the victims, which was in the church, a lot of people came to this mourning service. We could hear crying and lamentation, everyone was saying over and over that they had killed an innocent mother with small children. I personally saw coffins and among them also small, and even one was so tiny. People very excited about what had happened kept saying among themselves this: „What did these children owe them, even this little one ?!” And they added: „Now we must all be on our guard, run away from home for the night, to Ustroń, to the dugouts, because this is waiting for each of us”. This funeral was probably in the summer of 1943 in a church located in a neighboring village beyond the forest.

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: Roch Sławomir Tomasz, „Recollections of Kazimiera Kowalczyk née Czerwiewiec from the Karczunek colony in Włodzimierz Wołyński county”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.04.06]

The Ukrainians murdered Józef Garbaty, 45, whose head was chopped off with an ax.

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

source: Roch Sławomir Tomasz, „Recollections of Kazimiera Kowalczyk née Czerwiewiec from the Karczunek colony in Włodzimierz Wołyński county”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.04.06]

Ukrainians murdered Poles living in at least 4 households, the number of victims has not been determined. „My name is Barbara Hypś. Jan Garbaty b. 1899 or 1900 mentioned in the book by E.W. Siemaszko, «Genocide». he was the second husband of my grandmother Weronika Bajek née Seliga  […] According to my aunt J. Garbata, he was murdered by a Ukrainian named Staruch, who was a neighbor. Grandma said he was hit on the head with an ax, while my aunt said he was shot (shot to the head). I found the date on the website on July 11, 1943, my aunt remembers that it was a warm day and the children were asleep at the time of the murder. He doesn't remember whether it was morning or evening. Grandpa was eating a meal with Grandma  […] According to the accounts of my grandmother and aunt, the Germans allowed the Poles to cross the bridge to the other side of the Bug, they gave them an hour. They could not take anything valuable with them. The cars were searched by Ukrainians while the Germans were just watching. Grandma moved to the house of Karol's uncle's wife, Zofia Stawicka, in the village of Hosynne. Unfortunately, the Ukrainians murdered Aunt Stawicki's father and her sister with a small child  […] My grandmother had a sister Władysława, brothers Bolesław and Antoni, their parents were Gabryjel Seliga and Franciszka née. Dlugosz. antoni, according to my aunt, was murdered by his wife, who was Ukrainian”.

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

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

At the beginning of December, the UPA surrounded and set fire to a Polish house, where two Polish families were burned alive. Nowakow and Waców, numbering 9 people.

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

The Ukrainians from the ULS unit and Ukrainian peasants from the village of Trościanka murdered over 30 Poles. They tied 22‑year‑old Józef Frankiewicz with barbed wire and drowned in the Ługa river; with axes they hacked the Różyło family of 5 and their children aged 7, 11 and 16; the Terebus family: a father, a 52‑year‑old mother who was gagged with a handkerchief and strangled with a string, and a 10‑year‑old daughter.

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

In the morning, the UPA band attacked our colony and its Polish inhabitants  […] When we were leaving our yard, it was only then that I saw the fire with my own eyes, which had already spread across my aunt aniela's house. There was also a terrible squeak from a cruelly tormented man, we did not know yet that they were murdering our uncle Ignacy, although of course we figured it out, but we were not able to help them then. How I remember today how violently my father urged the horse and how quickly we ran away  […] My aunt aniela Wenena, who survived the attack on their house, told me in person in our house after the war how Ukrainian torturers attacked them, it was like this: „The Ukrainians set fire to our house at dawn, when I saw the fire, I managed to hide in the dugout. It was such a makeshift shelter, meanwhile, my husband, Ignacy, did not manage to hide there because he was crippled and had one wooden leg. When the Ukrainians caught him, they immediately began harsh interrogations. I heard everything exactly, because my shelter was not far from them. The Ukrainian bandits, seeing that he was alone at home, started shouting at him clearly nervous: «Where are the rest of the family, where are your sons?» and then my husband, clearly scared, also shouted at them desperately like this: «I have no family, I have no sons. I am alone». They, however, apparently did not believe him, because they began to take revenge on him, first they broke his arms and then both his legs. So tired, half alive, they threw into the fire”.

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

source: Roch Sławomir Tomasz, „Recollections of Kazimiera Kowalczyk née Czerwiewiec from the Karczunek colony in Włodzimierz Wołyński county”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.04.06]

Siemaszko et Siemaszko  […] date the attack on the Karczunek colony on the night of February 14–15 and do not mention Ignacy Wenena among the 30 Poles murdered.

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

source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 842—843