The Ukrainians murdered Jan Sakowicz, a dairy janitor.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Ukrainians murdered at least 12 Poles. „In 1943, Tajkury, Kopytków and the surrounding villages became places of slaughter of the Polish population (Kopytków – June 15, June 17, June 18; Nowosiółki – June 18; Stefanówka – June 19; Tajkury – April 11, 1. V, 18. VI and 28. VI). According to the waste book of the Tajkura parish, kept by Fr Walerian Głowacz, 29 people were killed then  […] He added the following notes to the names of the buried parishioners: «murdered by bandits or murdered by Ukrainians». In July 1943, broken and ill, he left Tajkura, going to Zdołbunów. Later he was a priest in Nowogród Wołyński  […] I developed this list at the beginning of the years. 90 of the twentieth century at the request of Mr. Romuald Wernik, who published it in a modified form in his book: Romuald Wernik, «Tajkury – the village that used to be a city», London, 1997. A copy of the book of baptisms and deaths of the Tajkura parish from 1939– 1943 was given to Fr prof. Waldemar Witold Żurek, SDB, who published the information contained therein in his monumental work entitled «Lists of people from the parish files of the Lutsk diocese until 1945» (vol. VI, Lublin 2010, pp. 1105–1128). This was done to facilitate access to the archival book documenting the martyrdom of the Polish nation in Volhynia. We have prayed many times for these victims in Zdołbunów, Ostrog and Tajkury themselves. During the funeral services, we read the list of those murdered in Tajkury and its vicinity. We also organized two pilgrimages to Tajkury in the 1990s on August 10 from Ostróda and Zdołbunów. These pilgrimages were attended, among others, by clerics from Krakow: Piotr Janczy, Bolesław Karcz, Stanisław Molendys and Waldemar Szlachta. It was so until the SBU and the Dean, Fr Władysław Czajka from Równe, who suggested not to make noise around Tajkury. Scouts from Zdołbunów and young people from Poland have recently started tidying up the former Catholic cemetery and the church itself in Tajkury. Fr andrzej Ścisłowicz with parishioners in Zdołbunów cherishes the memory of innocent people murdered in Tajkury and the surrounding area. so it was worth organizing these unwelcome pilgrimages in the early 1990s ”…

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Fr Kovaliv Vitold-Yosif, „The memory of Tajkury does not die”; in: „A call from Volhynia”, in: No. 3 (112), May-June 2013 — web page: www.duszki.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

A Pole, Jan Sakowicz, was murdered by Ukrainians.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „A call from Volhynia”, in: No. 3 (112), May-June 2013 — web page: www.duszki.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

[The Ukrainians] murdered 5 Poles, including 4 women. „Local Bandera followers realized that Poles in this region had escaped from under the knife and caused a provocation in the village of Kopytków. In this village, Three families of my maternal cousins lived: Kowalacy, Gliński and Kralowie. A few days after their and other Poles had left for Zdołbunów, the Bandera followers posted appeals to the Poles to return. They said that such excesses were a great misunderstanding that Poles could return to their homes, that they were not in any danger from the Ukrainians. Some people fell for this provocation, including Aunt Glińska, her adult daughter with her husband, and two children a little younger than me. Fortunately, the head of the house, uncle Kowalak and their eldest daughter Wikta stayed with us. On the second or third night (June 17, 1943) a misfortune happened. Everyone over 12 was murdered, which is why my youngest cousins survived. We know the course of that terrible night from their accounts. Late at night, the householders were awakened by the crash of the broken door. The Banderites broke inside and hid or ordered to be covered with quilts. The adults, ie the aunt and her married daughter, were placed on the floor, and the lying people were shot at. It should be mentioned that the young woman was in the last month of pregnancy. After the shots were fired, they started to kill the lying people with bayonets, saying «moss and I will dip the bayonet in Polish blood». The cousin's husband was tried to be murdered in a slightly different way. The murderer turned him back to back and shot him in the direction of the head from the closest distance. Fortunately, he didn't hit right the bullet passed, ripping the cheek, causing heavy bleeding, giving the appearance of a lethal shot. On leaving the house, the murderers set the house on fire. The cousin in question, despite the bleeding, did not lose consciousness and crawled out of the fire zone. The children did the same. I don't remember how we found out about what happened. In any case, with the help of the Hungarian army, probably at the same time, we brought the remains of the burnt victims to Zdołbunów and organized a Catholic funeral for them  […] A few days after the funeral in question, a cousin from the same village of Kopytków — Kazik Gliński, regardless of the imminent danger, went to the village with his friend, because they had to get something from the village. They went and didn't come back, no trace of them left. To this day, it is not known under what circumstances were murdered”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Panów Kazimierz, „Zdołbunowo memories. Confession without a confessional”; in: portal: Volhynia, „My War Childhood” Foundation, in: 2001, vol. 4 — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.04.11]

Four Poles were murdered by Ukrainians: Józefa BIEGANIK, Stanisław KUBIAK, Wiktoria KUBIAK, Anna MACHOWSKA.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Fr Kovaliv Vitold-Yosif, „The memory of Tajkury does not die”; in: „A call from Volhynia”, in: No. 3 (112), May-June 2013 — web page: www.duszki.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

The Ukrainians murdered 2 Polish women, aged 23 and 42. Others: 2 Polish women were murdered by the Ukrainians: Rozalia Kowalak, nee Kral, b. 18. Oct 1901; Antonina Masiewicz.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Fr Kovaliv Vitold-Yosif, „The memory of Tajkury does not die”; in: „A call from Volhynia”, in: No. 3 (112), May-June 2013 — web page: www.duszki.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]