The murdered were: „Maków Justyna (Ukrainian), wife of a Pole and her three sons (the youngest was 3 years old)”.

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

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

On Christmas Eve „Ukrainian military policemen fatally shot Marian Hutnik «Kubłyk». The wounded man was taken to prison, where he died, probably killed. It happened in front of the church in Krościatyn. The poor man was going to his mother, bringing her dried mushrooms for Christmas Eve. The funeral took place on the first day of holidays”.

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

source: Fr Isakowicz-Zaleski Tadeusz, „Christmas Eve in the Borderlands”; in: „Gazeta Polska”, in: December 24-31, 2009

On Christmas Day, „on December 25, 1943, a Polish boy, NN”, was shot for no reason by a Ukrainian policeman.

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

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7

The Banderites murdered over 156 Poles (136 in the village and 20 at the railway station); the UPA raid was led by Pop Pałubicki and his daughter. The pop in the sermons said that „for killing the Lakhs in creating a free Ukraine, sin will not be”. A few examples of how Poles died. 18‑year‑old Franciszek Białowąs: they chopped off his head with an ax; Kazimierz Czubakowski, 22: they chopped off his head with an ax; 9‑year‑old Tadeusz Hołodowski: strangled; 24‑year‑old Stanisława Hutnik: strangled and burned; Józef Hutnik, 25: hacked with an ax and burned; 39‑year‑old Anna Jarosz: strangled; 9‑year‑old Maria Jarosz (daughter of Antoni): strangled; 13‑year‑old Maria Jarosz (Józef's daughter): strangled; 10‑year‑old Józef Jarosz: strangled and burned; 54‑year‑old Anna Jarosz: hacked with an ax; Tadeusz Łużny, 75, hit with an ax; 12‑year‑old Jan Łużny: strangled and burned; Antonina Łużna, 42: chopped with an ax and burned; 14‑year‑old Anna Łużna; chopped with an ax and burned; 10‑year‑old Józef Łużny: hacked with an ax and burned; 1–month–old Stanisława Łuzna: burned alive; e.t.c.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 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. 155—157

29.II. there was an attack on Korościatyn, Buczacz county, the village was burnt, about 100–200 people were to be killed. 14–16 farm workers were used to set fire to the village. At the Korościatyn station, some of the railway staff were killed, namely: the head of the Ostropolski station, Stanisław–Wowczuk, replaced the traffic on duty, the switchman Łużny and Ukr [rainiec] Pyszyn, and the headmaster of the school from Korościatyn Głąpal Tadeusz and Wojciechowska Jadwiga the teacher.

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

source: „1944, March 3 - Fragment of a letter from PolKO in Stanisławów to the RGO Delegate in Lviv concerning the murders and attacks on Poles, as well as the location of refugees and the methods of providing aid”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 307—309

The body of a local teacher was especially massacred. She was found scalped, with a severed torso and a severed jaw. The same happened in Volhynia with this tearing of the mouth, where the bandits made fun of the victims: „You have Poland from sea to sea”. Immediately after the raid, a punitive expedition arrived and confiscated all the geese and chickens in the village.

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

source: „1944, March - Report on the wave of Ukrainian murders that engulfed the Galicia District from mid-February 1944”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 121—123

Jan Zaleski, author of the Chronicle of Life, writes: „On the night of February 28–29, 1944, the Bandera followers began the slaughter of the inhabitants of Korościatyn. «started harvesting» simultaneously from three sides, three exit roads, from Wyczółki, from Zadarowo (Ukrainian village) and from Komarówka. There were three specialized groups: the first «worked with» axes, the second robbed, the third systematically burned house after house. The slaughter lasted almost all night. We heard terrifying groans, roar of cattle burning alive, shooting. The antichrist himself seemed to be beginning his activity! The slaughter in Korościatyn was carried out by a UPA unit, supported by the local Ukrainian population, armed with axes, scythes, pitchforks and knives; 600 people in total. a trick was used, aniela Muraszka, later a nun, relates: The Banderites attacked at 18th, that is, when the guards were just dispersing to their posts. a Ukrainian woman who married in Korościatyn revealed this. She also revealed the password that the guards used. The attackers rode into the village by sleigh, shouting in Polish that they were partisans and that the boys from the village would gather around them. They wanted to kill them as much as possible. after a while they attacked and the slaughter began. Using the element of surprise, the railway station was first seized, where the telegraph wires were cut and the station staff and people waiting for the train were murdered. Then they murdered, robbed and burned the farm by the yard. Even 12–14‑year‑old boys took part in the group that set fire to houses. Samoobrona, initially surprised, put up desperate resistance, which saved most of the inhabitants. One of the Ukrainian commanders, the s/o a priest from Zadar, was killed during the attack on the rectory. The fighting stopped only in the morning, when a Polish partisan unit stationed in Puźniki, 12 km away, came to the rescue. about 150 people were murdered during the night slaughter, of whom only 78 were identified. The whole village was burned down, only the presbytery and the church survived. Jan Zaleski recalls: In the morning my parents went to the ruins of Korościatyn and then told stories that made their hair stand up. For example, bandits burst into the Nowicki apartment in a former inn. P. Nowicki, a pre–war salesman in the shop of agricultural Circles, managed to sneak out behind the house at the last moment. The wife, leaning over the crib of a few months old child, was cut down by the Banderae with an ax, and with an ax he split the head of Basia's several‑year‑old daughter. The same Nowicki got a confusion of his senses after all this and walked with the surviving baby in his arms, constantly saying something about his beloved Basia. The neighbors fed him with the child. The murdered were buried on March 2, 1944 in a common grave in the Korościatyn cemetery. Holy Mass the funeral was celebrated by Fr Mieczysław Krzemiński”.

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

source: Fr Isakowicz-Zaleski Tadeusz, „The Holocaust”; in: „On the Oder”, in: No. 1—2/2011

To the Polish Aid Committee in Warsaw. We can't see any help from anywhere. We Poles, here in the borderlands, from the Stanisławów and Tarnopol districts, are dying at the hands of the Ukrainians. Thousands are already murdered. Murdered, but how. whoever has not seen with his eyes will refuse to believe. Hordes of Ukrainian nationalists attack Polish settlements, armed with machine guns (automatic machines), grenades and other weapons; and here begins the terrible work – they murder the completely defenseless. They use firearms only when someone wants to save themselves by escaping. Not a day goes by without some 100–200 people being murdered in the Stanisławów Province. They murder horribly women and small children, not to mention men. Recently, particular places have been burned simultaneously with the murder, e.g. on February 28 this year. all Poles were murdered in the town of Korościatyn [Buczacz], and all houses were set on fire. This is the last event (yesterday). They murder defenseless people with axes, knives and other tools, and when they murder, you can imagine the faces of the murdered people, they are cruelly distorted (I was an eyewitness and I saw murdered Poles in Słobódka near Bołszowice). I will give a few examples of the bestial abuse and tormenting of defenseless people, children and women, which took place in the Stanisławów region in various places. In the village of Meducha near Halicz [pow. Stanisławów] there is a pond behind the village, there were found four children tied together with barbed wire and drowned, they were children (aged 8–10) from a neighboring village, where the whole village was murdered three days ago and burned down. (probably the village of Boków – footnote, S. Ż.) Another example from another town, for a few hours they murder them with axes and knives, and spend others in cellars (mostly women and children), pour gasoline on everyone and set them on fire. The village is on fire. they grab toddlers and babies and throw them into flames. Or they throw them into a sack (4 little girls, 1 one‑year‑old, 2 two‑year‑olds and one three‑year‑old, and so tied in a sack throw them into the fire). Or the four children in the sack are stabbing with knives. In Słobódka, for example, babies are nailed to the walls. In other places, they cut open women's stomachs and poured boiling water into the interior. Making iron white and sticking it in your mouth, burning your eyes, cutting off your ears, hands, etc. All this is true, not a fairy tale. I myself am a fugitive from the countryside, I am now an ordinary railway worker, I can hear and see a lot. And there are those in your part who have fled from here, but this is only a very small amount, everyone cannot, conditions do not allow. Shall we all fall from haidamak knives? Compatriots! Poles save us. Influence there on the German authorities, let them help us, let them help us, let them stand up for us. Soon they will start murdering in larger cities, and we are defenseless. Who murders, I have already said, Ukrainians, and these are their local people who have lived with us for so many years. They are guided by their own intelligence: priest–priests, teachers and others, they pushed the masses, they worked on it, this is their work. Save because they will murder us all. Jan Kaciński. Soon they will start murdering in larger cities, and we are defenseless. Who murders, I have already said, Ukrainians, and these are their local people who have lived with us for so many years. They are guided by their own intelligence: priest–priests, teachers and others, they pushed the masses, they worked on it, this is their work. Save because they will murder us all. Jan Kaciński. Soon they will start murdering in larger cities, and we are defenseless. Who murders, I have already said, Ukrainians, and these are their local people who have lived with us for so many years. They are guided by their own intelligence: priest–priests, teachers and others, they pushed the masses, they worked on it, this is their work. Save because they will murder us all. Jan Kaciński.

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

source: „1944, March 18 - A letter from Jan Kaciński from Stanisławów addressed to the RGO in Kraków, sent to PolKO in Warsaw to be used in talks with the German authorities. It depicts the atrocities of the Ukrainian nation against the Polish population in Galicia”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/2, p. 45—48

Suchecka Anna was murdered by the Ukrainians on her way to the mill in Zadarów.

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

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7