On the way from Brzeżany to Trościaniec, in the forest between Kotów and Trościaniec – on August 14/18 – he was arrested and then cruelly beaten, mutilated and murdered Antoni Śliwiński, 36, head of the forest inspectorate in Trościaniec (Brzeżany district).

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: Dłuski Stanisław, „A fragment of a great crime”; in: „Polish Forest”, in: No. 11, 1991

Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: on the road between the villages of Liliatyn and Kotów, they murdered the parish priest of the Kotów parish, Fr Władysław Biliński.

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]

On the road where Fr Bilińskiego: „The forester was also killed in the same place /? / A Pole returning home in a horse–drawn carriage, on August 30,”.

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: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: AK, 203 /XV/ 42, sh. 20—26

7.IX.43. Fr Władysław Biliński – parish priest from Kotów, Brzeżany. He was riding a bicycle and was mugged on the way. The body and the bicycle were not found, although the people working in the field witnessed the murder.

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

source: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: AK, ref. No. 203 /XV/ 42, sh. 20—26

source: Rusiński-Rola Zbigniew Ryszard, „The Brzeżany Triptych”, in: „In Raibow Colors” Publishing House, Wrocław, 1999, p. 38

H. Komański et Sz. Siekierka  […] give the date August 15, 1943.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; 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. 112

On September 8, 1943, on the Liliatyn–Kotów road, the priest of the local parish, Fr Władysław Biliński.

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

source: Węgierski Jerzy, „The Home Army in the Stanisławów and Tarnopol districts”, in: Krakow 1996, p. 209

Also: Biliński Władysław was murdered.

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

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

On September 8 this year. disappeared without a trace around 4 p.m. Fr Władysław Biliński, 38 years old, pastor of the Roman Catholic parish in Kotów, Potutory commune, district Brzeżański, during the return by bike from the fair in the Liliatyn parish, county Brzeżański, between Litiatyn and Baźnikówka. In the forest along the road, a trouser button belonging to priest Biliński was found, as well as traces of broken soil and plants that would testify to the fight against the attackers. Those working in the field saw the attackers jump out of the forest and, after a short struggle, pulled the man attacked into the forest.

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

source: „1943, September 12 - Report of the PolKO in Brzeżany for the RGO Delegate Leopold Tesznar on the murders of the Polish population in the Brzeżany and Podhajecki poviats”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/2, p. 89—90

See September 7, 1043.

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