Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: „On August 15 this year. the Polish family of the Laskowski” family was murdered in Kryłów.

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: No. 1049, p. 193

The Departmental Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation of the Lublin Institute of National Remembrance resumed an investigation against Piotr Marcych, who was to, inter alia, committed crimes as an officer of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in 1943. Marcych is suspected of committing the murder of Bronisław Skowyrze on September 30, 1943 and against the marriage of Edward and Józefa Wojczuk on October 1, 1943. Marcych then served in the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police. He was to commit the crimes against his victims because of the Polish nationality of those killed.

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

source: „The Institute of National Remembrance in Lublin resumes an investigation against the Ukrainian criminal”, February 24, 2015; in: portal: kresy.pl — web page: kresy.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

The Departmental Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation of the Lublin Institute of National Remembrance resumed an investigation against Piotr Marcych, who was to, inter alia, committed crimes as an officer of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in 1943. Marcych is suspected of committing the murder of Bronisław Skowyrze on September 30, 1943 and against the marriage of Edward and Józefa Wojczuk on October 1, 1943. Marcych then served in the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police. He was to commit the crimes against his victims because of the Polish nationality of those killed.

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

source: „The Institute of National Remembrance in Lublin resumes an investigation against the Ukrainian criminal”, February 24, 2015; in: portal: kresy.pl — web page: kresy.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

The UPA attacked a column of Polish refugees from across the Bug River and cruelly murdered about 30 Poles, mainly women, children and the elderly, as the young managed to escape.

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

The UPA murdered 57 Poles, including 49 civilians and 8 militiamen – they abducted and cruelly murdered Stanisław Basaj „Rys”, the former commander of the BCH unit. „In the early hours of the morning, a unit of the UPA arrived in Kryłów, which occupied the village and set up posts on its outskirts. UPA members dressed in the uniforms of the Soviet Army approached the Civic Militia Post. They misled the MO officers by pretending to be Soviet soldiers escorting the alleged detainee, who was Piotr M. Acting in error as to the identity of UPA members, the MO officers let them into the station's rooms  […] The perpetrators introduced Major Stanisław Basaj, pseud. «Rys», commander of the Peasants' Battalions from World War II, detained in one of the houses in Kryłów. He was placed in the corner of the room, his coat and shoes were removed, and then he was bullied by hitting his face. The perpetrators of the MO officers lying on the floor and tied up took their clothes and shoes off. Then they executed them, killing 17 militiamen with firearms. The wounded were killed. One of the officers who survived recognized four perpetrators by name and surname, among them the aforementioned Piotr M., who was the most active among them. In the area of the village, including in the premises of the station, UPA members murdered 28 civilians in Kryłów, depriving them of their lives with shots from firearms. Wagon wagons, driven by forced Polish farmers, onto which the perpetrators loaded the detained, tied inhabitants of Kryłów. On one of the carts, Major S. Basaj  […] UPA members shot six carters, one managed to escape. The cart, where Major S. Basaj was present, turned into one of the forest roads in an unknown direction. This is the last available, direct account of Major S. Basaj, who, as it appears from later reports, heard by individual witnesses, was for some time held by UPA members in conditions that offended human dignity. Previously mutilated, he was brutally murdered in an unknown place  […] The county Commander of the MO in Hrubieszów, Dąbrowski (real name: Chil), began to include men from the Ukrainian population, previously created by Maj. S. Basaj, to include MO posts. Several of them, assigned to the MO Post in Kryłów, were absent from Kryłów, on March 25, 1945, during the murder of the policemen and the civilian population of this town. In connection with the above–mentioned events and their circumstances, one of the investigative versions established in this case assumes that in order to get rid of Major S. Basaj and disperse his faithful units of the Peasant Battalions, NKVD and UB, they used the criminal activities of the UPA in the Hrubieszów district. It was inspired by an appropriate action – the murder of the policemen and inhabitants of Kryłów – arranging and carrying it out, controlling its implementation and a series of actions and omissions after its implementation”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „investigation into the murder of 17 officers of the Citizens' Militia and 28 civilians, carried out on March 25, 1945 in Kryłów, province Lublin by members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Lublin, in: October 17, 2003