Fragment of Josyf Żarek's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Lachawa by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„From January 1 to 6, the same fate befell several other villages, i.e. Łomna, part of Dobra Szlachecka, Jamna, where [soldiers of the Polish Army] also burned and killed.
On our Christmas Eve, UPA troops attacked Bircza, from where all these attacks came from. When our units were preparing to attack, we knew that they were going to certain death, because Bircza could not be easily captured. Nevertheless, they did not care about death, because they wanted to take revenge for our harm. More than half of the boys in our branches did not have their own villages, their parents and families. Everything was burnt and smashed. In the morning of January 7, our soldiers had to withdraw from Bircza, and two commanders: 'Konyk' and 'Orski' fell. And the Poles dragged our men imprisoned in the cellars and shot them to [be] able to count them among the murdered Banderites. Then they killed Petr Sywyk, Ivan Kokitka and Mykhailo Zariczny from Lachawa.
Only the eldest remained in these cellars, who had to bury their fallen  […] Two weeks after the funeral, the Poles released these old men, but they were so hungry that on the way home Josyp Wasyliw died in a ditch just behind Stara Bircza. Petro Szczurko died at home”.

source: „Spohad Josyfy Żarki (diwocze prizwyszcze Zariczna) narodżenoji 1923 roku w Lachawi Sianićkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 395—400

source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]

Fragment of Josyf Żarek's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Lachawa by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„When the [Polish] army came, it was impossible to be outside, because they could kill immediately. This is how the Poles shot Kokitka Andrija: in the field during the harvest.
During the harvest in 1945, the Polish Army gathered all the inhabitants in the barn of one Pole and looked for suspects. I was there too. They took a few men with them and took them to Rzeszów. Then they released them, but Teodor Gbur was shot on the way home”.

source: „Spohad Josyfy Żarki (diwocze prizwyszcze Zariczna) narodżenoji 1923 roku w Lachawi Sianićkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 395—400

source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]

October 25, 1945, typescript — Excerpt from the communiqué of the National Leadership of the Zakerzonya Region from August–September 1945:
„On August 19, 20 and 21 [1945], Polish army units terrorized and robbed the villages of Lachawa and Dobra. They beat people, even completely old 70‑year‑old women, small children, completely destroyed 4 houses, raped 6 girls, killed 2 farmers”.

source: „Informacija pro polśko-ukrajinśke protystojannia na Peremyszczyni”; in: Wiatrowycz W. (ed,), „Polśko-ukrajinśki stosunky w 1942—1947 rr. u dokumentach OUN ta UPA”, in: Lviv 2011, vol. 2, p. 892, in: orig. Ukrainian

source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]

During the burning of the village Lachowa n. Kuźmina, after the Ukrainians were resettled, they murdered 5 Poles.

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

A maneuvering unit of the 28th Infantry Regiment came across the village of UPA „Jara”, which retreated after several hours of fighting, losing 3 to 7 soldiers. After the retreat, the soldiers of the 28th Infantry Regiment shot 9 residents near the school, including a 14– and 15‑year‑old boy. The army also burned down the school and most of the village. A dozen arrested residents of Lachawa were sent to the detention center in Bircza, where three of them were killed on January 7, after the 3rd UPA attack on Bircza, and buried in the pit with fallen UPA soldiers [1]. Two people were beaten so badly that they died on the way back to Lachawa.

source: „The crime in Lachawa”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Excerpt from the situational report of Petr Kawuzy 'Taras', the political clerk of the OUN 'Chłodny Jar' district, on the murder Ukrainians in Lachawa by Polish Army soldiers:
„On January 1, 1946, the Polish Army stationed in Bircza, numbering about 300 people, at 2 in the morning, rushed to the village of Lachawa, where the sotnya 'Jar' was quartered  […] Sotnya, under heavy enemy fire, retreated into the forest  […]
[The Polish Army] began its bloody dance in the village. At that time, they took 7 Ukrainian farmers, aged 40‑80, from their homes, and shot two young boys of 16, each and everybody near the school. They threw one of the shot hosts into the fire. Here are the names of those shot:
Mykhailo Sywy, 58,
Petro Zariczny — 45,
Jewhen Dowbusz — 16,
Osyp Żurko — 14,
Petro Zahorodnyk — 45,
Petro Zahorodnyk — 45,
Wasyl Marko (thrown into the fire)”.

source: „Wisti z terenu [za styczeń 1946]”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 451, in: orig. Ukrainian

source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]

Fragment of Josyf Żarek's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Lachawa by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„Before the new 1946, a sotenny 'Jar' stood at our place for a few days, which disregarded the matter and did not put up sticks on Horba, so on January 1, 1946, the army surrounded our Lachawa, leaving the exit only to a clear field uphill. It was morning, the countryside and the sotnya were asleep. When the terrible shooting began, the sotnya had to withdraw. It was only possible through this open field where 7 shooters fell. Lachawa was left without defense and the military did what it wanted. He caught barefoot men and shot them near the school, among them my father. His name was Petro Zariczny, then he was 45 years old. Others: Petro Zahorodnyk, 45, Mychajło Wysocki, 72, Mychajło Wasyl, 46, Iwan Sywyk, 40, Iwan Fenyk, 46, Edward Dowbosz, 15, Josyp Szczurko, 14, Wasyl Wasyliw, 65, whom they shot near their house on fire. He was buried in Kreców and the rest in a common grave on the spot where they were executed.
Later, many men and cattle were rushed to Bircza. They took Petr Wasyliwa after the shooting at the school to guard the cattle, who later told me about the execution process. My father was driven to the school by the last one, covered in blood, because he was severely beaten before he was shot. Eventually they made him run, and when his father took a few steps, they killed him with a burst of automaton. In addition to the bullets, he also had a stab wound to the head from a bayonet. Then they got on with the others. People waited calmly for death, but the 14‑year‑old boy Josyp Szczurko began to ask the soldier aiming at him with a machine gun that he was an orphan, his father died of consumption, that he was a Pole, although in fact he was Ukrainian. He lived to see such mercy: the executioner did not shoot him, but hit him with the butt so that his brain splashed on the walls of the school. The school, in general, where they were shot, was covered in blood”.

source: „Spohad Josyfy Żarki (diwocze prizwyszcze Zariczna) narodżenoji 1923 roku w Lachawi Sianićkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 395—400

source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]

Fragment of Josyf Żarek's memoirs about the murder of Ukrainians in Lachawa by soldiers of the Polish Army:
„In the fall [1946] the army from Sanok killed 15‑year‑old Mykhailo Morozyk in his house”.

source: „Spohad Josyfy Żarki (diwocze prizwyszcze Zariczna) narodżenoji 1923 roku w Lachawi Sianićkoho powitu”; in: Huk Bogdan (ed,), „1947 Propamiatna Knyha”, in: Warszawa 1997, p. 395—400

source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]