The UPA and the local Ukrainian peasants murdered 179 Poles, 4 Jews and 1 Russian during the night attack, using torture and rapes, and many families were burnt inside their houses. The village was surrounded and set on fire, the fleeing Poles were shot at. Those caught were tortured, brutal rapes of girls and women took place, chopped with axes, stabbed with bayonets and pickets, and cut with knives and scythes. Families, especially women and children, burned alive in their homes. Children's heads were smashed against walls, thrown alive into the fire of burning houses and farms. There were Dantesque scenes, the screams of the tortured, the screeching of children, the howling of dogs, the roar of burning cattle and horses in the barns. The Ukrainians called: „budem perekoluwaty – pity”. The hunt for the escapees and the search for those in hiding lasted all night. Many people burned to ashes. Many fugitives from the neighboring Polish villages that were being destroyed were found here. The self–defense group, despite the multiple advantage of the attackers' forces, managed to break through and lead about 500 people out of the colony. The escapees went to the estate of Zurne and Bereźny. During the escape, 1.5‑year‑old Mirosław Hermaszewski was carried by his mother. One of the Banderites shot her in the head close up and, thinking that he had killed her, ran on. When she regained consciousness, she began to run away again. In a neighboring village, some Ukrainian women took care of her. Then she realized there was no baby on her back. Mirosław's father and brother set out to look for his son. They managed to find the bundle with the child and save his life. Soon after, during a trip to his own field to Lipniki, Mirosław's father was shot in the vicinity of the heart and died. A group of about a hundred people, who did not manage to escape and hid in the drainage ditch, were surrounded and mostly murdered with bayonets, knives, axes, forks, etc. For several hours at night, UPA troops searched the fields and farms, finishing off the wounded. After the UPA had left, the remaining Poles collected the bodies of the dead and buried them in a common grave next to the People's House. The wounded were taken to the hospital in Berezne, some died there. A large part of the refugees was then deported to forced labor in Germany. After the UPA had left, the remaining Poles collected the bodies of the dead and buried them in a common grave next to the People's House. The injured were taken to the hospital in Berezne, some died there. A large part of the refugees was then deported to forced labor in Germany. After the UPA had left, the remaining Poles collected the bodies of the dead and buried them in a common grave next to the People's House. The wounded were taken to the hospital in Berezne, some died there. A large part of the refugees was then deported to forced labor in Germany.

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