Bronisław Grabas, 20, was kidnapped by a UPA militia, who went missing.

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

Banderites from sotnya „Burlaki” under the command of Ivan Semczyszyn „Czarny” and Ukrainian peasants from SKW from neighboring villages, in the number of about 500 attackers, robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered mainly 92 Poles with axes, knives, bayonets and other tools, from babies to A 100‑year‑old old woman; and 13 The Ukrainians and 1 Russian; at least 106 people in total; mainly women and children, as men were called up to the 1st Army. „Throughout the night and the next day, the surviving people of Łozowa found the bodies of the murdered. Each victim had deep and extensive wounds inflicted with an ax, pitchfork, bayonets or knives. Little children were torn in half. Women had their eyes torn out and their breasts and hands were cut  […] During the Banderites' attack on Łozowa, there was no organized defense in the village. Most of the men served in the Polish Army at that time and fought on the front with the Germans”. .

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

source: Markiewicz Maria, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 843

The front at that time stood on the Vistula River. „That critical night, numerous groups of Bandera followers, armed with firearms, axes, bayonets and knives, rode in carts and surrounded the village. These groups consisted of men and women  […] Within almost an hour, most of the buildings were set on fire and plundered, and about 130 people were murdered, and about 60 were injured. The division of labor was noticed in the actions of the attackers. Some groups, mainly men, forced their way into the apartments, broke doors and windows, and murdered them, most often with the use of axes and knives. The second group robbed and loaded the stolen property onto carts. The third one set buildings on fire and shot at the escaped. The attackers were ruthless, they did not spare anyone's life. The outcome of the robbery was appalling. Most of the women, old men, and children were hacked with axes or stabbed with bayonets or knives. House walls and floors, beds, all splattered with blood. There were children with their heads split open or completely cut off, the infants were killed by hitting their heads against the corners of the beds. Several people fought death and died after a few hours  […] Then everyone realized that the Soviet authorities tolerated the rampant terror unleashed by Ukrainian chauvinists. Anyway, it was for them, because it solved the ethnic problem of these lands”.

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

source: Stocki Paweł, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 854—855

Among the attackers, The Ukrainians from the neighboring villages were recognized: Kurnik Szlachciniec, Stechnikowiec, Czernichowiec and Szlachciniec. In Paweł Kozioł's house, the UPA killed his mother and beat his wife, who was Ukrainian by origin. Koziołowa fell and covered the child with her own body, saving his life and pretending to be dead. While lying down, she noticed Ukrainian women accompanying the UPAs, plundering the room; one of them was her own sister. In the home of Władysław Makuch, 5 people were murdered, including a 6–month–old infant, by grabbing their feet and banging their head against the door frame. After a few hours, a Soviet armored train arrived at Łozowa, illuminated the village with rockets and opened fire on the UPA; at the same time a detachment of Soviet soldiers came from Zborów. In this situation, the UPA unit broke the raid and retreated to the forest, abandoning some of the loot.

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

source: Hryciuk Grzegorz, „UPA actions against Poles after the re-occupation of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Red Army in 1944”; in: Libionka Dariusz, Motyka Grzegorz (ed.), „Anti-Polish operation of the OUN-UPA 1943-1944. Facts and interpretations”, State Archive of Lviv Oblast, in: DALO, 5001/2/32, Warsaw 2002, sh. 74

The murdered were buried on December 31, 1944 in a mass grave in the church square. Panic broke out at the funeral; the frightened crowd moved towards the Soviet post on the railway bridge. Confused soldiers fired shots at the runners, which killed Wojciech Grabas, who was also buried in a prepared joint grave. In the 1980s, the mass grave of the victims was moved to the cemetery in nearby Szlachcińce. On the grave, the Soviet authorities placed a plaque with a star and an inscription in Ukrainian: "Co–inhabitants of the village who died at the hands of Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists." Around 1991, the inscription was removed from the plaque. In 2008, a new monument to the victims of the crime in Łozowa was erected at the cemetery in Szlachciniec. Karolina Łagisz, who was barefoot and in a shirt, she stood hidden behind a pile of 4 – 5 hours and heard how her family was murdered: grandma, mother and sister with children – she says: „I do not know politics there, I do not reach far, to Kiev or Lviv. I forgive my close neighbors, including those within a radius of 10 km, for the wrongs they have suffered, for the murder of my relatives, and I do not hate them. I would also like to apologize to them, but I really don't know what for. So I turn to good neighbors, those closer and from Szlachciniec and Kurniki, and others from Bajkowce, Rusinków, Biała, Czystyłowy, Stechnikowiec, Czernichowce, Dubrowiec: tell us how many people in you Łozowians have been murdered, maybe someone has been robbed or otherwise harmed, maybe they have been robbed apples in the orchard or eggs in the henhouse? Maybe it happened during the Austrian partition, maybe during the Sanacja Poland, or maybe you have suffered some kind of harm from the Home Army? For now, I am sorry that I am alive, that your one son missed the target and the other one did not recognize me and took me for his. Forgive me also for the fact that I cannot forget the tragic voice of the murdered mother and the sight of Sabine with her little daughters sitting as if someone had placed them for a photograph. It exceeds my” strength.

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

source: Łagisz Karolina, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 840

Jan Kanas, in his book „Podolskie korzenie”, Lublin 2002, lists the inhabitants of the village of Łozowa murdered and died as a result of wounds received during the UPA raid on December 28/29, 1944, including 108 names. All names include the age of the victims; Pawełek Makuch was six months old and Maria Gajowska was one hundred. This list was compiled by the author, giving: victims under the age of 17 – 22, including 10 men and 12 women, from 18 to 30 – 15 killed, including 4 men, and 11 women, ranging in age from 31 to 50 – 30 victims, including 11 men and 19 women, and over 50 years old were 41 victims, 17 men and 24 women. So out of 108 victims, as many as 66 were women.

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

source: Kanas Jan, „Podolski roots”, in: Lublin 2002

The Ukrainians murdered a Pole and his Ukrainian wife, refugees from the village of Szlachcice.

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