The forester Józef Nowakowski was murdered by the Ukrainians.

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

The mutilated corpses of murdered Poles, including those tied with wire, were fished from the Styr River. And: „I saw with my own eyes a dozen or so people, Poles, being driven near Lutsk. There were a few women there, some in serious condition. People had their hands tied with barbed wire. At the far end was a boy about twelve, a hunchback. They were chased all over the city to jail by Ukrainian and German szucmen, and later shot in the courtyard and thrown into the” prison well.

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

source: Gaweł Bolesław, „Years of wandering”, in: Olsztyn 1977, p. 155

The Ukrainians murdered 10 Poles, including 4 women. And: In the vicinity of the city of Lutsk province. Volhynia and her house burned Helena Witaszczyk and her 9–month–old daughter.

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

After the Ukrainian lawyer Czerewka was denounced, the Germans shot three Poles: Cezary Falkowski and his two sons, Mieczysław and Julian.

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

On the road to Lutsk, [Ukrainians] murdered 2 Poles: 48‑year‑old Engr. Władysław Krzanowski with his 26‑year‑old daughter Janina Krzanowska, a teacher whom they raped before her death; the bodies of the victims were thrown into a well.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

In the waters of Styr there was a body of a boy, about 10 years old, nailed to boards.

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

In the suburbs, they murdered several Polish families with axes, hammers, pitchforks and saws.

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: Gaweł Bolesław, „Years of wandering”, in: Olsztyn 1977, p. 151

The Ukrainians murdered the family: Maria Łozińska with her daughter, her husband and children.

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]

The Ukrainians murdered Alina Helena Mazurek.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

In July or August 1943, he was arrested on the basis of the testimony of a Ukrainian agent, Boldyński, that he was „president of the” military organization and that his trace was lost, Engr. forester Baczyński.

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: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]

On the way, according to the information of the employees of the Diocesan Curia in Lutsk, Fr Piotr Walczak „was attacked by the Ukrainians on his way from Ławrów to Lutsk and brutally murdered”.

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

source: Dębowska Maria, Popek Leon, „Clergy of the Lutsk diocese. Victims of the war and repression of the occupiers 1939-1945”, in: Lublin 2010, p. 162

Ukrainian policemen murdered Czesław Siekierzyński.

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

Józef Kilian, 57, died in defense of the Polish population.

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]

As a result of reports from Ukrainians, the Ukrainian criminal police (Ukrainische Kryminalpolizei) arrested 50 Poles, mainly intelligentsia, 30 of whom were later shot.

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]

In the suburbs of Krasne, the UPA murdered 16 Poles, including 6 people known to Fr Bishop Adolf Szelążek, whom they harassed.

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

On Christmas Eve, the UPA and Ukrainian peasants attacked Poles during the Christmas Eve supper, murdering them with axes, knives and other tools; they used torture and rape, smashed children's heads against walls and pillars; in the suburbs of Hnidawa, they murdered 57 Poles (some of them burnt together with the church), in the suburbs of Wólka 24 Poles, in the suburbs of Krasne 16 Poles. Here, in one house, they spread the dismembered offerings on plates of the Christmas Eve supper. A child was also found in a blanket with numerous knife wounds. On Rówieńska Street, they murdered 7 Poles and a Ukrainian woman with 2 „children for the” punishment for setting up a Christmas tree during a Catholic holiday. There were many more victims, incl. The 18–person Pszczółka family from Sienkiewiczówka and other refugees from the nearby villages, furs and colonies;.

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

source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 660

source: Gaweł Bolesław, „Years of wandering”, in: Olsztyn 1977, p. 151

Another wartime Christmas of 1943 was approaching. The Christmas Eve table was modest. There was no fish, no cheese dumplings, only potatoes, and only borscht with dumplings made of cannonball mushrooms tasted like it used to be. During the night we were awakened by a shooting. They were shot somewhere near the city's outskirts, in Barbarówka. We were convinced that it was the Germans who were cheering for Christmas; there were also their barracks on that side. Reassured, we returned to bed, and in the morning we were shocked by terrible news. The Banderites attacked the suburbs of Lutsk, where most refugees from Polish villages took refuge. They cruelly murdered dozens of people, including our friend Witka with the baby. We were there for the rosary, but what I have learned I do not want and cannot, even after so many years, describe. In some houses, the Bandera followers left cards announcing an equally bloody New Year  […] Immediately after the New Year, the funeral of the attack victims took place. Countless crowds of people were walking, carrying coffins made of straight, unplaned boards, often double, as a sign that the mother and the baby were lying. Wikcia and her little child had such a double coffin. Father Bukowiński delivered a sermon over the open mass grave, saying goodbye to both those who he was about to bury in a moment and those who were not allowed to rest in the blessed ground: drowned in swamps, burned or simply abandoned in the forest. Many years have passed and I still cannot forget this funeral. that the mother and the baby are lying. Wikcia and her little child had such a double coffin. Father Bukowiński delivered a sermon over the open mass grave, saying goodbye to both those who he was about to bury in a moment and those who were not allowed to rest in the blessed ground: drowned in swamps, burned or simply abandoned in the forest. Many years have passed and I still cannot forget this funeral. that the mother and the baby are lying. Wikcia and her little child had such a double coffin. Father Bukowiński delivered a sermon over the open mass grave, saying goodbye to both those who he was about to bury in a moment and those who were not allowed to rest in the blessed ground: drowned in swamps, burned or simply abandoned in the forest. Many years have passed and I still cannot forget this funeral.

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

source: Krawczyk Barbara, „The bitter country of childhood”; in: „My War Childhood” Foundation, in: 1999 — web page: www.mojewojennedziecinstwo.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

In Lutsk, people lived in fear that what would happen again, when the Russians came again, so many Poles under arms. Oh what will it be? But you have to have a gun, because there are sounds of The Ukrainians that there is a raid on Lutsk, people from the suburbs would also go with horses who were supposed to spend the night to downtown, because Lutsk was much larger and more extensive than Horochów, so that it could all be surrounded by CKM. This is also how people got tired of coming and going, the same thing overnight, until the Christmas Eve came. They thought that they would stay home, because it is Christmas Eve, maybe they will leave people alone. What a big mistake it was, just on the eve of the Ukrainians organized an attack on Lutsk with a bandit horde, there were so many „hadas” Ukrainian that they reached the cathedral, because they were most concerned with getting the cathedral and the entire dormitory around the cathedral. Then they would have taken over the whole of Lutsk. Poles fought bravely in the center that the bandits had fled by morning, but they took revenge on those who stayed at home on Christmas Eve. They murdered a lot in a shameful manner. My cousin from Górka Pałąki was tormented so badly that they cut his whole belly and he died, and they shot his son. They took care of these two Poles, the wife and three children ran away to grain far from home and survived until morning. In the morning they came to Lutsk without anything, just like they were standing. And a lot of people fled as much as they got messed up, they mucked up before creating a field kitchen, before where they got what they got into that kitchen, they got sick. My cousin from Górka Pałąki was tormented so badly that they cut his whole belly and he died, and they shot his son. They took care of these two Poles, the wife and three children ran away to grain far from home and survived until morning. In the morning they came to Lutsk without anything, just like they were standing. And a lot of people fled as much as they got messed up, they mucked up before creating a field kitchen, before where they got what they got into that kitchen, they got sick. My cousin from Górka Pałąki was tormented so badly that they cut his whole belly and he died, and they shot his son. They took care of these two Poles, the wife and three children ran away to grain far from home and survived until morning. In the morning they came to Lutsk without anything, just like they were standing. Well, a lot of people fled as much as they got messed up, they mucked up before creating a field kitchen, before where they got what they got into that kitchen, they got sick.

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

source: Wolf Józefa z. d Zawilska, „Memories”; in: portal: Volhynia pages — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

At night, on the eve of Christmas 1943, UPA bands attacked the village of Gnidawa, located near Lutsk. They murdered the population, some were burnt in the church, some in their homes. Great–grandfather Felicjan came there in the morning, the houses were still on fire, he helped save people. He recalled with horror the picture of destruction and bestiality made by the Ukrainians.

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

source: Litwinowicz Rafał, „Save from oblivion”; in: „Borderlands Information Service”, in: No. 6/2013

The village of Gnidawa appears in the book by W. and E. Siemaszków as a suburb of Lutsk called Hnidawa.

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

Rena went to the forest on the first day of Christmas 1943. As she was leaving, in the suburbs of Lutsk, she saw the monstrous sight of the broken head of a small child on a telephone pole. It was her first encounter with the bestiality of Ukrainian nationalists  […] Regina says that the image of a broken child's head never left her all her life. As she walked to the ward, she heard wolves howling in the woods on the way, but it was all nothing compared to that monstrous memory she was taking on the road.

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

source: Jarosiński Dariusz, „The man must be okay”, recollections of the Home Army liaison officer Regina Jezior née Wieliczko from Horochów; in: „New State”, in: No. 7/2013

Moreover, the UPA hanged 50‑year‑old Franciszek Pilarski in the city park.

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

The Ukrainians in Ukrainian police uniforms detained 6 Poles: 4 men and a woman with a child; the men were murdered after several weeks of torture.

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

NKVD arrested the quiet Wacław Kopisto and the cadet. Julian Baczyński, when they transported the supplies for 27 DWAK in 2 carts.

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

source: Kopisto Wacław, „Cichociemni's way to the Kolyma camps”, in: Volumen Publishing House, Warsaw, 1990, p. 126