Władysław Szyndler, a member of the Polish self–defense, was killed in a fight with the UPA patrol, and another was wounded.

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

The UPA massacred over 200 Poles and wounded 27 people, robbed and burned over 180 farms, the village ceased to exist. „They murdered people in horrible ways. They stuffed small children on pitchforks and threw them alive into the fire, and burned adults in their own homes or drove them into a barn and set fire to” there.

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

source: Dul Helena Alicja, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 426

The bodies of the dead were buried in three large pits in the corner of the cemetery. Over the years, the ground above the corpse collapsed. The pits of the earth are now traces of the graves of these people. Today there is no longer a cross on the graves, a sign of their faith. There is only a plowed field on the site of the village.

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

source: Krupska Emilia, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 438

According to the UPA report, 330 people were killed, including 295 men, 30 women and 5 children; no own losses were recorded. On the next day, the German unit took the surviving inhabitants to Rohatyn. „On Thursday February 17, 1944 at at 6: 45 p.m. Ukrainian terrorists attacked the village of Ludwikówka near Bursztyn, inhabited entirely by the Polish population. The attackers encircled the village, set up machine guns on its four sides and began to light the farmyards. The attackers left a sleigh nearby, and they were dressed in Russian, German, Polish and ordinary clothes, among them there were also some women. Some of the attacked people tried to escape into the forest, others hid in the cellars, but these suffered a tragic fate because they were mostly suffocated. When the attacked ones ran out of their homes, the attackers shot them with machine guns. as a result of the surprise, numerical and technical advantage of the attackers, the attacked only in sporadic cases defended themselves with work tools. In this situation 82 people died from bullets as a result of asphyxiation, 12 people were seriously injured and a few slightly injured. among the dead, almost an equal number are male, female and child victims. Patro Michał defended himself against the attackers, but they broke the door, dragged the household members into the yard, shot them, and then piled 6 people of this family on a pyre and set fire to their bodies. Korbecki August, a bachelor, hid in a stable under a manger, from where he was taken and stabbed to death. after this accident for 4 more hours. he cried out for help in a shrill voice. at one point, the terrorists approached the house of the watchmaker Trojniar Józef. One of them began to call out, however, so as not to set fire to this building, because a watchmaker lives in it, so there are watches in it. This was heard by one of the women – the forward – who shouted to the speaker: «What do you need those Polish watches for?». as a result, they set fire to the house of Trojniar. During the critical night, a Ukrainian, Niżniak Dymitr and his family, was also staying at the manor in Ludwikówka, the attacked started to show a Ukrainian identification card, but the attackers did not realize and killed him and his family. about 900 Poles fled to Rohatyn, mostly barefoot or in slippers, and because the Ukrainians from the Bursztyn commune do not want to issue them Recognition Cards, most of them apply for a trip to the Reich”.

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

source: „1944, February 23 - Protocols written in PolKO in Brzeżany on Ukrainian attacks on the Polish population in the Rohatyn district. Protocol written with Kochman Wojciech, 24, a construction technician from Ludwikówka, commune rural Bursztyn, pow. Rohatyn. In Brzeżany on February 23, 1944.”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 77—78

Last day on 18.II. The large Polish village of Ludwikówka [Rohatyn] was burned to the ground, where, according to reports, about 300–500 people died, and from 100–200 young people and children were to freeze while escaping at night.

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

source: „1944, February 21 - Letter from PolKO in Stanisławów to the Director of RGO in Krakow containing a copy of the memorial on the security of the Polish population”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 289—291