Ukrainian policemen with an SS unit pacified the village for the stay of Soviet partisans of General Sidor Kowpak; they burnt 378 Czechs and 26 Poles alive and shot 132 Ukrainians.

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

At 7 o'clock in the morning, about 1,500 German troops marched into Malin Ukrainski, then into the Malin colony. They quickly surrounded villages and, under the guise of checking documents, drove everyone out of their homes. Those who could not go — bayonets did their job, forcing the household members to take the sick and infirm outside. All sent to the church, local school and barns. Then the buildings were doused with flammable liquid and set on fire. Anyone who tried to escape was immediately killed with machine guns, shot like ducks.
As Jaromira Nemcova Nicowa, the president of the Czech Volhynian Association, recalls, one of the eyewitnesses testified that a young girl ran out of the burning barn straight at the Germans, begging them for mercy. The Nazi impaled her on a pitchfork and threw it back into the barn. „They must have been heavily drunk, otherwise man is no worse than animals”.
Some witnesses suggest that Malin has fallen victim to ethnic conflict and intolerance. Others suggest that the German commander pacifying the village, asked for an answer, why Český Malin was pacified — replied: „It was a regrettable mistake, because originally only Ukrainian Malin was supposed to be burned for supporting the partisans, because a week before the massacre, the area of Malin was taken over by Soviet partisans, under the command of Sydow Kowpack”.
Polish historians Władysław and Ewa Siemaszko agree that „the original target of the punitive expedition was Malin Ukrainian and his Ukrainian inhabitants. It is not clear, however, why the torturers moved to Český Malin during the pacification”. The Siemaszko assume that the Ukrainian policemen involved in the crime, not wanting to kill their compatriots, directed the pacification to Český Malin.

source: „73th anniversary of the extermination of the village of Český Malin in Volhynia”; in: portal: Brzeg24.pl — web page: brzeg24.pl [accessible: 2021.09.18]

In the early morning, German units surrounded Český Malin and Ukrainian Malin. After the invasion of the village, the inhabitants of the Ukrainian part were gathered. Women, children and old people were led back to Český Malin, they were locked in barns and they were set on fire. The men were gathered together with Ukrainian residents in the local church, school and other buildings, where they were either burned alive or shot. 372 Czechs (more than in Czech Lidice), 132 Ukrainians and 26 Poles died in flames and salvos with machine guns. Only about 40 people survived from the entire village and they were chosen to transport stolen cattle and other property from the crime scene. The origin of the perpetrators of the massacre is not fully known. We only know that it was an SS formation from nearby Ołyka.

source: Zítek Adam, „Czech minority in Volhynia during the German occupation (1941—1944)” — web page: cejsh.icm.edu.pl [accessible: 2021.09.18]