[The Ukrainians] murdered 5 Poles (4 men and 1 woman): „a few moments later we saw the burning house of our neighbor Pańkowski and other burning Polish houses visible from the windows. as it turned out later, it was the beginning of the Bandera campaign against Poles in my village of Milowce. The stories told by adults showed that the Bandera followers dressed in Russian uniforms made a kind of selection before entering the village house, sending the Ukrainians home and keeping the Poles in the day room. My father and several other Poles (three or four) were led out to the bridge over the Seret River, which ran through our village, and were brutally murdered with axes. at the same time, when the fires of Polish families' houses were intensifying, the Bandera followers knocked on the door of the neighbor where we were hiding. I remember that my mother said to the neighbor «we are on your conscience» and the neighbor told us to immediately hide on the stove. On this stove dried corn braided into a kind of veil, and we hid there. To this day, I have this feeling that I wanted to fall asleep as soon as possible and not feel the pain when they would kill me. The Banderites made an excuse to the host that he did not open the door for them for so long, and he excused himself that the lamp would not catch fire because the kerosene was not good. When asked if he knew who was hiding Poles, he said that he did not know and made an oath on his knees. The next day, we didn't know what was going on with my father, the neighbor went out to the garden and said that our whole farm was burned down except the stable. at that time, one of the Polish neighbors was hurriedly leading a horse his mother asked him where he was going and he replied that he was running away from the village and was just going on the sledge. Mum asked him to take us too and he agreed and we went to Jagielnica with his family. There we found a roof over our heads in the Jewish ransacked «vacancy». On the way, we encountered many Poles, refugees from various villages, who, just like us, saw the only rescue in escaping to Jagielnica. after a few days it turned out that there was no chance of surviving because there was hunger, a piece of bread and a potato were of great value. In such a situation, the women agreed that the only salvation was to go to the village to bring back the potatoes that had been saved while being buried in the mounds. Several women (four or five) drove two wagons to the village in the hope that lonely women would be safe. They were allowed to sack some potatoes and leave the village. But behind the village an ambush awaited them. Only one woman managed to escape, the one who was leading the horse—drawn carriage, the rest of the women following the carts were murdered, including my mother. My mother was buried together with other women in the cemetery in Jagielnica, this cemetery has been gone for a long time. For several weeks, my father's body was seen on the dike in front of the water mill in Sereta in Milowce and we do not know his fate further”.

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

source: Wernikowscy Sławomir i Jarosław, portal: stankiewicze.com — web page: www.stankiewicze.com [accessible: 2010.01.01]

H. Komański et Sz. Siekierka  […] mention the murdered 5 Poles, but they do not record the murder of 3 or 4 women, including Katarzyna Wernikowska.

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

source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 191