In the Brenzberg forester's lodge situated on the crest of Jeleniowaty (Jasieniowa). SB‑OUN commanded by a clerk (Mikołaj Dudek „Osyp”) murdered 74 Poles, mainly women and children, refugees from across the eastern bank of the San. Alojzy Wiluszyński, almost twenty years old, belonged to a self–defense unit of a dozen or so, commanded by a second lieutenant of the Home Army from Turka. In view of the overwhelming number of opponents, a group of self–defense could only maneuver in a constant escape, trying to save their lives: „In the morning (August 18) we sneaked between the beech trees along the back of the Deer. The commander had some information to check with the forester in Brenzberg. We approached the buildings very carefully. There was silence all around, the intense buzzing of flies. We encountered the body of the dead man and suddenly it turned out that among the grasses and hedges more were still found. There were women, men, children. Nobody was killed with a firearm. It was hard to recognize someone you knew, many of them had to be outsiders. You could see the clergyman's cassock and foresters' uniforms. The bodies bore traces of cruel torture and bestial death. It must have been 2–3 days ago. Someone started to count the victims, someone started looking for shovels. The commander was hurriedly taking photos with a small camera, urging them to leave the crime scene as soon as possible, fearing that they would be provocatively accused. We counted 74 people. Someone shyly objected – he managed to count 75 victims. Not counted again. We said a prayer for the dead. Through forests, across the Roztok valley, we came to Koniarka near Halicz. There the commander disbanded the unit. Everyone was supposed to survive on their own”.

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

source: Derwich Antoni; in: Żurek Stanisław, „UPA in Bieszczady”, in: ed. II, Nortom publishing house, Wroclaw 2010, p. 236—241

From the recollections of Alojzy Wiluszyński, an inhabitant of Tarnawa Wyżna:
„The day came on August 15, 1944. The UPA staff was quartered in the manor house in Tarnawa Wyżna, and a German armored unit was located in the village. Kowpak (commander of the [Soviet] partisan unit) on that day left with the entire unit to the south. In Muczne, 74 people of Polish nationality stayed in the building we called the 'forest inspectorate', escaping the flood of repressions and the front line. The UPA, feeling unpunished, surrounded the building and killed all. There were many women and children there. Officers were tortured. Everyone seemed to have their heads chopped off. Finally, the UPA announced that the bodies should be left unburied for a week — to «warn other Lakhivs» (i.e. Poles)”

source: Jantoń Zbigniew, Szechyński Piotr (ed.), „Murders in Baligród”; in: portal: Your Bieszczady — web page: www.twojebieszczady.net [accessible: 2021.05.29]

The date of the murder is also given on August 16, 1944. Alfred Steinhardt, who then used Aryan papers under the name of Tadeusz Buczkowski, and worked as an accountant of the Tarnawa Niżna commune, states: „Many Polish families hid in Sokoliki, mainly railroad workers, forest workers and sawmills, and administration from nearby farms  […] When the front was approaching and German army units appeared on the road, and the railway station was attacked by Soviet planes, some Poles decided to hide in the mountain forests of a forestry friend. I witnessed carts with families with small children and elderly people leaving, I saw crying girls who did not want to go, and they were told that it would be safer there. After a few days, a 16‑year‑old forester's son appeared in Sokoliki with terrible news. The Banderites attacked the forester's lodge and murdered everyone except him. He was outside the forester's lodge during the accident and he managed to escape. After a few days, he could not stand it nervously and returned to the forest to see what happened to his family. He never returned to Sokolik. After some time, a Ukrainian peasant came to Sokolik, who warned against Banderites attacks and told that the s/o a forester was caught by the Banderites and murdered” after being tortured.

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

source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 1118—1119

It is not known whether this forester's lodge was located in Muczne.

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