We inform you that on November 30 this year. an armed gang attacked a settlement (colony) in Muszkatówka, Borszczów district. During the attack, the farmer Michał Pużyński, 23, was murdered. The bandits were shooting at houses and throwing grenades at houses.

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

source: „1943, December 5 - Letter from PolKO in Czortków to RGO in Krakow regarding the attack of an armed gang on the settlement of Muszkatówka in the district of Borschiv”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 73

[The Ukrainians] kidnapped 3 Poles, including a woman, into the forest and after being tortured. The following were murdered: Orłowski Wojciech, Pużyński Antoni, Ziobrowska Eugenia.

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

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

The Banderites dressed in the uniforms of Soviet soldiers arrested 6 Poles, took a Ukrainian to their apartment, stripped him naked, tortured, burned with fire, pulled out his nails and cut with knives; Finally, they dragged them into the forest and shot dead: 2 men and 3 women, one survived severely wounded. „In December 1944, around On 15th, an UPA sub–unit dressed in Soviet uniforms entered the village, pretending to be a field gendarmerie, and kidnapped 6 villagers, including: Gożdżałowa, Krawczyński, Sydomia Kruszwicka, Piotr Posyniak, Jan Tesarowski and me, who was the only survivor of the entire group. We were all taken to the apartment of a local Ukrainian, where a court was held over us. We were led into a large chamber, where the six–person judge panel of The Ukrainians was already sitting at the table. It was chaired by Paweł Matyjaszczuk, alias «Dorosz». at his command, we were stripped naked, our arms and legs were tied with barbed wire, and sliding lines were placed around our necks. Every slightest movement of his hands tightened the noose around his neck. In this position, the torturers interrogated us. During this time, we were beaten on our backs with sticks, our nails were torn out with pliers, and the skin on the body was cut with a knife. Chairman Matyjaszczuk personally burned the victims' bodies with the fire of a candle. If the tortured person lost consciousness, the torturers poured cold water over him and tortured him again. I was half alive from pain and exhaustion. I hardly felt anything anymore. Then Matyjaszczuk said, pointing to my person, give me this bird. The candle flame began to burn my hands. I felt a searing, excruciating pain seeping through my body. Through clenched teeth I said: Paweł! What have I done wrong to you in my life? Why are you subjecting me to such torments? I did not receive an answer. Matyjaszczuk continued to move the candle flame over my fingers and hands. I passed out. When I retrieved it, I was lying on the ground in a pool of blood mixed with water among the rest of the victims. In the vestibule of the chamber, I heard Matyjaszczuk giving the order to the commander of the execution group. He ordered us to be taken to the forest and shot there. I was then aware of the end of our lives. I began to pray fervently. In my spirit I was begging God for salvation, saying – Lord God, You can do everything. I was saying prayers all the way. Finally, the sleigh stopped. We were unloaded and thrown like logs at the place of execution. Faced to the ground. The execution started. One of the tormentors came up to me and shot me in the back in the vicinity of the heart. The bullet entered the collarbone area, without breaking bones. My desire to live dictated my behavior. I shuddered hard after the shot and then stopped, consciously holding my breath. Lying on the ground, I heard the group commander give the orders: «You two will stay here for an hour. If any of them show signs of life, it should be finished off with». after what seemed like an eternity to me, the sentries left. Somehow I was able to free my arms and legs from their bonds. I only checked if any of the shot were alive. Unfortunately, they were all dead. Bleeding out and completely exhausted, I trudged up to my sister's pen. She dressed my wounds, put on makeshift dressings and the next day drove me to the hospital in Borszczów. I was treated for several months. Despite the strenuous efforts of Polish doctors, I never regained my full fitness in my hands, after the burning received from the hands of «Pawlo Matyjaszczuk, the judge»”.

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

source: Kaleka Józef, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 530—531

[The Ukrainians] abducted and after torture murdered 8 Poles, including a mother and daughter.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Another relative (nephew) of my great–grandmother who was murdered by the UPA was: Lonio BRYTUN (unfortunately I know his name only in a diminutive form), murdered on October 18, 1946, in Muszkarówka in Borschiv county.

source: Dziewiecka Emilia, 17/07/2013; in: portal: stankiewicze.com — web page: www.stankiewicze.com [accessible: 2010.01.01]

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.26]