[The Ukrainians] cruelly murdered a 17‑year‑old Polish postwoman Jadwiga Kutasiewicz in the forest.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

„Here are buried 170 inhabitants of the village of Niemilja who were shot by the Bourgeois Ukrainian Nationalists in 1943. Eternal memory of”. The inscription of the above content was placed on an obelisk erected in the 1970s on the grave of Poles murdered at dawn on May 26, 1943 in Niemilia by UPA militias supported by peasants from the surrounding Ukrainian villages. The attackers broke into houses, killing their victims with axes, knives and pitchforks. Some bodies were so massacred that they looked like shapeless masses. After the massacre, the village was robbed of its movable property and burnt together with some of the bodies. „126 people are buried in the mass grave. It is possible that these were not all the victims of the robbery. There were also many seriously injured”.

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

source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 273

In the interwar period, [Janina Paprota], having obtained the appropriate education, started working as a teacher  […] Literally on the eve of the outbreak of World War II  […] she was posted to Volhynia. She ended up in the town of Niemilia (Ludwipol commune, Kostopol poviat)  […] She was supposed to start working there on September 1, 1939  […] As a result of the Soviet aggression on September 17, 1939, Niemilia, as well as the entire pre–war Volhynia voivodship, were seized by the aggressor  […]
Four letters from Janina Paprota to her mother — Katarzyna, have survived. In the first of them, written on June 17, 1940, she mentions a fire at a school and several houses in the village a few days earlier, and the escape of local teachers who were afraid of Soviet deportations to the east. She also writes that this is the only thing she is afraid of.
The next three letters, from December 1942, were written in a completely different reality  […] The drama of the Volhynia reality of that period is evident in them. Janina, probably from December 1941, started additional work in the local administration. Therefore, in December 1942, she passed an exam in the knowledge of Ukrainian language and the history of Ukraine. As she writes, it was
„the death test, and on Sunday night on December 13, we were attacked by bands of peasants, armed Ukrainian plunderers. I experienced terrible moments that I will never forget, the host's eldest son in a hopeless condition was taken to the hospital, and the old man was beaten up so that he was barely panting. This is how the Ukrainian peasant builds a self–determining Ukraine — by cruelly tormenting Poles. I am mad with despair, we will probably never see each other again in this world, we face the fate of the Jews”.
 […] She predicted that she would not be able to see her closest family anymore.
„And a vile, rebellious Ukrainian peasant, thirsty for blood, is going to plunder, from the bloodied murdered bodies [will] peal clothes like the skin of a killed animal. Such a cruel fate awaits us all here, we will die miserably, innocently. The God, very angry, punishes us severely. I am writing in tears, despairing, after so many years of separation I was deceiving myself with the hope that the longed–for moment would come soon, that soon I would see my dearest Mother, my sisters, and now everything has become hopelessly lost, unless God grace stops punishing us so terribly and sends us His help. My God, God, how hard, how terribly hard to live, with fires and graves of innocent people all around us”.
Less than six months later, the prophetic vision came true  […] Probably on May 25 (some point to May 27), 1943, the village was surrounded by the UPA, and among them the attacked recognized also the inhabitants of neighboring villages. The slaughter began, which lasted during the day, despite the fact that the Germans were stationed in the town of Bystrzyce on the Służcza River, located 3 km away. According to the account of Janina Felińska Marciniak (also a teacher, from nearby Janówka): „They did not react to the terrible scream of burned alive and murdered in a Mongolian way. And we, Poles in the surrounding villages, listened as hypnotized to the screams of murdered people and cattle burned. A horrible night and a terrible morning! Everyone went with the Germans on an inspection to Niemilia. It turned out that the Bandera followers surrounded the village of Niemilia at night, then they chased all to a large barn and burned them alive. They also burned cattle. Whoever ran away was murdered with an ax, a pike, a knife. The survivors were dying in terrible torments, calling for help, rescue, for vengeance — to heaven. An indescribable terrible sight”.
In total, 116 people were murdered in Niemilia that day, and 48 were injured. The victims were buried in a mass grave in the village.
Katarzyna Paprota learned about her daughter's death from a letter from Fr Rostkowski, the parish priest in Bereźne. „Madam, I would like to inform you that Janina Paprotka, probably your daughter, died tragically, along with many inhabitants of the village of Niemilia, on May 25 b. And was buried there in a common grave”.

source: Krzysztofik Marcin, „Terrible fate awaits us”; in: „Nasz Dziennik”, in: Historical supplement, July 8, 2020 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.05.30]

Józefa Felińska Marciniak: „On May 27, 1943, innocent Polish blood was shed in the next mass murder of Niemilia near Bystrzyca. The village is only 3 km away from the Germans stationed in Bystrzyca. The Germans were armed, they also had telephone communication with the military unit in Berezne. They did not respond to the terrible scream of burned alive and murdered in the Mongolian way. and we, Poles in the surrounding villages, hypnotized, listened to the screams of murdered people and cattle burned. a horrible night and a terrible morning! Everyone with the Germans went on a vision to Niemilia. It turned out that the Bandera followers surrounded the village of Niemili at night, then they chased them all to a large barn and burned them alive. They also burned cattle. Whoever escaped was murdered with an ax, a pike, a knife. The survivors were dying in terrible torment, they called for help, rescue, for vengeance to heaven. an indescribable terrible sight. The Germans filmed and photographed. The boys from Janówka, who came here in the morning, lifted the cut, naked people to a standing position and the Germans took photos. apparently, they used these photos to their propaganda that these were the effects of the Soviet partisans. Moans, screams, pleas of the wounded urged for a hurried help, which could not be organized. There were only wooden carts without ladders. On the road there was a mother clinging to two small children, hugging with both hands, pressed to each other. a cross was pierced on her bare breast. Small children also had a cross punctured on their little breasts”.
Stach Bronowicki continues: „The worst view was Hanka Misiewicz – an exemplary bridesmaid, the most beautiful girl in Volhynia, with a great dignity of a Polish girl. Her father and brother Tadeusz jumped out of the window and, hidden behind a currant bush, heard the course of the murder. She was murdered by Grisza of Bystrzyca, a contemporary, he spoke Polish beautifully, known among young people. First, in the presence of Hanka, he fucked his mother, then he stripped Hanka naked, stood with his shoe on his chest and said with a raised ax: «you are a wonderful girl. Everyone loves you and I love you too, but you are a Pole and you must die like Pole»… and he slammed. He chopped the flesh from the thighs of both with the hatchet, penetrated the head from ear to ear… Hanka was still wheezing. He cut his throat with an ax. The Germans photographed standing upright. Many still whined – with their tongues cut off, eyes gauged out, many begged for death… Some survived”.
„Seven carts full of seriously injured were collected and, without the help of a doctor, the Germans, supposedly helping, transported them to the hospital in Berezne. Who of them survived? However, many witnesses remained. Large pits were dug for the grave of the inhabitants of Niemilia, which became the village cemetery. They put a cross in this cemetery”. Franciszek Żygadło reported years later. „116 people were murdered and buried in a mass grave in the burnt village. 48 people were injured. among the victims, apart from the inhabitants of Niemilia, there were 6 people from Jakubówka Mała, who fled from their town after the first attack on May 3, 1943. The list of victims murdered by the Ukrainians during the attack on Niemilia was established by Bolesław Żygadło, a former resident of Niemilia, in consultation with his father, mother and 10 former inhabitants of this town, it can be found in the magazine «Na Rubieży» No. 47/2000”.

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

source: Marciniak Józefa Felińska, „My land of Volhynia”

source: Szarwiło Bogusław, „May 1943. I witnessed an attack of UPA gang”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.04.11]

On May 24, 1943, 170 people were murdered in the village of Niemodlin in Kostopol county [note: prob. refers to Niemilia village].

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

source: prof. dr hab. Filar Władysław, „Volhynia in 1939-1944”; in: Wolak Tadeusz (ed.), „Before the Operation Vistula, there was Wołyń”, World Association of Home Army AK Soldiers, in: Warsaw, 1997