[The Ukrainians] abducted 4 Poles, including a 20‑year‑old girl, who went missing without a trace.

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

The UPA from „Hałajda” murdered about 300 Poles; in the fight against the Home Army, the commander Taras Onyszkewycz „Hałajda” was fatally wounded.

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

source: Motyka Grzegorz, „So it was in Bieszczady. Polish-Ukrainian battles in 1943-1948.”, in: Volumen Publishing House, Warsaw 1999, Warsaw 1999, p. 196

Other attacks date after midnight on March 31, 1944.

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

The UPA burned 300 Polish farms and murdered 76 Poles and 1 Ukrainian, others say the number of 300 victims. Many people from the Bałajewicz, Dubik, Dyrdy, Grochala, Orluk, Steciuk, Zworski and Zagajewski families. On March 31, 1944, after midnight, the guards noticed suspicious movements on the outskirts of the village and heard the whirl of wagons. However, no alarm was raised. It was only around 4 am that the UPA attack began on three sides. Polish guards left their posts alerting the population. Some Poles managed to take refuge in school and church. Some hid in cellars and various hiding places. A group of people took refuge in the railway station building, counting on the protection of the German crew. The Germans, however, surrendered to the Ukrainians, who spared them, while the Poles were shot. Without encountering any resistance, the attackers searched and burned the remaining Polish buildings. Detected Poles were murdered. Ukrainian houses were left untouched. Some of the victims were burned alive or suffocated in burning houses. The attack on the church and school was initiated only around 8 o'clock. The Poles, having barricaded themselves, repelled the UPA attacks with the help of their firearms and grenades. Poles defending themselves in the church began to run out of ammunition – so they threw various items from the windows on the attacking The Ukrainians – the cast iron wheel fell on the leader of the gang, Taras Onyszkiewycz pseudonym. „Hałajda”, who was mortally wounded (his brother Myroslaw Onyszkiewycz alias „Orest” commanded the extermination of Tarnoszyn several days earlier, currently in Uhnów, on the street leading to the Orthodox Church, on one of the houses – in this building they were born and lived – there is a plaque dedicated to these two criminals, and in the cemetery in Uhnów there is a tombstone of Taras Onyszkiewycz). At that time, people said goodbye to life in the church, the parish priest, Fr Stanisław Wolanin, granted collective absolution to everyone and gave the host which had previously been cut into smaller pieces. Salvation came suddenly – it was a unit from the German garrison from Krystynopol (two villagers managed to break through the Ukrainian encirclement and inform the Germans about the attack). Around On 9 a German unit arrived, so the Bandera followers withdrew towards the village of Parchacz. Another reason for the Ukrainians' retreat was the fatal wounding of the „Hałąjda” (died on April 1). According to witnesses, 76 people were murdered during the attack; according to the RGO report, about one hundred; 300 farms were burnt. According to Andrzej L. Sowa, the village was attacked three times by the UPA, including the sotnya „Tyhry” (which was noted in the chronicle of this unit) „Roman Steciuk did not find his wife with two children. It turned out that she managed to escape from the encircled Ostrów, but near Głuchów she fell into the hands of other Banderites who stabbed her children with bayonets. The torturers beat her, begging for mercy and the lives of her children, with rifle butts. Roman believed that his wife hid in Żabcz, where they had relatives. He went to look for her there. Unfortunately, he was killed there. He was arrested by the Banderites and was strangled with wire”.

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

source: Kondracki Adolf, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, portal: 27th Volhynia Division of Home Army AK, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 1061 — web page: 27wdpak.btx.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

G. Motyka dates the attack on March 28, 1944.

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

source: Motyka Grzegorz, „So it was in Bieszczady. Polish-Ukrainian battles in 1943-1948.”, in: Volumen Publishing House, Warsaw 1999, Warsaw 1999

Prof. Andrzej Leon Sowa in the review of the book by Volodymyr Viatrovych: „Polish–Ukrainian relations in 1942–1947 in the documents of the OUN ta UPA”, published in Lviv in 2011, writes („Memory and Justice” 12/1, 2013): „The published documents confirm the scheme of the Banderites' crackdown on the Polish community recreated in the documents of the Polish underground. The extermination of Poles began with the liquidation of the forest service and Polish settlements located near forest complexes, in accordance with the popular Bandera slogan: «our forest and our night». Then, in mixed villages – inhabited by the Ukrainians and Poles – «the purge» was carried out by militias created especially for this purpose. The estates started with the fewest Poles. attempts were made to carry out these activities without publicity, secretly. Large UPA units were used to liquidate larger towns inhabited exclusively by Poles. actions of this type were also allowed in broad daylight. Members of mixed Polish–Ukrainian families were considered particularly dangerous, which also – as you can guess – had to be liquidated. The justifications given in the texts informing about the murders of Poles are interesting. They were killed because: «reported to the Germans», «cooperated with the Gestapo», because «attacked the head of the village and robbed him» (justification for burning thirteen Polish farms and killing sixteen Poles), «were opposing our movement», threatened retribution «when Bolsheviks come» (an excuse to burn down 24 farms), «abused Ukrainian workers in the mine». A statement was also published that threatened to kill one hundred Poles for each Ukrainian handed over to the Germans. The conclusion from the analysis of this material suggests that people were killed for the mere fact of being Polish, and the justifications provided were to serve only propaganda purposes. The texts of the UPA attack on the Polish village of Ostrów (Sokala region), carried out at the end of March 1944, show how the Ukrainian side created – clearly for historical purposes – convenient versions of events sotni UPA «Tyhry» we learn that this action was carefully planned. The Ukrainian peasants who lived there had been informed so that they could escape earlier. In the morning, three groups of the UPA concentrated on the village, which burned Polish farms one by one, saving Ukrainian ones. The Poles took refuge in a brick church without a fight, which the Bandera followers were unable to conquer (pp. 590—592). A completely different course of events is presented in the alleged report of three Ukrainian witnesses to the events, as it can be assumed, written by members of the OUN Security Service. according to it, it was the Poles who provoked the entire operation, attacking the UPA unit calmly passing by the village, and then began to burn down Ukrainian farms. as a result of «fierce battle», during which Polish buildings burned down, Poles were forced to church (p. 412)”. .

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

source: prof. Sowa Andrzej Leon, „Polish-Ukrainian relations in 1942–1947 in the documents of the OUN ta UPA, edited by Wołodymyr Wiatrowycz, Lviv 2011: [review]”, review; in: „Memory and Justice”, in: No. 12/1, 2013

In April 1944, the following were murdered: 1–3. Bodniak Władysław aged 45; Chudzik Mieczysław age 2; Sobczak Tadeusz, aged 30; 4–5. Strusiński and others – two brothers.

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

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8

The Banderites murdered 17 Poles by the old Sołokija river bed: 13 women and 4 men (25‑year‑old and three aged 60–80).

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

The Banderites shot Katarzyna Kondracka and threw her body into the Sołokija River.

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

[The Ukrainians] murdered 2 Polish children: „To be Romana, 3 weeks; To be Władysława, 10 years old. One of the torturers took the baby by the legs and, hitting a concrete well, crushed its head. The bodies of both girls were thrown into the well by the torturers. Upon seeing the Banderites, their mother escaped and survived, their father Martyn was absent at the house at that time”.

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

source: Kondracki Adolf, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, portal: 27th Volhynia Division of Home Army AK, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 1064 — web page: 27wdpak.btx.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

In the village of Ostrów, poviat Sokal [the Ukrainians] abducted policeman Mikołaj Piotrowicz. „After some time, the terribly mutilated body of Mikołaj Piotrowicz was found. He was without clothes, only the remains of a T‑shirt around his neck. His tongue was torn out, his eyes gouged out, his ears and body cut off, his arms and legs broken, starting with his fingers. His hair was gray–haired — he turned gray during the torture inflicted on him”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]

source: Paszkowska Józefa nee Tetera, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 1073