sotnya UPA murdered 5 Poles from the district of Wydymyr (including an 18‑year‑old boy) in the forest, then the bandits rode 50 sleighs into Parośl. Four to six men entered each house. They pretended to be Soviet partisans, but Poles were immediately puzzled by the fact that they spoke the local Ukrainian dialect and were dressed like local Ukrainians. Besides, Soviet partisans did not wear axes or hatchets stuck in their belts. They made them bake bread and cook dinner. None of the family members were allowed to leave the house. all passing through the village were stopped. The homesteads were searched. When the gun was found, the host was tortured. Before dinner, at the house of Stanisław Kołodyński, the father of the miraculously surviving two children (including a 12‑year‑old son, whose account is quoted in the book by W. and E. Siemaszko on pp. 1213–1219), several Kuban Cossacks were murdered, taken „to the Soviet partisan” from the police station in Włodzimierz. They did not want to join the UPA and murder the Polish population. From the windows of many houses, Poles watched the unsuccessful escape of two boys aged sixteen and seventeen, the sons of the Horoszkiewiczs. The Ukrainians, with axes, chopped off their hands, then legs and ears, ripped their bellies open, salted the wounds with salt and left the dying in the snow. „In individual houses, at 4 p.m., the sotniks gave orders that all household members should lie down on the floor, as they would shoot the supposedly approaching Germans and someone could accidentally be injured or killed. As people lay face down on the floor «guerrillas» chopped everyone's heads with their axes. The heads of children were hit with the heads of axes or hatchets. In some houses, the Poles did not obey orders, did not lie down on the floors, then the Ukrainians caught individual people and murdered them cruelly. The women had their breasts, noses and ears cut off, their nails torn off, their hands and legs were cut off, their bellies ripped open. Men had their genitals cut off, their hands, hands and feet were cut off in pieces, their bellies were torn open, their eyes were burned with burning wires, their tongues, noses and ears were cut off, they sprinkled salt on it. They chopped their heads with slices, piece by piece. These people were dying in terrible torment, and the murderers – «striłci» [shooters] UPA, said with irony and a smile on their faces: – Cursed Lachi [Poles], wormy sons, this is your Poland, you won't see her again”. .

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

source: Przybysz Antoni, „Recollections of martyred Volhynia: 1939-1945”, in: Wroclaw 2000, p. 63

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

In the basement of Klemens Horoszkiewicz, the six–person Jewish family of Dawid Balzer was hidden, but they were not detected by the Ukrainians and survived. She witnessed the slaughter of the Polish family. According to W. and E. Siemaszko, in Parośl, the Ukrainians murdered 149 Poles and 6 Russians /? /. A. Przybysz states that they murdered 143 inhabitants of the colony, including 43 children up to the age of 14, – excluding 5 Poles, inhabitants of the neighboring Wydymer colony, murdered at dawn that day, who were deliberately appointed by the mayor of the colony for the removal of trees from the nearby forest by a Ukrainian Ivan Voloshin (it was the only Ukrainian family to live in Wydymera), who knew about the planned slaughter. The Siemaszków family give the number of 20 people from outside Paros, who were on that day for various reasons in this colony and were also murdered. The murder was discovered the next day by neighbors from the nearby town, who came to Parośl with various matters. The German police were not interested in the crime. It was only from Antonówka that twelve German soldiers arrived to work on the construction of a wooden bridge over Horyń. Under their cover, the victims were buried – there was fear of an attack by a gang. The murderers came mainly from the nearby Ukrainian villages: Butejki, Romejka, Wielki Żełuck, Żółkinie, Bielatycz, Kołki. The Ukrainians from various social groups took part in the massacre of Parosia, for example employees of Widdił Oswita (Education Department) from Włodzimierz, village leader of the Wydymer Ukrainian colony Ivan Voloshin, sons of an Orthodox clergyman, and „ordinary Ukrainian peasants”. „173 people were murdered, only 11 people, mostly children, severely maimed, were later rescued. As usual, gangs did it, after the murder, the farms were robbed, taking all their belongings and livestock. The subsequent examination of the murdered revealed the special cruelty of the torturers. Babies were nailed to tables with kitchen knives, some men were flayed with belts, some had veins torn from groin to feet, women were not only raped, but many had their breasts cut. Many of the murdered had cut off ears, noses, lips, eyes taken out, heads often cut off. After the slaughter, the murderers organized a libation in the house of the village leader. After the torturers had left, a 12–month–old child was found dead among the leftovers of food and home brew bottles, nailed to the table with a bayonet, and an uneaten piece of pickled cucumber was placed in the child's mouth”.

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

source: Piotrowski Czesław, „Liquidation of a settlement and a village in Volhynia”; in: portal: Volhynia pages — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

The crime in Parosla was perpetrated by the Military Unit of the Bandera OUN Hryhorij Perehijniak „Dowbeszki–Korobka”, considered to be the first unit of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Before 1939, Perehiniak was serving a sentence in a Polish prison for the murder of the village leader – a Pole. Stepan Bandera was imprisoned with him. On February 22, he died in a skirmish with Germany. „We moved to Horodżecka, 7 km from Horodźca to my grandma  […] My grandmother fell ill. She asked her granddaughter to bring the priest to the last confession. Since the priest from Antonówka temporarily left, my cousin Aleksander Ślązak went to find the priest in a nearby parish, Włodzimierz. On his return he was carrying Helena Czarnecka, who was visiting her brother in the prison in Włodzimierz. On their way, they reached the Polish village of Parośla and were hacked with axes there. Later, a priest from Włodzimierz said that when they were driving through Parosla, the village was empty, no one went either to the cowshed or for water, when they returned to Włodzimierz the same thing. The priest asked Olek to spend the night in Włodzimierz, but the brave one said that he did not see anything disturbing. He went and in the first house, when they drove into Parośla, they were taken home and hacked. After this murder, the German army came to Setkówka. They resettled one farmer who had a large house, built several barracks next to the house and in the barracks, the army settled in, and closer to the bridge they fenced off a large area with barricades, where about 50 people, inhabitants of Setkówka and nearby houses stayed overnight, so that in the event of an attack by Ukrainians, the German army could defend us”. .

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

source: Kraśnicka Franciszka; in: „A call from Volhynia”, in: No. 3 (112), May-June 2013 — web page: www.duszki.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]