„The most famous German colonist, who was called the executioner of Southern Podlasie, was Adolf Dykow. He came from Okalewo, but during the war he moved to Wohyń and then to Radzyń. His father was Ukrainian and his mother was German from a colonist family. after the Wehrmacht entered, he began to cooperate openly with the Gestapo, and his membership in the 5th column may be evidenced by the fact that from the beginning of his cooperation with Germany there were numerous arrests. He started his activity by condemning 5 neighbors with whom he grew up to death. according to Stanisław Jarmuł, the number of Poles arrested and murdered by Dyków, as determined by the courts of the Polish Underground State, reaches almost 400, and Jews – around 1000  […] He organized various provocative activities, e.g. organized in the fall of 1943. from the group of The Ukrainians stationed in Jabłonie, a unit of alleged partisans, fortunately quickly deciphered by the intelligence of the Peasant Battalions. His cruelest crime was the murder of the Pawlin family from Płudów on May 26, 1943 as part of the application of collective responsibility for the partisan activities of Bronisław Pawlina, nom–de–guerre Laugh. a bestial execution was carried out at four in the morning on 3 women, including one in the 9th month of pregnancy and 3 children aged 5, 1.5 and 1. The courier of the Radzyń Home Army AK District Command, J. Piekarski from Branica Radzyńska, from Branica Radzyńska, who committed suicide so as not to surrender himself to the Gestapo, was at the Pawlins' house at that time”. As a result of an underground court sentence, he was shot on October 30, 1943. .

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

source: Gątarczyk Agnieszka, „The German minority of the Radzyń County during the occupation 1939-1944”

source: Gątarczyk Agnieszka, PhD, „German minority of the Radzyń poviat during the occupation 1939—1944”, paper at the scientific conference „September 1939 and the Second World War in the Radzyń region” on September 4, 2009; in: John Paul II’s Secondary Schools Group, Radzyń Podlaski — web page: zspradzyn.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]