The Ukrainians murdered Rafał Citowicz, 42.

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

Orthodox feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: they murdered 19 Polish families living here, i.e. about 96 Poles.

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

On October 19, 1943, at dawn, someone knocked on the door of our house. When mum answered, Ignacy Wójcik was standing in the door with his fourteen‑year‑old son Władysław. Both in ragged clothes and muddy, they looked like spooks. There was fear and fatigue in their eyes. It turns out that the day before yesterday night, the Ukrainian rezunas attacked the Polish colony of Podryże, where they murdered its inhabitants and set their buildings on fire. They attacked the village before dawn, when the guards, tired of the all–night vigil, left their alarm posts, believing that there would be no attack that night and went to sleep. Unfortunately, it was used by the resuns (Eng. butchers), which was helped by the thick fog from the side of the Struga and wet meadows. This allowed them to approach the buildings themselves and simultaneously invade houses inhabited by Polish families. They murdered with axes and pitchforks women, children and also men who were surprised in their dreams. After which they started burning the buildings with the bodies of their victims and living people who managed to hide from the blows of axes and forks. Now they were dying in burning houses. Ignatius and his son managed to avoid death only because, leaving the guard, they entered the barn, where they intended to go to sleep so as not to disturb the rest of the family's sleep. After a while, they heard a rattle on the door of their house. It was the bandits who fought from all sides. It was too late to come to the rescue. The lit thatch illuminated the entire yard. Ignac and his son jumped out of the barn, the back gate and, taking advantage of the fog and darkness, escaped into the thickets by the Struga River. Screams of burning children and wife reached their ears all the time. At that time, all the buildings of Wójcików burst into flames, where they found their graves: Wójcik Józef with his wife Józefa and two children, Wójcik Władysław with the whole family, Wójcik Bronisław with his family (burned alive), Ignaca, wife with three children (burned alive), Janka Kidybówna with his mother and two children (murdered with axes). It was Janka who, just before the war in 1039, married a Ukrainian, Ivan Terente. He himself did not save himself from death at the hands of his fellows. They all died from blows inflicted with axes and pitchforks. The children were found in bed with their heads split open. The ax blows reached their mother, who wanted to protect her babies with her body. Her mother was lying on the threshold at the entrance to the house, also with her head split open and her hand severed. Only Ivan was lying on the road in front of the house  […] . But apparently he failed to find pity among his fellows, for the head cut with an ax and the holes in his chest and belly testified that he had been stabbed for a long time with a pitchfork. He had to die because he married a Polish woman.

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

source: Kostecki Feliks, „And mothers keep crying …”, in: , p. 167

„The night before yesterday” that is October 16–17, „before dawn”, that is already October 17, while W. and E. Siemaszko date the attack on August 29, 1943.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 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