Kowalczykowa  […] had lost her husband earlier. He was a forester, at the beginning of the year he went to the forest, he did not come back, all hearing from him was lost. She was left alone.

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

source: Szymczak Damian, „Do soldiers walk with cleavers”; in: „Gazeta Polska”, in: July 23, 2008

The Ukrainians murdered Władysław Filipiak.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

One of the Ukrainians caught Wanda (Piliszczewska, age 8 – by S.Ż), but she managed to get away after a short struggle. She jumped outside, but did not run straight, like mom and sister, but turned to the side. At the well standing in front of one of the cottages, she saw a Ukrainian tearing a child apart. – A little girl, she was lying on the ground. He stepped on one leg and tugged at the other with all his might, just to tear the baby apart. Then he threw her into the well. Seeing this, Wanda started running so fast that she chased us away and first fell into the Karawański buildings  […] Kowalczykowa had three children, nineteen‑year‑old Stasia, seventeen‑year‑old Tadzio and two‑year‑old Basia. When they came to their house, they ordered them to kneel. Toward the altar. There was an altar in her house, the village was far from the church, it was in Horochów, about ten kilometers. That is why the inhabitants of Pustomyt often went to pray to Kowalczykowa. She was kneeling in the middle, son and daughter at her sides, little Basia was standing in the crib. One of the bandits fired. Kowalczyk's son and daughter fell immediately, her ball shot through her hands. She fell too, pretended to be dead. Basia cried. The Ukrainian approached her, the child stretched out his hands to the silver blade, the latter pushed and sank them into her breast. Then they placed wooden furniture, straw mattresses and wood in the middle of the cottage, set it on fire and ran outside. Then Kowalczykowa grabbed a bowl that was standing in the corner of the cottage. There was water in the bowl, enough water to put out the flames. But one of the Ukrainians saw her from the court, returned to the cottage and began to hit her head with the rifle butt until she stopped moving. Decided he was dead, then he left. This time they did not try to set fire to the house. Kowalczykowa regained consciousness. She went downstairs to the basement. She wrapped rags around her torn hands and sat on the stool. And from above, blood was dripping through the cracks in the floor. The blood of her dead children was sticking from head to toe. After all, she couldn't take it, left after two hours. She wrapped the bodies in sheets, dug a hole under the window and placed her dead children there. Earlier, she lost her husband. He was a forester, at the beginning of the year he went to the forest, he did not come back, all hearing from him was lost. She was left alone  […] Ukrainian bandits caught up with Tomasz Hołowanski, he had a Ukrainian stepmother. They killed her in a cottage, and placed her dead body by the stove. They tied him with a feather comforter, stomped him with a scythe, threw him on a straw manure and set him on fire. He managed to curl up in this duvet, but he was badly burned  […] They took him to the hospital, there he died after a few days.

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

source: Szymczak Damian, „Do soldiers walk with cleavers”; in: „Gazeta Polska”, in: July 23, 2008

I remembered that during those days of the robbery and murder in Postomycka Kolonia near Horochów, they killed a forester, wife, daughter and a little two‑year‑old daughter, and that some nice Poles named Hołdańscy lived next to the forester's lodge. They had many children, and they had one son, such a sportsman, athlete, strong. They tricked him. A Ukrainian entered their house and said that the forester was calling him to come immediately, and he saw that it was a Ukrainian who works for a forester. He believed and ran and it was full of bandits. They caught him in such a trap and murdered him. They chopped off his hands, gouged out his eyes, cut off his tongue, cut off his ears and tired him terribly. But you have to luck that the forester's wife came back to life, because she was hit with an ax in the back and fell facedown on the ground, and after some time she woke up and saw that everyone was dead, and only Hołdowanieski whined, for his tongue was cut off, and his torso was still alive. She left the house, saw her daughter killed in flower beds, wailed loudly and walked through the village of Postomyte in the direction of Horochowa and cried: kill me, kill me, I have nothing to live for. And so she walked through the village, she asked for death, but she met no one, and so she went out onto the road, almost to Horochów. In the suburbs, my husband met her on his way from Janina, also escaping from bandits alone. He got off the wagon and put her on the wagon seriously wounded, took her to the presbytery, she told her experiences and they took her to the hospital and she cured herself and lived with us for over 7 months. And how did she tell us that Tomek Hołdowanieski, who was still alive, was moaning so hard, that yes, and so fucked up, the Poles, armed in broad daylight, went and had no skirmishes. They brought their killed to Horochów, In order to bury him in the cemetery, and this Mr. Hołdowanieski was brought, the Germans took pictures that such a torso was still alive, put it in a car and took it to Lviv, photographed it in different directions and lived in the hospital for two more days. He died on July 15, 1943.

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

source: Wolf Józefa z. d Zawilska, „Memories”; in: portal: Volhynia pages — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

Siemaszko et Siemaszko  […] write about the Pustomyta colony: „On June 10, 1943, the UPA kidnapped and murdered Władysław Filipiak, sister Andrzej and Agnieszka née Pierożek, 46; On July 12, 1943, Polish farms were burned in the colony, and the Poles were completely murdered, i.e. about 50” people – and on p. 192, about the village of Pustomyty: „In July 1943, most probably on July 12, the UPA murdered all those living there. in the village of Poles, i.e. at least 40 people. Names have not been established”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 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. 191—192

[The Ukrainians] murdered about 50 Poles. See also: „On the night of July 11—12, 1943,”.

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

[The Ukrainians] murdered about 40 Poles. „I am asking you if it is possible to publish information about the murder of my grandfather's family — Kazimierz Sichowski, who came from the town of Pustomyty in the province. Volhynian” (however, it was not specified whether the murder took place in a colony or in a village).

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

source: Wolszczak Agnieszka, kaysjopeja@gazeta.pl