The Ukrainians murdered 5 Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The local Ukrainians murdered 8 Poles, including 30‑year‑old Rozalia Sawicka and 38‑year‑old Franciszek Zieliński, they stripped their clothes, tied them with barbed wire and stuffed the massacred body into an airhole on the Mielnica River. Until 1845 the village was a Polish village. Forced by the tsarist administration to adopt Orthodoxy, it was ruthenized. In March 1943, its inhabitants, considering themselves Ukrainians, participated in the killing of Poles.

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

„I was born in the town of Balarka, Silno commune, Lutsk county, Derażne parish. Family: we were two brothers – I, Edward Szpringel (Szpryngiel), was born in 1933  […] What a strong human heart is. How were they supposed to lead us from Rudni to Studziny, for this connection, the wife of this village administrator tells us «How long can a man tire before he dies. Two weeks before you, the Ukrainians caught a woman with her son. They pierced the door in the barn with their breasts, cut the straps alive from their backs, then tore them off, pierced with their backs. When they started cutting in front, it was the mother and son who died». Me, my brother and my mother listen, knowingly that we are going to a cruel death and our hearts endure”  […] „He reads the village leader that they will deliver us to Duży Studziny (Name in the local Polish version. Proper name Stydyń Wielki, Ukrainian village in the commune of Stydyń, over Kostopolski.). There is such a point. Whoever they catch, they live there and he is to lead us there. The wife of this village leader says directly that there is a relationship there, about 15 Ryzuns, no one will come out alive there. He says that in front of us they caught a teacher and her son who taught children there and also murdered in a horrible way”.

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]

source: Szpringel Edward, „God saved us”; in: portal: Volhynia – letter from Edward Szpringel / Szpryngiel /, former inhabitant of Balarka colony to Ewa and Władysław Siemaszko, dated October 2, 2001 - found and inserted by Bogusław Szarwiło — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.04.11]

Edward Szpringel (proper: Szpryngiel) (with his mother and brother, they escaped from Huta Stepańska on July 18, hid for 34 days and around August 21 were caught by the Ukrainians near the village of Balarka, Lutsk district, the described crime took place two weeks before their capture, i.e. around August 7, 1943).

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]