The local Ukrainians murdered 1 Pole, a resident of Hrubieszów.

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

On September 15, 1943, 3 platoons from Stanisław Basaj „Rysia” battalion attacked the Ukrainian police station in Sahryń, but without success; it is one of the few lost fights of this unit of Peasant Battalions.

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

On October 4, 1943, Ukrainian nationalists shot the commander of the Home Army AK Hrubieszów district, who was working as a railwayman. The Ukrainians did not know that he was in the Home Army.

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

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8

The body of a murdered 14‑year‑old naked Polish girl, impaled, from Sahryń, was found.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Jastrzębski Stanisław, „Ukrainian nationalists genocide against Poles in the Lublin region in 1939-1947”, in: Nortom Publishing, 2007, p. 115 — web page: sbc.org.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The Ukrainians murdered a Polish woman, the wife of a Ukrainian, who brought her to the place where he was ordered. Others: the UPA kidnapped and murdered a 23‑year‑old Polish woman, Maria Kowalczyk, the wife of a Ukrainian, Bazyli Szykuła.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

BCH and Home Army AK units carried out a pre–emptive attack on the Bandera followers who were gathering for the attack on the Poles, the date of which was set for March 16, which was confirmed by the UPA documents obtained in the bunker in the village of Szychowice. The commander of the Home Army AK „Viktor” ordered the Ukrainian civilians to be saved and forbidden looting – for which, after a fight, he personally shot one of the Polish partisans in front of the front; one Home Army AK partisan was killed in the fight against the UPA. „Investigation into the operation carried out on March 9 and 10, 1944 by units of the Home Army and a unit of Peasants' Battalions, against groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Sahryń, Szychowice and other places in the Lublin Province, as a result of which an undetermined number of civilians died, including persons of Ukrainian nationality (S.54 / 07 / Zi). In the course of the investigation, it was established that at the turn of 1943 and 1944, the Polish–Ukrainian conflict had intensified in the Zamość region. In January 1944, the Ukrainian underground intensified the organization of its troops. Many villages located between the Bug and the Uchanie, Bereść, Hostynne, and Werbkowice lines were transformed into fortified camps, surrounded by a network of bunkers, trenches and barbed wire. At the end of February 1944, a meeting of the Zamość Inspectorate of the Home Army was held, during which it was decided to organize an anti–Ukrainian self–defense line and prepare a partisan offensive against the Ukrainians. The final decisions on the attack on Ukrainian villages were made at the beginning of March 1944. This action was to anticipate the attack by Ukrainian forces, planned for March 16, 1944. On March 7 – 8, 1944. in the Lipowiec forest there was a concentration of the Home Army's Tomaszów units. On the night of March 9–10, 1944, the attack on the Sahryn began. The fighting lasted until the afternoon, and from 10oo only the brick Ukrainian police station defended itself. After capturing Sahryń, the Home Army units launched an attack on neighboring towns. The following colonies were seized: Alojzów, Brzeziny, Berezna, Dęby and the villages of Malice, Metelin, Strzyżowiec, Turkowice, Wronowice, Mircze, Prehoryłe, Terebiń, Terebiniec and Wereszyn. All the villages were burnt. However, the village of Werbkowice, which was manned by German units, was not captured. The Hrubieszów units of the Home Army and the unit of the Peasant Battalions launched an attack on Szychowice on March 10, 1944 in the morning. The village was burnt down. Many people died, however, the number of those killed has not been established. Then Polish troops attacked and captured Łask”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Lublin, in: ref. No. S 54/07/Zi

At the beginning of 1944, the OUN–B established two militias of the OUN Security Service in the Chełm region, began expanding the OUN network and creating rural self–defense. Already in January, militias launched attacks on Poles, mainly attacking landowners' estates and murdering their owners. According to historians from the Institute of National Remembrance, many villages located between the Bug and the line marked by the villages of Uchanie, Bereść, Hostynne, Werbkowice, were fortified, which made them fortified camps with a network of bunkers, trenches and barbed wire.
From 1943, information about the murders of the Polish population in Volhynia also reached the Zamość region, along with refugees. Therefore, at the end of February 1944, a meeting of the Zamość Inspectorate of the Home Army was held, during which it was decided to organize an anti–Ukrainian self–defense line and prepare a partisan offensive against the Ukrainians. At the beginning of March 1944, in the command of the Home Army, a decision was made to organize a pre–emptive action against the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Sahryń, Szychowice and Łasków. These localities were recognized as the concentration centers of UPA forces in the Hrubieszów district. This decision was made after the intelligence of the Home Army's Hrubieszów district learned about the UPA attack planned for March 16, 1944 in the Hrubieszów district (which actually took place). Grzegorz Motyka thinks that that the legitimacy of these actions was served by the order of general „Bora” ordering to cut down the colonists who took part in the murders of Poles. According to this historian, it was considered that the order concerns not only Germans, but also Ukrainians.
Sahryń was a village with a Ukrainian–Polish population, with a Ukrainian predominance. There are various reports on the size of the village – the number of houses is 260, 300, 325. The vast majority of the inhabitants were Orthodox The Ukrainians (80% according to Yuri Makar). The Poles of the Roman Catholic faith lived in the village until the German deportations in 1943. After that date, only those who were related to the Ukrainians or who had obtained help from them to hide from deportation remained in the village.
According to Andrzej Leon Sowa and Mariusz Zajączkowski, during the attack on Sahryń, the Polish command decided to pacify the village and attack the civilian population, so that the brutality of the attack would act as a deterrent and discourage the UPA from committing further murders of Poles. Grzegorz Motyka writes that the commander of the Polish Home Army units, Lieutenant Zenon Jachymek, pseud. „Viktor” gave an order to conserve the civilian population, which, however, was not respected. In the opinion of Zajączkowski, however, it is unlikely. The author points out that the preserved documents of the Home Army from the fall of 1943 require that collective responsibility be applied to the inhabitants of Ukrainian villages where the perpetrators of the crimes against Poles were hiding or in the vicinity of which such crimes took place.
Before March 10, Ukrainian residents of Pasieka (now part of Wronowice), Terebinia and Modrynia, threatened with retaliatory actions by the Polish partisans, arrived in Sahryń.
The initiator of a series of attacks on Ukrainian villages was the commander of the Home Army district in Hrubieszów, Marian Gołębiewski pseud. „Irka”, and the whole action was called by Home Army AK „the Hrubieszów revolution”.
The soldiers of the battalion of Zenon Jachymek „Wiktor”, field company No. 19 „Komarow” under the command of Sgt. Paweł Dziurbas alias „Boulder”, part of the soldiers of the independent cavalry reconnaissance platoon. Ryszard Jankowski pseudonym „Squall” and two platoons of Kedyw commanded by Lieutenant Kazimierz Witrylak pseud. „Helium”. It was about 500 soldiers in total. According to Motyka, the battalion of the Peasant Battalions of Stanisław Basaj, pseudonym „Lynx”. Zajączkowski indicates that this unit attacked Szychowice on March 10, 1944.
On March 10, 1944, there were about 60–80 armed The Ukrainians in Sahryń: at least 20 members of the local unit of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, a unit of several dozen UNS, a dozen or so soldiers of the Ukrainian Selbstschutz / Ortschutz, and probably also a dozen deserters from the 5th SS Police Regiment, who shortly before abandoned the post in Kosmowo.
Ukrainian sources indicate that the Sahrian branch of the UNS had 60 rifles, while the Polish one that there were 200, and the number 60 refers only to weapons donated by the Germans shortly before March 10. Polish sources also claim that there were machine gun nests in the area of the cemetery and the church and at the auxiliary police station. A Pole living in Sahryń, Jan Palenga, claimed that weapons were in every Ukrainian farm in the village.
Mariusz Zajączkowski considers it unlikely that the Ukrainian partisans erected particularly extensive fortifications or bunkers in Sahryń. In his opinion, such structures were shelters or underground hiding places dug next to houses to hide in the event of an attack. They were located both at Ukrainian and Polish houses, in many villages in the area of the fighting.
Before the attack on Sahryń, Polish troops surrounded the village and isolated it from the neighboring towns where The Ukrainians dominated, preventing them from warning the inhabitants of Sahryń. The attack on the countryside occurred at 4:30. Polish soldiers fired tracer missiles at the town, setting off a fire in the buildings.
A view of the former church (now a church) and the road towards the Orthodox cemetery. In this area there were short fights between the Home Army soldiers and The Ukrainians from the auxiliary police and units of the Ukrainian National Self–Defense
The attackers were only resisted by the station's crew, there was an exchange of fire in the vicinity of the church, in the cemetery and at the station building itself. The resistance of the policemen was quickly broken, and the Ukrainian self–defense quickly escaped from the battlefield. According to some Ukrainian reports, the police officers were outside the police station at the time of the attack. Perhaps it was they who defended themselves in the church and in the cemetery. Then some of them withdrew towards Werbkowice. Armed Ukrainians, if they did not die in combat, were shot on the spot.
After entering the village, Poles also killed civilian Ukrainian residents. The encountered The Ukrainians were killed with shots from firearms, and grenades were also thrown into hiding places on farms. Usually the identities of civilians were checked to avoid killing Poles, but there were also cases of shooting at residents without warning. The entire robbery ended at approx. 14. According to data written by a local priest, the attackers destroyed the church, parish buildings and 280 houses. Zajączkowski writes that the village burned down almost completely.
According to Polish historians from the Institute of National Remembrance, 150—300 people died. Zajączkowski points to 234 known by name of those murdered in Sahryń.
Another Polish author, Marek Jasiak, wrote about 700 victims. This figure is close to the one Zajączkowski gives as the number of 681 people murdered in Sahryń, Szychowice and Łasków on 10 March.
Similarly, in Ukrainian historiography concerning Sahryń there are both the numbers of victims similar to the Polish estimates and higher: 600—800. To this day, there is no single, undisputed list of victims, some names are repeated several times on the already functioning ones. In some documents of Ukrainian institutions from 1944 it was written that only 700 people died in Sahryń, which was too high a respect.
According to the latest findings of Igor Hałagida, 606 people (including at least 6 Polish nationalities) are known by name, who were murdered by Polish partisans in Sahryń and the surrounding colonies – including 231 women and 151 children. According to him, on that day alone, over 1,200 Ukrainian civilians were killed in the Hrubieszów county.
On the Polish side, two soldiers were killed and a few were wounded. One of the dead was an unknown shooter, pseudonym „Funny”, shot personally by Zenon Jachymek for offenses before March 10 (robbery).
The same Home Army AK and BCh units within „of the Hrubieszów Revolution” also destroyed other Ukrainian villages: Prehoryłe, Miętkie, Szychowice, Terebiń, Strużeneć and Turkowice. On March 10 alone, as planned by the Home Army, 7 Ukrainian villages were attacked, and as a result of further attacks, until March 19 – 26 villages. This action was met with retaliation by the UPA and the SS „Galizien”, which forced the „Rysia” unit to withdraw from the Hrubieszów region. By the end of March, 25 Polish villages had been destroyed in such attacks. There was a further escalation of Polish–Ukrainian guerrilla fights in the region.
Although the command of the Lublin District of the Home Army agreed to take action against The Ukrainians in the Hrubieszów region, it was probably influenced by the information on the number of civilian victims of the described actions that it partially changed its position. Seeing, however, that the action did not play the intended deterrent role and that the crimes against Poles were still taking place, at the turn of May and June 1944, it was decided to attack Ukrainian centers in the Hrubieszów region.
The events in Sahryń and other villages attacked that day were exploited by the OUN and the UPA for propaganda purposes. They were invoked by spreading false information that the murders of Poles in Volhynia and Galicia took place after the Poles attacked the Ukrainians of the Chełm region. The crime of March 10, 1944 was a shock for the Ukrainians of the Chełm region and translated into an increase in support for the OUN–B, in which they began to be seen as the only defender against the Polish partisans..

source: „The crime in Sahryń”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The Ukrainians murdered 4 Poles: men aged 18 and 56 in the village, and shot the father and his 17‑year‑old son who worked in the field.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

On May 15, 1945, Józef Szumerek, about 50, was murdered. [No information about the population of the colonies of Sachryń II and Sachryń III].

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8

[The Ukrainians] murdered 5 Poles working in the field, displaced people from Volhynia; the fate of Poles living in colonies II and III in Sahryń is unknown: „Some residents of the neighboring villages claim that all Poles were murdered there by UPA gangs and no one survived”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Jastrzębski Stanisław, „Ukrainian nationalists genocide against Poles in the Lublin region in 1939-1947”, in: Nortom Publishing, 2007, p. 115 — web page: sbc.org.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]