After the torture, they hanged 35‑year‑old Stanisław Świetuch and 35‑year‑old Ukrainian, Józef Chymejczuk, for supporting Poles. „On the night of February 24, 1944, several Bandera followers burst into my apartment. at the outset, they told me that I was arrested by the field police of the UPA. They made me cross my arms behind my back and tied them with hemp rope. They took me to the apartment of my Ukrainian neighbor, Ivan Dudek. There they started beating the chain all over the body. They also beat with a wooden stake. after a while I received a blow to the head. I lost consciousness. The Banderites poured cold water over me and when I regained consciousness they started beating me again. I passed out a second time. When I got it back, I realized with horror that I was hanging on a pole by the school building. I was hanged on a chain and it turned out to be salutary for the twisted links of the chain prevented the loop from fully tightening around the neck. Several Ukrainian torturers were standing next to them, talking with humor about my death. One of them said: «this Polish whore gave up her spirit in the apartment and we unnecessarily dragged her here». He came up to me and to be sure he pricked my buttock with his bayonet. Despite the excruciating pain, I didn't move, and neither did I let out a groan. The will to live was stronger than the pain. after the torturers had left, I managed to free my hands from the rope. With them free, I grabbed the chain above my head, pulled myself up and, hanging from one arm, took the noose off my neck with the other. There was no one around. My mother lived a few homesteads behind the school building. I also went there immediately. When my mother treated my wounds, we both hid in a masked backyard shelter. The next day, my mother took me to the hospital, where I was recovering from for several months”.

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

source: Bochenek Zofia, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 519

„Before the war, Skowiatyn was such an idyllic, quiet village – recalls Nawolski. – My father was a village leader, common to Polish and Ukrainian residents. Unfortunately, the idyll lasted for a while. One night in 1944, the Bandera followers appeared. They took Mr. Antoni's father, grandfather, a Polish teacher and a friend from Ukraine. The Banderites dragged them with them. After a short time, they released the elder Nawolski. The man was convinced they would shoot him in the back. And so, with his soul on his shoulder, feeling that someone was following him step by step, he came home. He lit a candle and began to pray. He heard a murmur outside the window. The Ukrainians sent a man after him to check whether he was warning other Polish families. – Since then, we had no idea what happened to my father – says Nawolski. – Until 2009, when we went on a trip to our homeland. Together with Sigismud, we went with a Ukrainian friend to my village. At the intersection in front of the store I was hit by a large man. I asked if he knew Szczerbaniuk, that was the name of the Ukrainian friend of the father with whom he was taken. He looked at me and said he was his son. The gentlemen went to the farmyard. They threw themselves into each other's arms, and tears fell. The Ukrainian served in the army, came to Berlin, then looked for his father's traces. Unsuccessfully. Now it is known that both the Pole and the Ukrainian were shot and the bodies were probably thrown into Zbruch. By the way, Mr. Antoni learned the extraordinary story of a teacher, the third victim of that abduction, who was first bullied by the torturers and then hanged by a chain on a ceiling. The woman was lucky because the chain links were not fully tightened. First she lost consciousness, then she pretended to be dead and the bandit who wanted to finish her decided that it was no longer necessary. Wounded, naked for eight kilometers. After snow on a frosty night. She survived and after the war she lived in Wrocław”. It was Zofia's Loaf, 35 years old.

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

source: Chajewski Dariusz, „We owe it to the Poles in Kresy, to those who stayed there”; in: portal: Gazeta Lubuska — web page: plus.gazetalubuska.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles and 2 The Ukrainians for favoring Poles, while the tortured and seriously wounded Zofia Bochenek, 35, miraculously survived. See above: February 24.

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