The Ukrainians murdered the 5–person Jaroszyński family with 3 children: sons 12 and 14 and daughter Genowefa, 18.

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

Ukrainian SS men from the „Galizien–Hałyczyna” as well as Ukrainian policemen and Ukrainian peasants from nearby villages (over 2,000 attackers) murdered over 200 Poles. Units of the Home Army and BCH fought in defense, 32 partisans were killed in the fight – over 232 Poles were killed in total. Children, women and the elderly were murdered in a cruel way, burned alive, women were raped, property was plundered, the village was burned to the ground. Robert Herbaczewski writes: „about the world On March 27, 1944, nearly 2,000 Wehrmacht soldiers from the 154th Infantry Division, Police and SS Galizien, UPA, equipped with artillery and armored weapons, unexpectedly surrounded Smoligów, the Olszynka colony, the colony of america and Łask. a region that has been the base of «Rys» for several months. In the morning, artillery and mortar fire began. Machine gun volleys cut the windows of houses. The encircled platoons of BCh «Żmijka» and of «Orzel» and the Home Army AK platoon of «Hardy» were destroyed. as a result of the shelling, Michał Ordyniec and soldiers from his platoons died. The platoon of Felisk Zwolak «Szczygiel» was decimated. The commander of the outpost Bolesław Kaniuga «Orzeł» died from the series from the machine gun. His two cousins, Feliks «Zając» and Stanisław «Gear» together with their father Wincenty, died. Mieczysław Mazur, Franciszek Łysiak and nurse Wanda Michnor died from the explosion of a missile fired from an armored cannon. Martyniuk, Pukaluk, Dąbrowski, Dębiński, and Czuwara died. Czesław Bulicz «Big One» resisted to the very end, as the UPA, enraged by his resistance, gouged out his eyes and cut his tongue out. as a result of the many hours of bloody battle, which ended in the defeat of the surrounding troops, 33 partisans were killed in combat and many were wounded. – In the meadows, right next to the dike, my father was killed in the chest by a machine gun burst. Fatally wounded Jan Wężowski «Moustache», who had recently arrived from Waręż and sworn in at the local outpost along with his brother Michał «Orlik», died next to him. Michał also did not have anything to defend himself because he ran out of ammunition. Nobody could prevent the monstrous slaughter – recalled later Zbigniew Ziembikiewicz pseudonym «Dragon». His father, Stanisław, was a teacher in Smoligów. However, at the cost of heavy losses, «Rys» arrived at the scene of the fight and managed to break a part of the battalion out of the trap. The corridor he created allowed for the evacuation of part of the civilian population towards Tyszowce. The Dunaj family managed to save themselves. They escaped through the fields towards Łasków. The four–person family of Gałęza, the owner of the mill, walked in front of them. – He had a boy, Czesław, my age, and a younger daughter. Suddenly something flew over our heads and fell on them. They all died. We returned to Procia, where we hid in the dungeon, with no door. There were a lot of potatoes and a lot of blood. There was already a woman sitting there with a child who was coughing terribly because he had whooping cough. My father left the dungeon and says that Olszynka is on fire and that 20 peasants are going straight at us. We frightened – says Kazimiera Sobczuk. The Banderites, however, did not enter the basement. at the top of the dungeon they set up a machine gun and fired. When it stopped, the Danube family left the basement and started running away towards Łasków. The Ukrainians stopped them around the bend. They lined up under the barrels of a rifle. I thought it was over. We were saved by a German who came running from the side of the cemetery in Łasków with a white flag on a stick. He ordered not to beat civilians. The Ukrainians were inconsolable. They said through their teeth: «ah, we would have done you in», but they let us go. We went towards the forester's lodge, and in the morning to Łaszczów and Tyszowce. We spent Easter 1944 there – says Kazimiera Sobczuk. Franciszka and Kazimierz Pukalukow with their several‑year‑old daughter Zofia managed to save themselves. They managed to break through to Perespa, where they spent the rest of the war. Stefania Szopińska née Pukaluk (mother of the head of Szopiński) and her brother Bronisław survived. – Mom was on the front lines. When she was retreating with her friends, an artillery shell fell next to them. Two friends died, my mother was covered with dirt and their bodies. Stunned. When the Ukrainians went to finish the wounded, they spared her. They thought he was a corpse – Lech Szopiński tells his mother's story. – The next day started. It was getting light already, and my search for loved ones was fruitless. While penetrating the battlefield, we saw terrible scenes. Indescribable views. Lots of killed and fallen friends and colleagues. Whole families are often murdered. Behind the mound, Regina Markiewiczówna, who looks alive, is kneeling, and nearby, lying on her back, dead Bolek Oleszak, with a cord around her neck left by a cut–off pistol. The young Liguns are still hugging each other. Józek «The Long One» had a small pistol in his hand. It looked as if he had committed suicide. Under the unburned shed of the host Bartosz, there were three Bartoszówna sisters standing against the wall, stiff with frost: aniela, Władzia, Lodzia, the most beautiful maids of this village – described the landscape after pacification by Zbigniew Ziembikiewicz. – at night, after the end of the fighting, both partisans and civilians collected the wounded and the dead. Quick burials were made. The heavily wounded were taken to hospital in Tomaszów Lubelski. The effort was so great that people fell from fatigue – recalls Bronisława Staszczuk–Walczyszyn pseudonym in his book Jutrzenka, who from January 1943 was in the branches of «Rys».
about 200 inhabitants of the village died in the pacification, including refugees from other towns. It was the last Polish village in this area. – Name list of victims is still being compiled. after the last jubilee celebrations in Smoligów, the list has already reached the hundred. The surnames of some of the murdered people cannot be recreated, because many refugees from Oszczów and Dołhobyczów were killed – says Lech Szopiński”.

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

source: Horbaczewski Robert, „1944. This was the case in Smoligów” — web page: roberthorbaczewski.pl [accessible: 2013.04.24]

When Poles returned to Smoligów years later, they found the bodies of the murdered in the wells. The wells have been filled in. „There were many such wells – cemeteries in Smoligów. There is no trace of most of them. People buried them, along with the dead bodies and their secrets. This was the case with the Jóźwiak, Czerniak and Jakubczak. At the Jóźwiak's place, the corpse emerged from the well, because the water rose after the thaw. People went to watch him. They remembered that he was wearing a Polish military uniform. – You could see he was a pretty boy. Dark blonde, curly hair. Just give him your hand to make him stand up. There was still some deceased under him. Jóźwiak filled this well. Now it would be even hard to indicate where it was located – says Kazimiera Sobczuk. – It was right by the road, there is no more trace – says her husband Tadeusz. The corpse in the well (although some say that by the well) was found by Edward Jakubczak. The body decay was so advanced that it was impossible to tell if it was male or female. Only the bones whitened. Jakubczak covered up the remains of the unfortunate man and filled the well. The well that was located next to the primary school building is also gone. It was to her that on March 27, 1944, the d/o the school guard, Karol Pukaluk, jumped out of fear of the Ukrainians. The girl drowned. Older people say that there were several dead bodies swimming in that well. People decided that the village wells should be covered with earth, but they would not be useful yet. Instead of soil, they poured slaked lime inside. For a couple of days the water was bubbling so strongly that the foam almost came out. It ate mosses from the cembrowiny and ate human remains. People drew water from it for several years after the war. Lech Szopiński, the head of Mircza and a regionalist at the same time, says that there is no certainty are all those drowned alive victims of the pacification of the village on March 27, 1944? They might have died later. – In 1945, and even in 1946, the Wowky” sotnya was still operating in the vicinity.

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

source: Horbaczewski Robert, „1944. This was the case in Smoligów” — web page: roberthorbaczewski.pl [accessible: 2013.04.24]

sotnya „Wowky” murdered at least 10 Poles: „Mayor Mircza reminds, for example, that on September 17, 1944 «sotnya of» wolves, as it was said on «sotnya Wowky» Marian Łukaszewycz «Jahoda» attacked harvesters working in Smolniigów. She brutally murdered at least 10 people, women and men, incl. Piotr Hawryluk, Ignacy and Marian Pukaluk, Jan and Janina Żukowska, 16‑year‑old Marcolówna from Łabuń was killed. – My father Jan managed to escape happily then. He left a sack of grain in the field. Then he recognized his sack in Kryłów, at the Ukrainian woman with whom we slept, but what could be done – says Kazimiera Sobczuk”.

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

source: Horbaczewski Robert, „1944. This was the case in Smoligów” — web page: roberthorbaczewski.pl [accessible: 2013.04.24]