The UPA and local The Ukrainians murdered at least 65 Poles. About 40 people, including women and children, were burned alive in the smithy; 18–month–old Leszek Bardyga was found near the clay pits, sucking on the breast of his murdered mother (Leszek's twin sister, Alicja, was also murdered). Wargocka, who is in the last month of pregnancy, will open her abdomen to help „give birth to Lacha”; the old man named Primate The Ukrainians beheaded his head with a scythe.

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. 823

From this village, a mother and a child managed to escape to the village of Dziegciów – and was murdered there. In Smołowa, at the beginning of July, a Ukrainian who was supposed to drive a Polish woman with his 3‑year‑old son and her 5‑year‑old sister to Włodzimierz shot them just outside the village. „I was thirteen at the time. My parents lived there for generations. We had fun, it was in the evening. and so I look – someone is on fire. and we looked out the window, went outside, and here the fire is close, the village is burning. But it was a rare village, so fire shouldn't be able to move it [alone]. Dad says: «We go with mum to save belongings (machine, grinder) to the barn». And they went to the barn and we kids stayed home. Dad wanted to run away with mum, but mum did not agree. She said she would rather perish than leave the children alone. When they left the yard, they were already there. Dad knew them. He began to ask them: «Save your life, after all we were doing bad things together, hosted what I owed you?». I don't remember their names. They said that «Enough for you Lachom, what have you eaten on our evil, drink our blood!». And we came to the apartment, we knelt at the table, my mother took the cross in her hand, and in the other hand she was holding her nine–month–old son, Edzia. Dad began to ask: «Don't feel sorry for our bullets, shoot us, just don't murder!». and they released the series, and my mother fell, this cross held in her hand, and she flew at the child – I don't know if it was killed or suffocated. Then my mother died, two younger sisters, six‑year‑old Halina and four‑year‑old Krysia, and this boy. The six‑year‑old jumped on the bed and covered herself, and he started beating her with something. During this time, I passed out from this fear. How much did I lay so I do not know. When I woke up, I was really thirsty, I remember sucking the blood from the floor. They brought straw and set the apartment on fire, the windows were already broken. The floor began to smolder and collapsed, the fire dimmed. When I woke up, I flooded the fire – the water was in the house. I walked over to my mother. Mom was dead, and Daddy tells me to run away because he won't be able to do it because he's badly injured. I ran through the window to an orchard, under a jasmine bush. The countryside is burning everywhere here, fire is everywhere, dogs are howling. and her sister, Gienia, two years older, was somewhere in the orchard when they attacked her. at that time, when they came, she was throwing away some clothes, supplies from the chamber and they had to get her here. after the attack I hid [later] in the grain. at night in the morning I woke up because it had turned cold. I had my left hand shot through the bullet went right through and my left side hurt. I heard moans and it was my dad who left the house, his arm muscles torn out. He was very thirsty. I took some water, gave it to my father. When I was returning, I met my sister in the orchard. She asked to give her something to cover and something to cover. I brought her a pillow and some blanket. When I came around noon during the day, she was dead. Her insides were visible and her head was beaten. at that time, the six‑year‑old was still alive, but her head was all blue. The four‑year‑old was dead. On the day [July 13], we [with my father] were sitting in grain, but there was a storm, we came home at night, we slept in the kitchen, and the beaten were lying in the room. The next day [July 14] was also spent in the field, and in the evening our sixteen‑year‑old neighbor Rutkowski came, because they had all fled to Włodzimierz earlier. He returned to his farm because they had a trunk with clothes buried, but the trunk was gone. We caught the horses together, I helped him harness them. We put Dad on a wagon and started running away to Włodzimierz. It is 12 km and through Ukrainian villages. When we were driving through the forest, they shot after us, but we managed to pass. There were already Germans there [beyond the forest], and Poles were looking for something, some food. The Germans stopped us, but they saw how we were beaten, they let us go. Our aunt and her husband of Ukrainian origin, who lived near Włodzimierz in Białozowszczyzna, were waiting for us. Dad was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for six months. In about two months we went [with my uncle] with the Germans to see the fire site. It turned out that the bandits came for the second time, right after our departure, and set everything on fire for the second time. If we stayed a little longer, they would surely kill us too. The sister in the orchard was lying where she died. Someone only slightly covered her with earth and turf. When we arrived, we collected heads and some bones from the fire and put them next to my sister. Uncle struck such a cross out of a birch tree and placed there”.

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

source: Kędra-Załoga Ewa, „Account of Leokadia Janeczko née Wargacki”, 2009; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.04.11]

A Ukrainian who was supposed to take a 22‑year‑old Polish woman from the village with her 3‑year‑old son and 5‑year‑old sister shot them right after they left the village.

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

I joined the self–defense in Włodzimierz Wołyński, and I, in the fall of 1943, went with other Polish and German soldiers for an action as a carter. Our destination was the village of Smołowa, when we got there we stopped at the Catholic church and went inside because it was open. We saw a macabre picture, there was a lot of dried blood on the wooden floor of the Church, even then we were almost sure that no one had slaughtered the pig here. Besides, the temple was in very good condition. Later our predictions came true, when we learned that in Smołowa, in the Church, Ukrainian nationalists murdered a great many Poles. The temple was a bit off the beaten track  […] Many years after the war, when I once again participated in the Congress of 27 WDPAK, I met one of the soldiers of our division, resident of the former Polish colony of Smołów. Unfortunately, I don't remember his name anymore, but we were talking then about this blood on the floor of the Church, and he said: „In our church in Smołowa, the Ukrainians murdered many Poles during the Holy Mass!” I remember that he even mentioned some of the names of the victims that he knew, but unfortunately I can't remember those people as well.

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

source: Roch Sławomir Tomasz, „Recollections of Eugeniusz Świstowski from the Teresin colony in the Włodzimierz Wołyński county in Volhynia”; in: portal: Volhynia, in: Zamosc 2003 — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.04.06]

My great–grandfather's name is Antoni, his name is Jonak and he came from Kolonia Smołów. My grandmother (Antoni's daughter was named Bronisława). She died during the massacre in Volhynia in 1943, together with her husband and my grandfather Władysław Sołoduchin (or Sołoducha).

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

source: Zadrożna Teresa, April 30, 2014