On the way, they kidnapped 4 Poles in a wagon: a young married couple and the wife's 20‑year‑old sister with her fiancé, all of them disappeared without a trace. „The Chairman of our Delegation in Bóbrka, Mr. Urbański, informs us that on 2nd May. On the road between Sokołówka and Milbach, the wealthy Polish farmer Marian Prystański from Berteszów [Bóbrka] disappeared with a cart and horses without a trace. At the same time, his wife Maria, his sister Anna Trznadel, and her fiancé N. Margiel, the postal manager from Chlebowice Wielkie, also went missing without a trace. All searches have so far yielded no result. These were last seen on the evening of a critical day leaving the house of a Ukrainian who operated an” oil mill.

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

source: „1943, October 26 - Letter from PolKO Lwów-poviat to the RGO Delegate in Lviv regarding the murders of Poles committed by Ukrainian nationalists”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 207

The Banderites murdered 11 Poles.

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

On March 7, 44 they were murdered: 1–5. Ćwik Józef aged approx. 40–55; Rozenberg, Henryk, age 70; Szmid Adam, 70, and his son Jan, 40; Wąsala Wacław, the teacher's father, aged 70.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; 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

During the second attack, the Ukrainians murdered 12 Poles; „On. On March 8, 12 people in Sokołówka” were slaughtered with axes.

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

source: „News from the Eastern Lands”, no 8 (excerpts); in: „Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s”, in: Warsaw-Kiev 2005, vol. 4, part 2, p. 195 — web page: zbrodniawolynska.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

[The Ukrainians] made them lie down on the doorsteps and chopped off their heads with axes. They demolished and burned the church, destroyed the presbytery, the parish priest, Fr Jasiński took refuge in Biłka Szlachecka. And: „On the list of murdered I did not find my 2 uncles: murdered in Sokołówka (probably March 1943 or 44). They are Mikołaj Bielawski, Roman Bartman and my mother's neighbors: Kucharski Janusz, Kucharski Michał and Kucharski Piotruś, 6 years old. My mother was 13 at the time and therefore she can be wrong every year. They were cruelly murdered with knives. They suffered for hours and died from the loss of blood. Please put them on the list. It was a town called Sokołówka near Bóbrka. I repeated the place because there are two Sokołówka” in Ukraine.

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

source: Judka Jolanta — web page: www.kresy-ludobójstwo.pl [accessible: 2019.03.06]

Siekierka et al.  […] give the number of 8 Poles, including the name Bielański, the rest are NN.

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

source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 26

The Ukrainians murdered Przystański, second lieutenant. WP reserves.

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