In the fight against the UPA, 32 Poles were killed in self–defense and 18 people were murdered with axes and burned alive. „On May 12, 1943 the UPA attacked the village, armed with machine guns and automatic small arms. The Poles had a few hand rifles that they obtained from the Germans and, despite the superior strength of the attacker, they repelled the attack. On the Polish side, the losses amounted to 32 killed, and on the enemy – probably a dozen or so. The following people died in battle: Stanisław Bułgajewski, age 20; Marcin Bułgajewski; Bronisław Brodnicki, 32; Stanisław Łoś, 37; Edward Pinecki, age 36; Sigismud Wilczyński, 30, a man from the village of Czajków, approx. 19, In addition, people not participating in the fight were murdered, among others: Stanisław Andrzejewski (hacked with an ax); Gruszkowski (the corpse of the shot UPA was chopped up when they found a rifle), his son Franciszek (hacked with an ax); Albina Bułgajewska (shot and then burned); Dominik Makarewicz, 25 (murdered by ripping his abdomen with a bayonet); Szczęsny Makarewicz (shot); Michalina Makarcwicz (shot while escaping into the field); Gustaw Makarewicz, 5 (killed with sticks); members of the Pierzecki family; Wiktorowicz (hacked with an ax). There would be no casualties among the non–combatants if it were not for the panic that arose among those in the shelters (also known as trenches) when the UPA set fire to houses on the outskirts. Then some left the shelters and ran into the fields. During this escape, they were caught and murdered. Many houses were burned down by”.

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

source: Bukowski Zygmunt, „Poroda”; in: portal: Volhynia pages, Branch Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Wrocław, in: Wroclaw 2008 — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

In the second robbery, the UPA murdered about 10 Poles, including 5 children who grazed the cows, and killed them with pitchforks. „On May 15, 1943, the UPA attacked again, but with less force, and were quickly repulsed. On the Polish side, a few people who were outside the colony were killed, grazing cows (5 children were slaughtered with pitchforks) and working in the field. One of the attacked women survived. but one breast was cut off (the other was nursing a baby). A self–defense group from the colony of Parośla II (Antonówka commune) and the alerted Germans, who captured three UPA members and hanged them in Włodzimierz at the gate of the church, came to help. Then the Germans gathered a dozen Poles, gave them weapons and took them with them to pacify Ukrainian villages, from which the” attacks were organized.

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

source: Bukowski Zygmunt, „Poroda”; in: portal: Volhynia pages, Branch Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Wrocław, in: Wroclaw 2008 — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

The UPA murdered several Poles working in the field.

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

In the next attack, the UPA murdered 22 Poles. „The Polish colony of Stachówka had 72 homesteads. In the face of more and more dangerous announcements, the Polish population from the colonies: Brzezina, Czajków, Karczemka, Mosty (all in the Włodzimierzec commune), and the villages: Jezioro, Kanonicze (both in the Włodzimierzec commune) arrived in Stachówka before the Green Holidays. June 13, 1943 (Pentecost) during the third Ukrainian attack on Stachówka. the colony alerted the self–defense in the colony of Poroda (Włodzimierzec commune), from which 30 reinforcements immediately arrived. The entire colony was surrounded by UPA who fired two machine guns across the colony. One machine gun was placed on a tree, the other on a dry well. at the same time, the Ukrainians attacked with bayonets mounted on sticks, axes and pitchforks. Local self–defense fought off attacks. The whole village was on fire. The help from Poroda liquidated both machine gun positions and, surprising the attackers from the rear, took five and shot a few. In the morning, armored cars with the German army from Włodzimierz came to Stachówka, which caused a panic escape of the attackers. The five attackers caught by the self–defense were shot by the Germans, and three of them, who did not want to admit participation in the attack, had their fingers cut off earlier. The colony burned down completely. 22 people were buried in a common grave. according to the report for June 1943, «of the first group» of the UPA Military District «Zahrawa», 60 Poles were killed during this attack, and the Ukrainian losses amounted to 17 dead and 5 wounded. The date of the attack, ie June 16, is also different. after three weeks of harassment with robberies and burning the houses, the forces decreased and the ammunition ran out, it was decided to leave Stachówka. Fifty families moved to the colony of Wydymer and Parośla II (both in the commune of antonówka), some to Poroda, Prurwa (both in the commune of Włodzimierzec) and to Włodzimierz. along the way, significant casualties were still made of the dead and wounded (number not established). Then the people of Stachówka evacuated to Sam”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Bukowski Zygmunt, „Childbirth”, fragment, in: Wroclaw 2008

source: „The vestibule of hell - June 1943 in Volhynia”

„After escaping from Czajków, we lived in Stachówka for less than a month. My family took refuge here in the hope that it would be safer. Unfortunately, the fate was such that after the UPA band's raid on Stachówka, part of our family, miraculously saved, was forced to flee further. On June 13, 1943, I survived the UPA band's attack on Stachówka. I remember the UPA, armed with machine guns and rifles, circling the entire colony on all sides. With them were many The Ukrainians from nearby villages, armed with pitchforks and axes. There were several hundred attackers. First, they fired machine guns and rifles at the village, some buildings started to burn from incendiary bullets. The sparse and poorly armed Polish self–defense tried to resist. The UPA with screaming «hurray» and screaming «rizat 'Lachiw» stormed in three places between the houses of the colony. They murdered everyone they encountered with forks, axes and bayonets. They shot at the escaping people. Some of them murdered, others robbed their belongings and set fire to buildings. During this attack, my mother Franciszek Redzik (40) was murdered. She died of bayonet stab wounds all over her body. My cousin, Henryk Redzik (22), was cruelly murdered. First, his hands were broken off his shoulders. I heard him scream out loud in pain. I was lying in bed a few meters from him. After a while I heard the shot that ended his life with Banderowiec. Banderowiec found me in the corn, but he felt sorry for the bullet for me, I was hit with a rifle butt and happily survived. 22 people were killed then. The number of victims would probably have been much greater if not for the help of German soldiers from the garrison in Włodzimierz, who by surprise shot UPA with machine guns, killing or injuring a dozen. Our self–defense captured 16 UPA with weapons, shot 10 of them on the order of the Germans, and hanged 6 by the Germans in the square in Włodzimierz. Under their protection, the murdered inhabitants of Stachówka were buried”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Redzik Henryk, „I was a witness”, Jelenia Góra 2002

During the evacuation of 50 surviving families, they murdered dozens of Poles.

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