[The Ukrainians] kidnapped and murdered Dr. Stanisław Kaliniewicz, the head of the hospital in Kołomyja; „The doctor was bayoneted, three bullets in his head, one broken leg, the other bare, his back burnt to the bone”.

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

source: Jastrzębski Stanisław, „The genocide of the Polish population by the OUN-UPA in the province stanisławowski in 1939-1945”, in: Warsaw 2004, p. 183

source: „In the Outlands”, in: No. 33—34/1999

During the night raid, the Bandera followers burned down most of the Polish farms and the church and murdered 102 Poles, including 36 Poles they burnt alive in the church. „The cemetery and the graves where the murdered Poles were buried are no more, it has been completely devastated, and here is a pasture for cattle”.

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

source: Solińska Paulina, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 317—318

The Banderites murdered at least 102 Poles, including 36 Poles burned alive in the church that was set on fire. „Most of the Poles lived near the church, and most of the Ruthenians lived near the church. In the evening of March 30, 1944, the Banderites recruited among local Ruthenians met in the church, where the torturers agreed which Poles would be murdered. The signal to start the murders was the arson of the Roman Catholic church in Szeszory.The Roman Catholic church in Szeszory was set on fire by Ruthenians who left the church (about 2 km up Pistynka from the church) with the tools of the crime blessed by local Greek Catholic priests and went to the church. after the church was set on fire, the murder of Poles and the burning of their homes began, which lasted from 23 in the evening to around five in the morning. No one was spared, neither several–month–old babies, several‑year‑old children, and pregnant women were murdered in such a way as to inflict as much pain as possible, including burning related Poles alive. Ruthenians murdered mainly with axes and bayonets, because they felt bad for the missiles for defenseless Poles, old people, women and children. The Poles did not even try to resist, they only tried to escape. Nobody expected that they would murder women and children, which is why the most of them died, because they were not able to escape into the frosty and snowy March night – there was no faith in the barbarity of Ruthenian neighbors, it was hoped that women and children would not be killed. Polish houses with their inhabitants and the church were burned down. In one night, the community of over 490 Hutsuls of Polish origin ceased to exist – at least 102 Poles were murdered and those who survived were forced to flee. With great sadness it should be noted the events in which the closest family ties in mixed families turned out to be weaker than murderous nationalism. The fact is that the Ruthenian wife that night gave her husband and son to the Bandera followers and watched their execution. The fact is that the Banderist Rus that night allowed to kill his daughter's two tiny sons (his grandchildren, one of whom was still a few months old baby) because the father of the grandchildren was Polish. When his daughter was defending her sons, she was hit on the head with an ax. He allowed his grandchildren to be killed on the orders of the Banderites for «free Ukraine», as if these children were Ukraine's greatest enemies. The fact is that that night the daughter gave up her Polish father and brother and they were killed in her presence, in April 1943, she succumbed to the Ukrainian terror and left the Roman Catholic Church in the Greek Catholic Church. Not only did she give up her Polishness and became Ukrainian, but she joined the Bandera followers to prove her Ukrainianness with the murders of her closest relatives. Years later, everyone deeply regretted it – they were victims of Ukrainian indoctrination. When today you ask Szeszor Greek Catholic clergy what happened to the church, you will hear that «burned down during the war» – they would like to blame the Soviets with that. It is not surprising, since they were the ringleaders of the murders in Szeszory and they themselves ordained the tools of the crime and blessed the murderers in their church at night just before «the action» of murdering Poles. Today, when asked where the murder victims are buried, they pretend not to know. Meanwhile, the front passed through Szeszory a few months after the church was set on fire. The church was set on fire on the night of March 30–31, 1944, when the Soviets had not yet entered Pistynia. It happened that the Ruthenian neighbors, who brutally abused the victims in the evening, in the morning were extremely helpful and sympathetic to the families of those killed who did not know that these Ruthenian «friends» were torturers, e.g. in Kosovo a neighbor who participated in slow burning alive the victims on the second day were intrusively offered to make a coffin and help the family in the burial, disavowing his involvement in the murder. Most of the Banderites from Szeszory and their supporters were sent to Siberia, from where they returned after 1956. Today, they and their descendants form the black and red chauvinist vanguard in Szeszory”.

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

source: web page: www.szeszory.3-2-1.pl [accessible: 2010.01.01]