During the night raid, they robbed and burned 108 Polish farms and murdered at least 22 Poles. M. in. They tied the 22‑year‑old wounded Jan Kryszczyna with barbed wire and burned him alive; Józefa Gacek, 18, was stabbed with knives. The slaughter was interrupted by the advancing Soviet troops. „On the night of March 22–23, 1944, the Germans began to flee, and the Bandera followers attacked our village. Eighty–six numbers were burned down by one in the morning. They doused every house with gasoline and set fire to it. And the one who was close to the other caught fire by itself. And twenty–two people were killed during that night. There was a girl who sat quietly at home, did nothing to anyone, maybe a little disabled. She was not eighteen yet. They killed her too. Several daggers [she got – AB]. It was a very hard experience. My neighbour, He was twenty–three years old, only child. They caught it, tied it with barbed wire from apple to apple tree, and underneath it was a pile of straw and set it on fire. And he burned, I saw, because he is a neighbor, so how not to look? His mother couldn't remember what she was even doing. She showed us how she knew it was her son. He had a lighter that stayed because it all burned out. Flesh burned, black as coal, only teeth white. There were very unpleasant experiences. So twenty–two people gathered. Also one young married woman with her son. They had a house newly built in brick, beautiful  […] Sosulska [my friend – AB] ran from one village to another, she had parents–in–law there, because the other village was not on fire yet. And when she was carrying a two‑year‑old boy, they shot him and killed him on the spot. And Jasia Sosulski, brother a year younger, the grandmother was carrying it. The bullet flew by the head and her grandmother cut her finger, but the baby was okay. A mother with a killed child was injured. It was next to the priest of the garden, some Bandera, such with pity, threw it on the straw. Then another one came and took her to the first houses and they dressed her there. It was lucky. And they left the killed child in this straw. They did not take the child with her because he was already dead, it was no longer necessary. It was the night of March 22–23. And right in the morning the Russians came. These [Banderites – AB] did not finish burning further numbers, because they said they would finish. They ran away  […] And one more young woman, tall, as my sister was. They hung her on a signpost near her gate almost. She was still alive, it was her with daggers. And the boy came on vacation from the army. Mother says although you should wait a little longer at home, as a mother takes pity on her son. She took a cube of butter, she carried it to these soldiers, extended his vacation. And those Bandera followers came by night and hung him on a crane [from the well – AB]. It was the mother who gave butter to hang her son. Life was very hard. We went to sleep, it was all hiding. Clothes even for the stables under the cow manger were carried, wrapped in something. Because they came at night and robbed. They also came during the day, for example this woman that I told her was during the day, broad daylight. She was at work, at the cutting room, where she threshing the grain. And they took her from the wanderer and hung her, and by the morning there was nothing in the house, everything was taken. Terrible things were happening. Once, such a Rogowski, a young boy worked at the post office, lost in broad daylight”.

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

source: Czarnecka Stanisława – the report was prepared by Katarzyna Bock and edited by Artur Brzozowski