In January 1943, Ukrainian policemen with the Germans arrested about 250–300 Poles in Stary Sambor, Felsztyn, Chyrów and Turka. At the beginning of February, they were taken to Lviv, and from there in a transport of about 800 people, to the concentration camp at Majdanek, which survived several people.

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

source: Szczygieł Józef, „I was one of the Lviv transport”; in: „We are witnesses. Memoirs of former Majdanek prisoners”, in: Lublin Publishing House, Lublin 1969, p. 112—146

The „The Ukrainians who were guarding the prisoners at Majdanek wore dark green uniforms with black collars, lapels, shoulder straps and cuffs at” sleeves.

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

source: Szczygieł Józef, „I was one of the Lviv transport”; in: „We are witnesses. Memoirs of former Majdanek prisoners”, in: Lublin Publishing House, Lublin 1969, p. 137—140

Recently, there have been numerous gang attacks on the Polish population living in the area of the former Polish Welfare Committee in Sambor. The largest number of such attacks took place in the Delegation in Turka n / Stryjem. For a thorough investigation of these incidents, I went in the company of Mr. Wasung, the clerk of the organization of the Polish Welfare Committee in Drohobycz on 24 May. to Turki n / Str., where the following status of the case was established on the spot. In August this year. a gang, consisting of three people, a certain Jarosz, the manager of the Liegenschaft in Bobrka ad Turka n / Str. At the time of the attack, the wife and s/o the deceased were present in the apartment. However, the perpetrators left the deceased's wife and son alone.

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

source: „1943, September 26 - Report of the PolKO Delegation in Sambor on attacks on the Polish population in the Turka region - a local vision of PolKO representatives”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/1, p. 317—320

In September 1943, the manager of the estate, Jarosz and his wife, was murdered.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; 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

The Ukrainians murdered 40 Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

[The Ukrainians] murdered 5 Poles. Others: In the village of Turka, county Chełm „On February 27, 1944, the Ukrainians shot 5 Poles NN”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 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