The UPA led the captured Poles to the barn, tied them up and set the barn on fire; 20 Poles were burned alive.

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

I would like to inform you that on March 19, 1945, a gang of about 30 people attacked the village of Werbka in the Koropiec region, who murdered 10 civilians with great cruelty, including Poles – 6 people and The Ukrainians – 4. After their arrival at the crime scene and as a result of the investigation found the following: a gang of about 30 entered the village of Werbka on March 19, 1945 at 6 am. During their stay in the village, the gang set up a guard – two–person mobile patrols that changed every hour. Any movement in the village was forbidden. Whenever someone was passing through the village, the gang stopped him and took him to the house where the bandits were. The detainees stayed in these houses until the gang left the village. The gang stayed in the village of Werbka until about 12 a.m. and retreated to the so–called Wuglerski forest. During their stay in the village, the bandits brutally murdered 10 civilians from the village of Werbka: 1. Domacki Józef s. Wiktor, 42—43, Polish nationality. 2. Domacka Justyna, 38, of Ukrainian nationality. 3. Domacki Michał s. Józef, age 15, Polish nationality. 4. Domacki Wiktor, age 75, Polish nationality. 5. Domacka Anna aged 70, Ukrainian nationality 6. Bandiak Ludwik aged 3, Polish nationality. 7. Bandiak Anna d/o Paweł, age 2, of Ukrainian nationality. 8. Bandiak Maria d/o Dmytr, age 65, of Ukrainian nationality 9. Bandiak Maria, d/o Paweł, age 6, Polish nationality 10. Zamlińska Janka d/o Jan, age 3, Polish nationality. The gang was armed with weapons of various systems: PPD, Russian rifles and „handheld machine guns of Diegtiariev”. The bandits were dressed in a variety of uniforms: Red Guards, such as overcoats, caps with earflaps, shoes or boots, and the uniform of a German soldier, they had no distinctions.

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

source: „Special report of the head of the NKGB RO in Koropiec to the head of the UNKGB of the Tarnopol region of March 21, 1945”

source: „Special report of the head of the NKGB RO in Koropiec to the head of the UNKGB of the Tarnopol region of March 21, 1945”; in: „Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s”, in: Warsaw-Kiev 2005, vol. 4, part 1, p. 1235 — web page: zbrodniawolynska.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

H. Komański et Sz. Siekierka  […] document the murder of 20 Poles on the night of February 19–20, 1945, but there are no victims of the above–mentioned persons. The contents of the report show that two Polish–Ukrainian families of 9 people and a 3‑year‑old girl were murdered. The son, who is Polish father in the document, is assigned Polish nationality, daughter, Ukrainian mother by Ukrainian mother. The tradition of such marriages was that the son accepts the father's faith, while the daughter accepts the mother's faith, which was not always related to the nationality. It is also worth paying attention to the fact that the UPA group did not wear „UPA uniforms”, as the legends of Ukrainian historians say today.

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

source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 177