Here is the testimony of Witalij Surmacz (Polish nationality), an inhabitant of the village of Ladyń in the Lubomelskie region, about how the Ukrainians saved him: „I was 13 when our family was attacked. Four bandits came to us. Me, my mother and my sister were chased into a hut and my father was bludgeoned in the orchard. The attackers killed my mother with a blow on the doorstep, and my sister Lida (18) in a hut. I hid on the stove in the pots. One of the strikers came and said: «There should be another somewhere here». But then they started beating my sister and they didn't look for me anymore. I sat there for an hour before I left. I saw my sister with a broken head, holding her bed, and my dead mother, and I went to Stawki, to my mother's brother. On the way, Tryfon Markovych Vlasiuk took me on a cart and on the way, we met my family's killers. They were armed with axes and rifles. They talked to Tryfon Markovych and let us go. When we came to my uncle, Tryfon Vlasiuk told him: «Take the boy and don't let him out of the house. Let stay with you for a while». And so I stayed in Stawki”.

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

source: Olchowski Iwan, „They saved the innocent, risking their own lives”; in: Zińczuk Aleksandra (idea, selection, edit), „Reconciliation through difficult memory. Volhynia 1943”, „Panorama of Cultures” Association, in: Lublin 2012

The UPA massacred from 24 to 66 Poles. „The road from Włodzimierz Wołyński to Lubomlo leads to Ładyń. Behind the village of Stawki, we turn left and follow a dirt road, after 2–3 km, we reach the place. There is a cross in the fields behind the village. – Here, where storms grow, there used to be a beautiful village – said Fr prelate Andrzej Puzon  […] – We lived in harmony with Poles, because they were good people – told us 76‑year‑old Anna. It was in her field that the cross stood. – It is not known who and why he killed – said a Ukrainian, who was 8 years old in August 1943. – My father, who liked Polish neighbors very much, had to bury them here afterwards. According to her, the bodies of 24 – 26 Poles are buried in the grave. 81‑year‑old Wincenty Surmacz, who lived in Ładyń after the war, claims that there were 37 victims. She comes from a mixed family, her father was Polish, her mother was Ukrainian. But the torturers knew no mercy – they killed both of them. – My sister and my father's sister and her three children also died – says Surmacz, who is ill today. He managed to survive because he hid in the oven. – We know who, what and how killed, but they are gone. They are also in the ground – says Mr. Wincenty”.

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: Wójtowicz Leszek, „Another cross is standing”; in: „Eastern Journal”, in: 28 July 2011

The cross stands thanks to the efforts of 83‑year‑old Franciszka Prus from Włodzimierz Wołyński. „Ms Franciszka claims that 66” compatriots died in Ładyń. This village, and therefore this murder, is not mentioned.

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: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000

Orthodox feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: they murdered 4 Poles: Stanisława Uszyńska, her daughter–in–law Wanda and 2 grandchildren.

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]