[The Ukrainians] murdered 11 Poles. „On August 17, 1944, Kupiak launched a bandit attack on the Wodaje hamlet belonging to the village of Grabowa. at his order, the barn was set on fire, in which: Michał Woźniak, Helena Bułkowska, Helena Gryszczuk, Włodzimierz Seniuk, Maria Babijczuk, fifteen‑year‑old Stefania Babijczuk, Eugeniusz Seń, three children aged six to eight, and Józef, Kazimierz and Bolesław Bułkowski hid. The bandits escaping from the burning barn were shot with machine guns: Seń, Babijczuk and Bułkowski were killed, while the wounded Michał Woźniak managed to escape, the rest were burned in the barn. at the same time, the bandits plucked out Babijczuk's eyes and Seni's hands were chopped off. The testimony of the witness Smaga about the attack on the village of Wodaje describes these events as follows: «a few days after the murders of Fabianska and Mikhailov, Kupiak led our fight and the forest gang ‹Sołowija› to the chutor Wodaje near the village of Grabowa. Someone reported that the people to be liquidated had hid in one barn. On Kupiak's orders, Bogdan Czuczman and others tried to break into the barn, but the door was locked from the inside. Then the warlord ordered the automatic fire to be opened, but the people inside were silent. Then, on Kupiak's orders, his brother Michał ‹General› lit a straw thatch from the rocket launcher. In the barn there was screaming and crying of women and children. Kupiak ordered to shoot the people escaping from the barn. Several men jumped out but were killed. Women and children were burned in the barn. Their fault was that they were Polish»”.

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

source: Szeremeta Bronisław, „Warlord - his crimes and false memories”, in: Wrocław, 2000 — web page: www.nawolyniu.pl [accessible: 2022.04.06]

In the village of Grabowa, in the hamlet of Wodaje, county Kamionka Strumiłowa, militants from SB‑OUN and local The Ukrainians surrounded the barn with Poles in hiding and set it on fire; 10 Poles were burnt alive, including a mother with 3 children under 8 years of age. They caught the fleeing 15‑year‑old Stefania Babijczuk, whose eyes were gouged out before her death, and the man (Eugeniusz Seń) had both hands cut off. In total, they murdered 12 Poles.

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