In Zady settlement, part of Wołoszcza village in Drohobych county, OUN militants burned all 52 Polish farms, a school, a village office and murdered 35 Poles and „an unknown number of men burned up in the” fire.

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

source: Motyka Grzegorz, „Ukrainian guerrilla 1942-1960”, in: Warsaw 2006, p. 387

H. Komański et Sz. Siekierka give the number of 40 murdered Poles (in the village of Wołoszcza).

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; 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

The robbery began at 12 o'clock in the morning. From the direction of the village of Dorożów, 37–50 carts and about 20 people on saddled horses came along a field road among the vast Transnistrian pastures, along the left bank of the Bystrzyca River, to the village of Tynów to the hamlet of Zady, where 26 people were murdered (including 25 Poles, 1 Ukrainian shot by mistake, because he was running away) and 36 homesteads of Polish peasants were burnt. The attack lasted until 3.30, after which the bandits returned the same way. Moreover, they carried out a thorough robbery of things, shot and took 16 pigs and kidnapped a dozen or so horses. Many residents fled straight from their beds, some even without clothes or shoes. The perpetrators are Ukrainian nationalists. In the surrounding, purely Ukrainian villages, many deserters from the Ukrainian SS division are hiding, from the Construction Service and from those assigned to work in Germany and deserters from the Ukrainian auxiliary police. The attackers all have weapons, including machine guns, automatic pistols, rifles, revolvers, and hand grenades, which they throw into their homes. These deserters lead and organize the raids, while the local population provides three–quarters of the attackers, horses and carts.

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

source: „1944, April 18 - Letter from PolKO from Drohobycz to the RGO in Krakow with attachments regarding the position of the Polish population in the Drohobycz poviat in connection with attacks by Ukrainian nationalists and the passive attitude of the German authorities towards the threat to the life and property of the Polish population”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/1, p. 141—142, 343—344, 347—356

18‑year‑old Eugenia Badecka, a beautiful girl, d/o the headmaster of the school in Zady, was burnt alive in her house, and the old couple, Franciszek and Marcela Badecki, burnt there. They were not Eugenia's grandparents. I know from stories that the Banderites crucified alive on the wall of 14–15‑year‑old Ludwik Gabrysz's house, and then set fire to the building.

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

source: Rygiel Franciszek, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 200

My aunt said that her son was murdered in Majnicz right after the murder in Zady. It was so that at night a few Banderites came to my aunt's house and ordered her son Franciszek Badecki to get out of bed and show the way. They took him out of the house and his body was found the next day buried in a bog. The body had its arms twisted backwards with barbed wire, and the mouth also had pierced lips and barbed wire twisted.

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

source: Nieczypor Grzegorz, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 197

The second part of the tragedy took place with Maria Badecka and her son. Banderites came and took them both. They raped her, had her breasts cut and shot, and the child was tied to two bent trees which, straightening, tore them apart. The farmhand watched the scene from hiding.

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

source: Badecka Jadwiga, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 188

The murder took place on April 29 in the village of Łąka, county Sambor, where she fled with her son from the hamlet of Zady after the slaughter on April 10–11.

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

Myrosław Onyszkewycz „Orest Karat” gave the order: „I order you to purge your area immediately from the Polish element and Ukrainian–Bolshevik agents. The purge should be carried out in riverside hostels sparsely populated by Poles. To this end, create a militia near the area, composed of our members, whose task would be to eliminate the above–mentioned. Our larger hostels will be cleared of this element by our military units even in broad daylight  […] The clearing of the area must be completed before our Easter so that we can celebrate it without Poles. Remember that when the Bolsheviks find us with Poles in our territory, they will slaughter us all  […] Make a hard, ruthless fight with them. Not to spare anyone, even in mixed marriages. To take Lachs out of their houses, but The Ukrainians and children in these houses should not be liquidated  […] Get the gun. Death to the Poles. Stop, April 6, 1944. Glory to the heroes! Orest, Karat” This order is in the files of the investigation against Myroslav Onyshhevych.

source: Miszko Przemysław, Matkowski Krzysztof, „Crimes of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Eastern Lesser Poland in 1939—1945 against persons of Polish nationality - in the light of investigations by OKŚZPNP in Wrocław”; in: „Crimes of the past, studies and materials of IPN prosecutors”, in: Warszawa 2008, vol. 2 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]