The UPA massacred Poles: „My father was carrying a 4‑year‑old boy on a ram, they fled from the Ukrainians. From time to time the boy asked if” had already been shot.

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

source: Petrowicz Tadeusz, „From Czarnohora to Białowieża”, in: Lublin 1986, p. 95

The UPA robbed and burned down some Polish houses, destroyed the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady and murdered 72 Poles; Jan Wydra found their grave with the help of Józef Smereczyński in 1989.

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

On New Year's Eve from December 31, 1944 to January 1, 1945, the UPA murdered 72 Poles, including the Wydra family of eight. The UPA unit under the command of the gamekeeper Hawryła Dederczuk surrounded the village with a cordon. Then the UPA spread throughout the countryside, entered Polish houses and murdered Poles, regardless of gender and age, with axes, knives and bayonets. After the murder, Ukrainian women entered the farmyards and took the property of the dead on their sleighs. The slaughter was interrupted by a branch of the Soviet army stationed in the „Oaza” boarding house, alerted by the d/o the legionnaire Solowija. The bodies of the dead were buried on January 2, 1945 with the help of Soviet soldiers in a mass grave at the Greek Catholic church in Worokhta. Their graves were found with the help of Józef Smereczyński in 1989 by Jan Wydra.

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