The Banderites murdered 7 Poles, the following died: Jasińska Domicela, 44, Jasińska Władysława, 32, Jarzycka Stanisława, 10, Kulikowska Genowefa, 41, Łapiak Anastazja, 38, Łapiak Kazimierz, 10, Tyc Józef, 40.

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

source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003

The UPA, returning from the pogrom of Poles in Barycz to their base in the area of the village of Zubrzec, spent the whole day catching Poles and gathering them in a large, empty tobacco drying room, they spent around 60–70 Poles tied with strings and wires, closed the drying room, poured petrol or kerosene on and set it on fire. They were all burned alive, mostly women and children. a group of Polish women with children was locked in one of the houses and subjected to beating interrogations in order to obtain information about self–defense in the neighboring village of Puźniki. after interrogating the prisoners, they were shot or hacked with axes. Władysława Jasińska had a noose around her neck and was dragged across the floor until she died. In the evening, the perpetrators carried the bodies of those killed in one place, poured them with kerosene and burned them. also, 11 houses were burned down and living people were thrown into the fire. One of the „judgments” of the Ukrainian „Court”, i.e. the OUN court, issued here was: „Józef Tyc, 40, married, three children. For walking on Ukrainian soil, one hour of caning by two «striltsi» [shooters], burned alive after the whip”.

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

source: Markowski Franciszek, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 671

I would like to ask you to include my grandmother, Klementyna Stefańska, on the list of victims. She was murdered on February 7, 1945 in Zalesie, county Buchach. She is buried in Monasterzyska on February 11, 1945. From the stories told by the family, today I know that it was a large group of people who, due to the threat of an attack by the UPA, were assigned a military convoy. Despite this, they were attacked, people who did not want to get off the finger of a ring or ring were simply cut off the fingers. Then they drove them all to a barn and burned them alive. My dad only recognized my mother's body by the melted medal, but it was hidden under a sweater and so they didn't find it.

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

source: Izabela

On February 8, in Zalesie, 4 km away from Puźniki, a massacre of Poles living there, as well as Ukrainian neighbors defending them, was carried out. Miller Jarosław Danyłewycz, s/o a Ukrainian and Polish woman, who tried to oppose the massacre, was tied to a sleigh and wandered along dirt roads. After several dozen kilometers, the tortured man was hit with a stone slab so that he would die in agony. His mother, Bronisława, was burnt alive in a tobacco drying room along with a group of other Poles. In Zalesie there were also the inhabitants of Puźnik, as well as the neighboring Nowosiółka, seized by the Banderites from the roads. A teenaged Danuta Borkowska with her grandmother and Maria Jarzycka, Władysława Jasińska, Anastazja Łapiak, Domicela Jasińska and Genowefa Kulikowska with their children were taken to one of the houses, where attempts were made to use torture to extort information about Polish self–defense in Puźniki. Władysława Jasińska was put on a noose around her neck and dragged across the floor until she died, other women were hacked with axes or shot. Danuta Borkowska survived the massacre: „I regained my consciousness at dawn and I saw dead grandma Borkowska and little Stasia Jarzycka lying next to me. Then an old Ukrainian, my father's friend, entered the room. When he saw this, he began to cry and curse at the Banderites. He asked me to go with him, he would save me. He picked me up, and when I stood on my own feet, I felt more confident, I could walk on my own. I took advantage of it and started to run towards Punik”.

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

source: Dancewicz Maciej, „Destruction of Puźnik” — web page: archiwum.rp.pl [accessible: 2008.07.10]

On February 7, 1945, the band of UPA „Bystry” entered the territory of the Koropiecki district from the side of the Buczacki region of the Tarnopol Oblast. It circled the village of Zalesie, never letting anyone out of the village until late evening. Then, in the aforementioned village, the gang carried out a pogrom of Polish and Ukrainian civilians. She burned down 11 houses of people living there and brutally murdered 37 civilians. During the pogrom, the bandits chased the local population to one of the houses, cruelly tortured and then murdered both adults and children. Then they placed the dead in one place, poured kerosene on them and set them on fire. Some inhabitants were thrown into the fire alive. When leaving the village, the gang took with them the mill manager, Danilewicz, who, while chasing the gang, the murdered man was found on the road near the village of Złota Lipa [?] in the district of Stańisławów District. As a result of the massacre by bandits in the village of Zalesie, 37 civilians were murdered: Poles – 22, The Ukrainians – 15.
SOBKIW Anna d/o Stefan
SOBKIW Włodzimierz s/o Franek
SOBKIW Stefan s/o Franek
SOBKIW Jan s/o Michał
SOBKIW Katarzyna d/o Józef
SOBKIW Włodzimierz s/o Michał
IWAT' Anna
IWAT' Ewa
BASZCZIJ Katarzyna d/o Michał
BASZCZIJ Maria d/o Michał
BASZCHIJ Anastasia d/o Teodor
BASZCZIJ Michalina d/o Simon
BASZCZIJ Anna d/o Stach
RACZKOWSKA Teodora
JANOCHA Jan s/o Stefan
JANOCHA Katarzyna
JANOCHA Ksenia
JAROSZ Paweł s/o Jan
JAROSZ Paulina d/o Onuphrius
KROCZEK Józef
BIŁYK Joanna d/o Bazyli
SKIBA Michał s/o Antoni
SKIBA Anna d/o Stach
SKIBA Maria d/o Michał
SKIBA Włodzimierz s/o Michał
BARSZCZYCHOWSKI Antoni s/o Józef
ŁOPIAK Katarzyna d/o Bazyli
ŁOPIAK Anna d/o Michał
ŁOPIAK Stach s/o Michał
KRAWIECKA Franka d/o Franciszek
KRAWIECKA Kazimiera d/o Franciszek
KRAWIECKI Adolf s/o Franciszek
HANUSZEWSKA Milina
DANILEWICZ Jaroslaw s/o Piotr
SOBKIW Katarzyna
KRAMARCZUK Elżbieta  […]
Head of Koropiecki RO MGB Kapitan KURIENNOJ
March 9, 1951.

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

source: „Note of the head of the RO MGB in Koropiec of March 9, 1951 regarding the acts of terror by the UPA in 1945”; in: State Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine, in: F. 26, op. 2, case 2, sh. 11—12

The Ukrainians murdered 7 Poles.

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