On the orders of a local Orthodox priest, the Ukrainians murdered 2 Polish families: Aleksander Fiendlisz, 6, and Józef Kopij, 5; 11 Poles in total.

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

Witness Borys Podik (born in 1933 in the village of Zaleszany): „Poles [who lived here] – I know them either by their first or last name. On the way to the neighboring village of Krywycji, next to Zaleszanów, Kudła lived on the left, on the right – Dykowski, closest to Zaleszanów – Edzio, in Zaleszany there was a house on the corner – Nowak lived there, and Jaśko lived. a doctor lived in Zaleszany, towards the forest, and the following lived: Szafran, Różycki, Sztuka, Libera. Kopel and Pecak lived next to Zaleszanów. Wieczorek and Gałka lived further from Zaleszanów towards Dąbrowica. Here, on the right, lived Bugajewski, Kurlikowski, and Julek, and Krupaniewicz. In 1943 he was a [Polish] doctor, he was friends with my father. He was the manager of the forest warehouse. When the German went to Poland, panic started in Ukraine. Back then, Poles, such young boys, were at the doctor's house, gathering for the night. [During the war] the Bandera followers started killing Poles. [Once] seven people gathered and stayed at the doctor's in the shed. and there were two such activists in Zaleszany then. [When] the Germans occupied Ukraine, they disappeared from the village, and then these Poles were tracked out that they were staying overnight there, and the door to the shed was blocked and burned. These seven young people – they all burned. I knew their generation of fathers, they were young people. I remember those who set it on fire. They were Banderites, the first organizers in Western Ukraine. One was killed by the Russian partisans near the village, and the other was killed by the NKVD. The Banderites were called hatchets – they wore axes behind their belts. There were 30 hatchets in the village of Zaleszany. In 1943, Jaśko, Ignaś and antoś lived here. Nowak died before the war, but his family was alive – his wife and three daughters. They fled to Dąbrowica. and this Jasiek. he was actually of Latvian nationality, but he was an emigrant from Poland, he was considered a Pole. He had a Russian son–in–law, he had a cottage near the church. When the axes came to the village, the son–in–law fled behind the church and fled to Dąbrowica. and Jasko was sitting with the peasants, they gathered in front of the hut, and in the hut there was a family – a wife, one married daughter and one maiden. This married woman had a child. The axmen came to the hut, hacked the whole family with axes, and the child was also in the cradle. They took him [Jasiek] from those peasants, and they also killed him. They said not to hide in the cemetery, but outside the cemetery. I wasn't here then, but people told me that there were two sisters – one was called Jadzia, and the other (I don't remember) had been in the village for three years with her husband. She was Polish, but she got married to a Ukrainian and they had a son, a little boy. How [the axes] came, they took my sister from the village next door, they gathered the others together. They had a little boy, he hid under the stove so that they did not notice him. and they took the sisters outside the village, and they worked there. and this boy (with the other Pole) fled to Dąbrowica; and this is how they got to Poland. He came to Trybutenska, who had a Ukrainian husband, at night, and there was water flowing nearby. [Trybuteński] washed his wife and blood. He washed them and buried them under the birch. In 1968 this son, this little boy who escaped to Poland, grew up and came here with that «uncle» Trybuteński and he brought him to show where his mother was buried. He was so young, not tall. Once we drove from the forest to mow hay and stopped there. and this «uncle» showed: «Here under the birch I buried her»”. .

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: „Coverage of the promotion”; in: Zińczuk Aleksandra (idea, selection, edit), „Reconciliation through difficult memory. Volhynia 1943”, „Panorama of Cultures” Association, in: Lublin 2012

These murders probably took place in the summer of 1943. Siemaszko, on p. 755 report that in the village of Zaleszany (Zaliszanie) in 1943, at the behest of a local Orthodox clergyman, the Ukrainians murdered two Polish families: the 5–person family of Józef Kopij and the 6–person family of Aleksander Fiendlin.

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