The UPA murdered at least 40 Poles. „The tragic Monday cannot be forgotten until today by Stanisław Grzywna, who was 14 years old during the attack. Before she ran away, she heard excruciating screams coming from a farm situated nearly 150 meters away, already belonging to a neighboring village called Zamostecze, into which the Banderites had entered. A family with ten young children lived there. – These terrifying screams could not be anything else but murdering these children – Stanisława thinks, still unable to remove the nightmare of” from memory.

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: „Murders lasting in your night sleep – Jankowce village demise”; in: portal: Dziennik złożony — web page: dziennik-zlozony.pl [accessible: 2022.02.28]

„On August 29 and 30, I, together with a unit of 700 armed men, in accordance with the order of the commander of the Military District «Oleh», completely slaughtered the entire Polish population in the areas of Holobsk, Kovel, Siedlce, Mackiew and Lubomel, I plundered and plundered all property her immovable property. In total, in these areas, during August 29 and 30, 1943, I slaughtered and shot over 15,000 people. peaceful inhabitants, including old people, women and children. We did it as follows: after we had spent every one of the inhabitants in one place, we surrounded them and started the slaughter. Then, when there was not a single living person left, we dug deep pits, threw all the dead bodies into them, covered them with earth and, to hide the tracks, we made huge fires and kept walking. In this way, we moved from village to village, until we destroyed the entire population – over 15,000 people”.

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: Poliszczuk Wiktor, „The genesis of Ukrainian nationalism - a variety of European fascism”, Extract from the interrogation report of Yuri Stelmashchuk "Rudy", one of the UPA commanders in Volhynia, February 28, 1945; in: „In the Outlands”, in: No. 68 /2003

On Sunday, August 29, 1943, at night and in the early morning in the counties of Kowelski, Włodzimierski and Lubomelski, defenseless Polish people were murdered. The Polish population suffered the most from the fire and murder of Ukrainian bands in the Lubomelski district. According to the reports of refugees from the above–mentioned counties, the action was as follows: gangs armed with machine and hand guns circled individual towns and illuminated them with rockets, and the Ukrainian population from neighboring villages, armed with axes, forks, shovels, scythes and sickles, attacked individual houses, several or a dozen or so people and murdered the sleeping household members. After the murder and throwing the half–dead into a well, residential and farm buildings were set on fire. In this way, by committing the murder, only a small percentage of the population managed to survive and get to the Lublin region. As the murder took place at night and in the early morning hours, the individuals who managed to survive came without clothes and shoes. The first information about what was happening on the other side of the Bug was received by the Polish Welfare Committee in Chełm in the evening of August 29, 1943, but not supported by evidence. The next message came on August 30 from seven refugees who came to the Polish Welfare Committee and told in detail what happened on August 29. The next messages came along with the railroads of refugees. The Polish Welfare Committee in Chełm was received in the evening of August 29, 1943, but not supported by evidence. The next message came on August 30 from seven refugees who came to the Polish Welfare Committee and told in detail what happened on August 29. The next messages came along with the railroads of refugees. The Polish Welfare Committee in Chełm was received in the evening of August 29, 1943, but not supported by evidence. The next message came on August 30 from seven refugees who came to the Polish Welfare Committee and told in detail what happened on August 29. The next messages came along with the railroads of refugees.

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: „1943, September 8 - PolKO report in Chełm on refugees from Volhynia”; in: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: No. , p. 151—153