[The Ukrainians] murdered 31‑year‑old Michał Plaifer and 15‑year‑old Jan Koźlak. „It was Saturday, my father went in a cart with two boys, Jan Koźlak, 15, and Franciszek Hertman, 15, in a sleigh to the forest to get a tree. In the forest they were caught by the Bandera followers, they ordered my father to lie down on a sleigh, they covered him with a military Celtic, they had on him and, hitting him with their butts, went deep into the forest. after stopping there, they began to torture him — they cut both his calves off, and when he screamed, they cut off his tongue, then gouged out his eye, cut the skin around his head and took it off his skull. after this torture, they hung him on a tree. Jan Koźlak died in a similar way with his father  […] For a long time no one had the courage to take off the hanging body. after the father was removed, knife marks were also found on the neck  […] His mother buried him, and shortly after (about two months) she was murdered herself. I remember when the Banderites took my mother away, I was very scared when I was separated from her. They took me to one house and my mother to another. I heard her screams, I myself screamed in fear, I wanted to run away. Other children were locked up with me. after about two weeks, I managed to escape by jumping out of the window and running into the woods. When I was wandering aimlessly, young Ukrainian boys caught me and started kicking me, choking me, hitting me. One of them got on my head. Luckily, a woman came and yelled at them and told them to leave. She walked me a bit away and told me: «now go». I wandered aimlessly in the forest until I joined the guerrillas (Volunteer Brigade of the Podolia Guard in Szwejków)  […] I was less than 6 years old, I miraculously survived, I was an orphan”.

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

source: Plajfer Tadeusz, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 760—761

In December 1943, they murdered 31‑year‑old Michał Plaifer and 15‑year‑old Jan Koźlak, and in February 1944 the wife of Michał Plajfer. „It was Saturday, my father went in a cart with two boys, Jan Koźlak, 15, and Franciszek Hertman, 15, in a sleigh to the forest to get a tree. In the forest they were caught by the Bandera followers, they ordered my father to lie down on a sleigh, they covered him with a military Celtic, they had on him and, hitting him with their butts, went deep into the forest. after stopping there, they began to torture him – they cut both his calves off, and when he screamed, they cut off his tongue, then gouged out his eye, cut the skin around his head and took it off his skull. after this torture, they hung him on a tree. Jan Koźlak died in a similar way with his father  […] For a long time no one had the courage to take off the hanging body. after the father was removed, knife marks were also found on the neck  […] His mother buried him, and soon (about two months) she was murdered herself. I remember when the Banderites took my mother away, I was very scared when I was separated from her. They took me to one house and my mother to another. I heard her screams, I myself screamed in fear, I wanted to run away. Other children were locked up with me. after about two weeks, I managed to escape by jumping out of the window and running into the woods. When I was wandering aimlessly, young Ukrainian boys caught me and started kicking me, choking me, hitting me. One of them got on my head. Luckily, a woman came and yelled at them and told them to leave. She walked me a bit away and told me: «now go». I wandered aimlessly in the forest until I joined the guerrilla (Volunteer Brigade of the Podolia Guard in Szwejków)  […] I was less than 6 years old, I miraculously survived, I was an orphan”.

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

source: Plajfer Tadeusz, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 760—761