Ukrainian policemen escaped from the German service and shot eight bullets in front of the wife and children of a Pole, Kazimierz Mederski's teacher.

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

The UPA and local Ukrainian peasants murdered 51 Poles and, according to other witnesses, 17 Polish families.

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

Ms Anna Kozioł, a retired teacher from Dębica, recalls:
„I had a wonderful childhood and lived in a beautiful, quiet village. I was born there and lived until I was eighteen. My parents had a large farm and they cultivated the land  […]
In my village, Ukrainians, Poles and two Jewish families lived side by side. We went to school together and for many years we were good neighbors  […]
[Jews] traded in goods that could not be produced on the farm and had to be bought, such as sugar, salt, kerosene, agricultural tools and sweets. Even today I remember the name of one of them ‑Icek and his wife was Adelaide. It was not an Orthodox family, they wore clothes similar to us, but they were religious Jews  […]
There was an Orthodox church in our village where Ukrainians, most of whom lived in Żdżary, prayed. We used to go to church in Zabłoćce, where Poles from other nearby villages also came. We celebrated the holidays on different dates but we invited each other accordingly. We go to our Ukrainian neighbors and they visit us in our homes when Easter or Christmas were celebrated  […]
There was also religious education at school. Polish children were taught by a priest from Zabłoć from the church, and for Ukrainian children a lectures led a priest from the local church. You could attend their religion lessons if anyone wanted, and they could also attend our lessons  […]
Our closest neighbors were the Polish family of Paweł and Adela Pendowski. They had three daughters. Paweł's parents were deported to Siberia after the territory was occupied by the [Russian] Red Army. But Russians did not harass them and they lived peacefully here. Paweł Pendowski had siblings, including a sister Anna, whose son joined the [Ukrainian genocidal] UPA. After 1939, not much has changed for many of us. So far, we have lived according to the seasons, working on the land and leading a normal life”…
The end of peace came on July 11, 1943  […] In the Żdżary area, the murder of Poles began in the Polish village of Gurów. Armed with knives, axes, pitchforks and firearms, a gang of Ukrainians began mass killing Poles.
Many Poles were murdered in the church in Zabłoćce. Ukrainian bandits waited for people to come to the church for mass and surrounded the church, locked it up and set it on fire. Anna's family went to a later mass that day, and all they found were burning ashes and burnt victims. After returning to their village, they found a terrifying sight.
„They killed our Pendowski's neighbors in their own house, in the kitchen. The bandits impaled eldest daughter Romcia on a pitchfork and propped the room door with her. The s/o Paweł's sister Anna participated in their murder. He came to kill his uncle  […] He was a monstrous bandit. His name was Mitka. He murdered three children, their father and his pregnant wife.
After those murderers left, we went to the Pendowski family to see what happened. It was a terrible sight, Dad almost fainted at the sight”.
They did not return to their home anymore, but hid in the grain field for two days.
„One of kind Ukrainians warned our father to flee across the Bug river as soon as possible, because we were in danger of death. The river was guarded by members of the Ukrainian UPA, who were making sure that the Poles who survived the pogrom did not get to the German side. He also told dad that at night he would be guarding the river and show us a place where there is a shallow so that we could go to the other bank. And so it happened. At night, we secretly went to the river and there we managed to get to the other side. German guards showed us the way where we could safely go”.
Mrs. Anna and her family went first to Hrubieszów, then to Lviv and finally to Brzesko. After the war, she settled in Dębica, got married here and worked as a teacher for many years. She died at the age of 94 in the spring of 2019.

source: „Miraculous escape from the Volhynia massacre”, Maria Kozioł from Dębica recollections; in: portal: Dębica Region - Dębica Information Portal — web page: ziemiadebicka.pl [accessible: 2020.07.09]

The UPA and local Ukrainian peasants murdered the Poles living here, 10 families, the number of victims has not been established; the teacher's brother, left paralyzed, died after two weeks of starvation. Report by Julian Małkowicz: „I was born in the village of Żdżary, Grzybowica commune, Włodzimierz Wołyński district. Our neighbors were Ukrainians, about whom my father Franciszek spoke positively, e.g. when our barn burned down and two stacks of grain burned down after the harvest, the Ukrainian neighbors drove two carts around the village and collected for us a lot of products needed to live, such as grain and potatoes  […] I learned from my brother Marian Małkowicz – my cousin from Kolonia Żdżara and who lived there until 1943 that only 4 people from the village of Żdżary survived, among whom the girl's name was Skrzypacz Eugenia, residing there. after the war in the US, NY at «Posaik». The girl survived the murder of her family. She didn't want to talk to my brother or talk to anyone about it  […] As far as I know, the village of Żdżary was murdered by the local «Motyka» – that was the name of the main criminal who murdered the inhabitants of the Żdżary village. This man lives so far is over eighty years. The Poles were buried in a mass grave near the forest. I was at the Polish–Ukrainian reconciliation in Poryck, Ukraine, with my great–uncle Marian Małkowicz. During the stay, after asking about Żdżary, one of the men pointed us to a woman who came from Żdżary and worked in a shop. We asked her about the names of former residents, and after mentioning the name of «Motyka» – the main ringleader, the woman said it was her grandfather. At that, I dragged my brother away so we wouldn't talk to her anymore. Our intention was to visit the village and fund a monument to the murdered Poles. The ringleaders of the attack were Hryciak Wasyl, Szyna and Sołowiej Jarosław. After the murder of the village of Żdżary, they went to Lviv and Tarnopol. Next to the Proska shop there was a WW1 pit and Poles were buried there”.

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

source: „Żdżary Duże village, colony and farm”; in: portal: Volhynia pages — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]

The UPA and local Ukrainian peasants murdered all Poles from Polish–Ukrainian families. Men, women and children were murdered on the spot, girls were raped in the woods. About 58 Poles were murdered. In total, in Zabłoćce and Żdżary Duży, about 116 Poles from Polish–Ukrainian families fell victim to this Nazi purge carried out by „of the” Ukrainian insurgents. At the beginning of September, the UPA kept walking around Polish houses, assuring Poles that nothing would happen to anyone and that they would not run away. They threatened with hunger that awaited them when they left for the General Government.

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