„The elder son, one of seven children of Michał Borowik (older brother of Władysław Borowik), a teacher in Wolica Brzozowa, an Orthodox deacon in Grodysławice, and Hannah Jońko. Extremely religious, he intended to follow in his father's footsteps by studying theology at the seminary in Chełm. He served as a psalmist in the church in Grodysławice. After the family was displaced by the Germans in 1943, he lived with his family in Bukowina, Biszcza, Tarnogród and Pieniany.
He experienced the first attack with his family at the presbytery in Tarnogród in 1944, just after Chreshchenya (the Day of the Baptism of the Lord). A mother with two children, a daughter and a younger son, Aleksander, managed to escape and hide in an empty well. Mikołaj also managed to escape, although earlier the bandits stripped him naked.
After the robbery, the family split up. Mikołaj with his older sister and brother–in–law went to the village of Pieniany, the parents with their younger son to Wólka Pukarzewska.
On Good Friday (according to the calendar of the Orthodox liturgy) in 1944, bandits chopped off Mikołaj's head, put it on a stick and carried it around the village. The next day, on Holy Saturday, a tragic fate also befell Father Mikołaj, who was cruelly murdered together with a group of 16 Orthodox inhabitants of Wólka Pukarzewska.
According to most accounts, the attackers in both cases were Poles, according to some, a BCh sub–unit. According to one account, the murderers were Banderites.
In April 2008, the Synod of the Orthodox Church included Mikołaj Borowik in the Council of St. Martyrs of Chełm and Podlasie”

source: „Borowik, Nicholas”; in: portal: Polish Genealogy — web page: genealogia.okiem.pl [accessible: 2023.07.15]

„After the deportation of Grodysławice by the Germans in the summer of 1943, the Borowik family lived successively in Bukowina, Biszcza and Tarnogród. In 1944, Mikołaj and his four older siblings settled in Pieniany, while his parents and their youngest son Aleksander settled in Wólka Pukarzowska. On Good Friday, April 14, 1944, Mikołaj was murdered, along with a group of other residents, during a bandit attack on Pieniany. His severed head was carried around the village on a stick. Two days later, on Easter, along with 16 other people, Mikołaj's father, deacon Michał, was murdered”

source: „Nicholas Borowik”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2023.07.15]