Prob. identical with the priest about whom there is preserved information that in 1918 was murdered by Russian Bolsheviks in Krasyliv, c. 25 km north of Proskuriv. Was then in the process of changing parishes and perhaps went to his family in the vicinity of Horodok‐Podilskyi, which was still under Russian control, c. 40 km southeast of Proskuriv — taking advantage of the separatist peace treaty signed on 03.03.1918 in Brest‐on‐the‐Bug between the Central Powers participating in World War I (i.e. the German Empire and the Austro–Hungarian Monarchy, both ruling parts of the partitioned Poland), and Bolshevik Russia, which enabled the return of Poles from Russia to Polish territories, but also migration in the opposite direction — and was captured by the Bolsheviks along the way. The rumors of his death turned out to be untrue, and after the end of World War I on 11.11.1918, found himself in the then reborn independent Republic of Poland.

In 1939, ministered in the parish of Korytnytsya, in the Volodymyr‐Volynskyi district of the Polish Volyn Voivodeship. The town of Korytnytsya, where the parish church was located — situated on the right bank of the Bug River — was inhabited by c. 600 people, of whom an estimated only c. 9% were Roman Catholic Poles, c. 11% Orthodox Ukrainians, and c. 80%, i.e. 500 people, Jews. His parish had c. 875 faithful. However, the religious structure — and therefore the nationality — of the rural areas of the Volodymyr–Volynskyi district was completely different: c. 26% were Roman Catholic Poles, c. 66% Orthodox Ukrainians, and c. 3% Jews.

When in 09.1939 the Germans and Russians attacked Poland and World War II began, in the vicinity of his parish the Bug became a border river. Korytnytsya — pursuant to the genocidal Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 23.08.1939, i.e. the Fourth Partition of Poland, confirmed on 28.09.1939, by the „Treaty on the Borders and Friendship between Germany and Russia”, also known as the second Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, found itself under Russian occupation. Already in the autumn of 1939, arrests of intelligentsia, teachers, doctors, landowners, government officials, foresters, policemen, and families of Polish servicemen began in the Russian‐occupied area. In the years 1940‐1941, many other Poles became victims of four large waves of deportations „to Siberia”. Accounts often mention that „they came at night, without warning, and took away entire families, from infants to the elderly”. „When we went out into the yard, they allowed my mother to look into the chest — unfortunately, it was empty, because our neighbors had already emptied it. We took practically nothing with us, because they did not allow us to move around the house […] There were large snowdrifts and heavy frost”. In addition, 150,000–200,000 men were conscripted into the Russian army, and c. 100,000 were forced to work for Russian industry, mainly in the mines of the Donets Basin, in heavy industry plants in the Urals and in Siberia. Then the surveillance of priests and monks began. High taxes were imposed on the clergy. The fate of the Poles around Volodymyr‐Volynskyi reflected this Polish fate.

At the same time, the Russians — along the entire length of the border between the two occupied parts of Poland — were constructing the so‐called Molotov Line, i.e., a series of defensive forts and trenches intended to protect the Russian invader from attack from the west. In the vicinity of Korytnytsya, two of the component fragments of the line met, i.e. 9th Kovel Fortified Area and 2nd Volodymyr‐Volynskyi Fortified Area. Part of the defense concept was a strip c. 800 m wide, from which the population was to be resettled along its entire length. Korytnytsya was located in such a strip, but it is not known whether any resettlements took place. Jewish sources state that in the case of the town of Ustyluh, located c. 13 km to the south and inhabited as Korytnytsya mostly by Jews, the Russians „deported about one third of the Jews […] to the nearest town, Volodymyr‐Volynskyi”.

After the German attack on 22.06.1941, on its erstwhile ally, the Russians, and the beginning of the German occupation, the parish found itself in the Germ. Kreisgebiet Wladimir Wolynsk (Eng. Volodymyr‐Volynskyi County) within the Germ. Generalbezirk Wolhynien–Podolien (Eng. General District Volyn‐Podolya), as part of the occupying body called the Germ. Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Eng. Reich Commissariat of Ukraine). Witnesses recalled that „Ukrainian nationalists were most pleased with the new situation. In marches and demonstrations, manifested the creation of a free Ukraine and proclaimed anti‐Polish and anti‐Jewish slogans”. The Germans quickly dissuaded Ukrainian nationalists from their hopes for a „free Ukraine”. But they exploited these revealed anti‐Polish and anti‐Jewish sentiments. For the years 1941‐1943 were marked in particular by the extermination of Jews and the participation of collaborative Ukrainian units in it. Jewish sources do not contain information about the fate of the Jews from Korytnytsya. In the Germ. Kreisgebiet Wladimir Wolynsk, only two ghettos are described: in Volodymyr‐Volynskyi and Ustyluh. However, it is unclear whether and when the Jews from Korytnytsya were to be transported to these ghettos. The order by the Germ. Reichskommissar (Eng. Reich Commissioner) in the Germ. Reichskommissariat Ukraine, the Germ. Gaulaiter (Eng. District Head) of the ruling National Socialist German Workers' Party NSDAP, Erich Koch of 05.09.1941 stipulated the creation of Germ. „streng abgeschlossen” (Eng. „strictly isolated”) ghettos in cities and towns with a significant number of Jews, in which Germ. „Arier” (Eng. „Aryans”), i.e. representatives of the „master race”, were not allowed to stay. A „significant number” was defined as towns inhabited by more than 200 Jews. The Jewish Germ. Judenrat (Eng. Jewish Council) was to be responsible for „order” in the ghetto, assisted by the Germ. Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (Eng. Jewish Order Service). Strict observance of the isolation order was usually enforced by members of the collaborative Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei (Eng. Ukrainian Auxiliary Police), in some regions also referred to as the Germ. Schutzmannschaft (Eng. Security Battalions), i.e. Schuma. These ghettos were liquidated by the Germans, with the participation of the Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei, between 05‐11.1942 — as part of the genocidal plan Germ. «Endlösung der Judenfrage» (Eng. Final Solution of the Jewish Question), implemented from the beginning of 1942. The method was the systematic mass murder of selected groups of Jews in selected places: in death pits in the nearby forests, in cemeteries (mainly Jewish), and even in the town squares. This was the case in Ustyluh and Volodymyr‐Volynskyi. In the case of Korytnytsya, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance IPN reports that „in 1942, Ukrainian policemen gathered c. 300 Jews — residents of the town — in the square in front of the Catholic church in Korytnytsya and then shot them. One of the executioners was Alexy Kalińczuk”.

Perhaps it was then that left the already empty town of Korytnytsya and moved to the village of Stenzharychi, c. 7 km away. In 1939, Stenzharychi had a population of c. 1,900 people, of whom Roman Catholic Poles constituted c. 42% and Orthodox Ukrainians c. 55%. Nearby there was also the Stenzharychi colony with a significant — as it seems — Polish majority, i.e. the Polish colonists, largely veterans of the Polish–Russian War of 1919‐1921. The local Roman Catholic parish was ministered by Fr Francis Basil Stysło, ordained as a Greek Catholic priest, but after being imprisoned by the Russians in 1917 in Orenburg on the Ural River, became a priest of the Roman Catholic diocese of Lutsk‐Zhytomyr. He was a widower — his wife died during his imprisonment. After 1920, he remained in Russia and was arrested by the Russians — this time Bolsheviks — again and sentenced to death for „espionage” for Poland. The sentence was commuted to 10 years of forced slave labor and he was sent to the Rus. Исправи́тельно‐Трудово́й Ла́герь (Eng. Correctional Labor Camp) ITL SLON, also known colloquially as „Solovki” — concentration and forced slave labor camp (as part of the complex later called the Gulag) — based on the Solovetsky Islands in the Arkhangelsk Oblast. On 15.09.1932, he was released and transported to Poland as part of a prisoner exchange between Poland and Russia.

May have left Korytnytsya earlier, as Fr Stysło — it seems — moved to the other bank of the Bug River (to Horodło) as early as 1939, thus avoiding the Russian occupation. Likely knew Fr Stysło well — they ministered in neighboring parishes, had similar experiences with the Russians, etc. May also have known Fr Stysło's sons — Volodymir and Claudius, who became soldiers in the Directorate of Sabotage, i.e. „Kedyw”, of the Main Command of the Home Army AK (part of the Polish Clandestine State). On 19‐20.05.1943, both took part in the action of freeing prisoners transported by the Germans by train to the Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL Auschwitz, near Celestynów, under the combat command of one of the most famous Polish scouts / resistance fighters, Thaddeus Zawadzki, nom de guerre „Zośka”. The action was successful — 49 prisoners were released — but Volodymir, nom de guerre „John II”, was killed. Claudius, nom de guerre „White”, on the other hand, being the commander of the 1st platoon of the Warsaw Company of the 27th Volyn Infantry Division of the AK, was killed on 09.06.1944, during the Company's successful crossing of the Bug River. The source states: „The water was up to their necks. Stysło came ashore first, kissed the ground, and at that moment a bullet hit him straight in the head […] The crossing was guarded by the Germans, […] before they withdrew, they fired single shot”.

When the Stysło brothers were preparing for the action near Celestynów, Roman Shukhevych, nom de guerre „Taras Chuprynka”, the chief commander of the Ukrainian, genocidal OUN/UPA organisation, who in 1941 was a member of the Ukrainian Germ. Sondergruppe Nachtigall (Eng. Special Group Nightingale) — a unit of the Germ. Wehrmacht (Eng. Armed Forces) that took part in the German attack on Russians in 1941, accused of participating in the Jewish pogrom in Lviv in 1941 — and later a member of the Germ. Schutzmannschaftsbataillon 201 (Eng. 201st Protection team Battalion) — responsible for the murder of Jews and civilians in the territory of Belarus — issued in 02.1943 an order: „The extermination operation should be carried out according to the following principles: Polish villages are to be burned, and their populations massacred. Attacks on towns will take place in broad daylight, not at night. In mixed villages, the Polish population alone should be liquidated, and farmsteads should be burned only if they are 15 meters away and when there is no risk of the fire spreading to neighboring Ukrainian buildings. The Ukrainian population will receive instructions as to where to gather during the attack […] For every Ukrainian murdered, whether by Poles or Germans, 100 (one hundred) Poles will be executed”.

It was the de facto signal for the commencement of the «Genocidium Atrox» — i.e. the genocide perpetrated by Ukrainians, known as „Volyn genocide”.

Immediately thereafter, in 03.1943, the UPA issued an appeal to members of the Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei to desert and join the UPA ranks. Perhaps as many as 10,000 Ukrainians did so.

The tactics of the genocidal Ukrainians were detailed in an order from 06.1943, issued by the UPA commander in Volyn. Anticipating Germany's defeat in the war with Russia, explained and ordered: „We should carry out a major operation to eliminate the Polish element. When the German troops withdraw, we should use this opportune moment to eliminate the entire male population aged 16 to 60 […] We cannot lose this fight, and we must weaken Polish forces at all costs. Forest villages and villages located near forest massifs should disappear from the face of the earth”.

The apogee of the genocide was the so‐called „Bloody Sunday in Volyn”. The day before, on 10.07.1943, the representative of the Polish Clandestine State, plenipotentiary of the Government of the Republic of Poland, Casimir Banach, delegated the commander of the 8th district of the Peasant Battalions BCh „Volyn”, an outstanding poet, author of the poem „Two Mothers” about two homelands — Poland and Ukraine — Sigismund John Rumel, nom de guerre „Christopher Poręba”, and the representative of the Volyn District of the AK, Christopher Markiewicz, nom de guerre „Devil”, for talks with the OUN/UPA about stopping the «Genocidium Atrox» and agreeing on a common strategy for fighting the Germans. Both — along with their driver, Vitold Dobrowolski — were cruelly murdered by Ukrainian genocidal groups in the village of Kustychi, c. 30 km to the north east of Stenzharychi ‐according to some accounts, torn apart by horses. And the next day, 11.07.1943, on that „Bloody Sunday”, Ukrainian genocidal bands attacked 99 Polish–inhabited towns.

Volyn was drenched in Polish blood. Tens of thousands of Poles were murdered by the Ukrainians — with German passivity — in an extremely barbaric manner. Hundreds of villages were burned.

The next day, 12.07.1943, was kidnapped from Stężaryce by a militia of the genocidal Ukrainian OUN/UPA organization, [led by] a genocidal individual known as „Bloody Potap”.

Was taken to the forest surrounding the village — prob. the forest between the village and the Stężaryce colony — and murdered there.

Was allegedly immobilized in a wooden trough — according to other sources, tied between two boards — and then sawn in half to death.

Along with him, the Ukrainians allegedly brutally murdered 7‐8 Poles, including a teacher — some of whom were bound with barbed wire and brutally tortured before death. In total, some sources indicate that the Ukrainians murdered c. 80 Polish villagers.

To this day, Ukraine has not conducted any exhumations of the murdered Poles, so the verification of the victims is impossible.

His burial site remains unknown — his body till today rests in unconsecrated ground.

For this, on 12.10.2007, the génocidaire Roman Shukhevych was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. In 12.2020, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, in a resolution, recognized génocidaire Dmitry Klachkivsky as „the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Volyn and a participant in the struggle for Ukraine's independence in the 20th century”. In several locations, monuments and commemorative plaques have been erected to these Lat. „hostis humani generis”, the schools were named after them.

Lat. „O Tempora! O mores!”