From 1934 resided on an inherited farm in the Feliksów colony, located in the Poznanka village, established by the order of the County Starosta of Lutsk, located c. 20 km north, in the Polish Volyn Voivodeship, dated 16.07.1929, which states: „The newly established Poznanka village community was established from 45 purchased plots of the former Jeziorany Ławrowskie manor, property of the late Helene Lubomirska, covers 500 hectares of land and has 216 inhabitants”. In 1939, assuming the population growth consistent with the growth in the entire county, in the village of Poznanka — located between the road leading from Lutsk to Brody in the Lviv Voivodeship in the east and the Lutsk–Lviv railway line in the west — there could have been c. 300 people, of whom Roman Catholic Poles constituted an estimated 94%, and Orthodox Ukrainians c. 6%. There were no Jews. Nearby there were several similar villages/colonies, with a Polish majority, e.g. Jeziorany Szlacheckie — in 1939 c. 500 inhabitants, c. 84% Poles; Jeziorany Polskie — 400 inhabitants, 90% Poles; Lavriv– grange — c. 450 inhabitants, 80% Poles; but also a few with a Ukrainian majority, e.g. Jeziorany Czeskie — c. 500 inhabitants, including c. 8% Poles and 91% Ukrainians; and the largest of them, Lavriv, where in 1939 an estimated 3,500 people lived, including c. 13% Poles, c. 86% Orthodox Ukrainians, and a dozen or so Jews.

After the German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and the start of World War II, pursuant to the genocidal German–Russian agreement of 23.08.1939, known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, confirmed on 28.09.1939 by the so‐called „Treaty on the Borders and Friendship between Germany and Russia”, also known as the second Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, his parish found itself in territory granted by the allies to Russia. The Russian occupation began. The Russians subjected Poles in particular to repression, arresting Polish intelligentsia, teachers, doctors, landowners, government officials, foresters, policemen, and families of Polish servicemen. Many other Poles became victims of four large waves of deportations „to Siberia”. The first one, in 02.1940, was particularly dramatic. 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 anything. There were heavy snowdrifts and heavy frosts”. 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, and religious education was removed from schools.

After the German attack on 22.06.1941, on their erstwhile ally, the Russians, the Russian genocidal leader Lavrentiy Beria, head of the genocidal NKVD, on 24.06.1941, ordered the shooting of all political prisoners held in the „western regions of the USSR”, i.e. in the Polish lands occupied by the Russians, „whose evacuation into the interior of the country was impossible”. In the Lutsk county, local NKVD officers, as if anticipating this order, murdered prisoners as early as 23.06.1941. With machine guns and grenades thrown from prison windows into the courtyard where prisoners were gathered, c. 2,000 people were murdered (some estimates say even 4,000 killed by Russians fleeing in panic). Among them were c. 70% Ukrainians and 25% Poles, and everyone was murdered, not only „political prisoners”. The Germans entered Lutsk on 25.06.1941, and a day later, Ukrainians carried out a pogrom against Jews in the city, considering them to be Russian collaborators — in many cases not without justification, as evidenced by a score of memories from that period, and, i.a. prob. the participation of two Jewish women in the massacre of prisoners in Lutsk. Several houses and a synagogue were burned down. Just a week later, the Germ. Sonderkommando 4a (Eng. Special Group 4a) unit appeared in the city — part of the genocidal Germ. Einsatzgruppe C (Eng. Operational Group C) of the Germ. Sicherheitspolizei (Eng. Security Police), i.e. Sipo, and the Germ. Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers SS (Eng. Security Service of the Reichsführer SS), i.e. «SD», within the Germ. Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Eng. Reich Main Security Office), i.e. RSHA — and on 02.07.1941, murdered 1,160 Jews in the city. A day later, at Lubart Castle, it murdered another 1,000‐3,000 Jewish victims with machine guns.

The Germans entered his village on c. 26.06.1941. Poznanka became part of the Germ. Kreisgebiet Luzk (Eng. Lutsk County) within the Germ. Generalbezirk Wolhynien–Podolien (Eng. Volyn‐Podolya General District), part of the German‐occupied and run quasi‐state called the Germ. Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Eng. Reich Commissariat Ukraine). Although there were practically no Jews in his village — and in the neighboring villages as well — the Germans" decision to systematically eliminate them, the methods, speed and scale of the crimes, significantly influenced the fate of the village and the surrounding area. The Germans did not stop at the first, described above murders in Lutsk. Already at the turn of 1941 and 1942, the implementation of the genocidal plan Germ. «Endlösung der Judenfrage» (Eng. Final Solution of the Jewish Question), i.e. the extermination of all Jews in the occupied territories. The nearest place of murders was the settlement of Sienkiewiczówka, established in 1926 by the railway station of the same name, c. 13 km southwest of Poznanka. In 1939, an estimated 1,000 people lived there, including c. 25% Jews — 60 families, according to the Jewish „Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos”. The Germans entrusted the administration of the village to Ukrainians and established there a unit of the collaborative formation Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei (Eng. Ukrainian Auxiliary Police), depending on the actual subordination to the German authorities also referred to as the Germ. Schutzmannschaft (Eng. Protection Battalions), i.e. Schuma. From among the Jews, a Germ. Judenrat (Eng. Jewish Council) was established, which was made responsible for the implementation of German orders by the Jewish community. In 02.1942, a ghetto was established there — surrounded by a barbed wire fence and patrolled by the Germ. Ukrainian Hilfspolizei — into which Jews were herded from nearby villages and colonies, and in which c. 500 people were held. On 05.10.1942, a German Sipo and «SD» unit, supported by the Germ. Ukrainian Hilfspolizei, surrounded the ghetto. The Jews were loaded onto trucks and transported to the intersection of the road and the railway line, not far from the railway station. There, at previously dug ditches, the Jews were ordered to undress and forced, in groups of four, to lie down in the ditch, after which they were shot.

Prob. a few Jews from the Poznanka area were murdered there. But it is also possible that they were murdered in a small forest on the Polonka River, near the village of Hirka Polonka, c. 3 km from the commune village of Polonka and c. 12 km north‐east of his Poznanka — both villages inhabited by c. 80‐90% Ukrainians — on the above‐mentioned Lutsk–Brody road, where the Germans murdered Jews from the ghetto in Lutsk. The Germ. Aktion (Eng. operation) to liquidate the ghetto in Lutsk took place on 19‐23.08.1942. The Germans and the Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei herded c. 14,000 people into the main square of the city, from where they were transported in trucks to Hirka Polonka. There, in a ditch c. 150 meters long and 6 meters wide, they were all murdered. In the following weeks, the Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei caught c. 4,000 more Jews in hiding, and they were also murdered in the vicinity of Polonka. It is estimated that in total the Germans and Ukrainians murdered c. 25,600 people in the vicinity of Polonka. The Germans could proudly report that the Germ. Kreisgebiet Luzk was Germ. „Judenrein” (Eng. „free of Jews”).

And right after that, in 02 1943, in Volyn, 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 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, „unemployed” after the murders of Jews, 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 issued by the UPA commander in Volyn — from 11.1943 commander of the Operational Group „UPA‐North” — Dmytro Klachkivsky, nom de guerre „Klym Savur”, in 06.1943. 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”.

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.

And then, at the beginning of 1943, decided to move to Lutsk, a city in which in 1937 there lived 40,715 people, including 41% Poles, 39% Jews and c. 17% Ukrainians. When moved there, there were no Jews there anymore, so the city was half deserted. Revealed the reason for the move in a statement, in which personally pointed to Ukrainians who had threatened him with death in Poznanka.

However, from time to time, visited his farm. This was also the case in 05‐07.1943, when the greatest wave of Ukrainian genocide was taking place.

In his Poznanka in 07.1943, „during the attack, UPA members from Lavriv, Charukiv and Korsiv tortured victims, killed them with axes, pitchforks and other tools, raped women. 95 Poles were killed, their property was robbed and their farmsteads were burned”.

In the neighboring Jeziorany Czeskie, on 25.07.1943, 14 Poles were murdered: „A group of about 10 UPA members armed with rifles, axes, knives, and a saw for cutting wood murdered 14 Poles, including two families who had escaped from Jeziorany Szlacheckie, even though they had previously paid the Ukrainians for their safety in gold and received promises that nothing would happen to anyone. They tortured all the people for 4‐5 hours, inflicting numerous injuries. They cut off the women's breasts and mutilated their faces, stabbing everyone with bayonets. They started with the youngest members of the family, working their way up to the oldest. During the murders, the "Ukrainian insurgents" told the victims Ukr. "ви були добрі чоловік — будемі вас помалу різати" (Eng. "You were a good man — we will kill you slowly")”. In Jeziorany Polskie in 05‐06.1943, c. 20 Poles were murdered. In Jeziorany Szlacheckie, on c. 19.06.1943, c. 50 Poles were killed: „When people realized what was happening, self‐defense outposts began to be established […] However, the Banderites attacked Jeziorany Szlacheckie. The self‐defense did not have time to organize. The Ukrainians murdered many people”. E.g. „They drove a nail into the forehead of 59‐year‐old Joseph Butkiewicz and left a note: Ukr. "Він мене хлібом корнів, а я його за то убив" (Eng. "He fed me bread, and I killed him for it"). This was done by a Ukrainian servant, whom the Pole treated like a son, among other things, he threw him a lavish wedding”. In Lavriv itself, in 07.1943, c. 20 Poles were killed, including 9 Poles murdered during one of the attacks, when the bodies were thrown into a well, including a family of 7 with 5 children aged from 5 months to 12 years: „The whole house was surrounded by Ukrainians.

Two men came in […], spoke Polish, asked who was Polish, started beating and ordered everyone to lie down on the kitchen floor. Wailing began. The Ukrainians had rifles with bayonets. They first pierced Grandma B. and Mrs. J. The children ran around the kitchen, trying to hide somewhere, there was squealing, screaming, crying, but no chance of escape. The Ukrainians bayoneted all the children, repeatedly. Then they stabbed them under the bed […] In the yard, by a tree stump, I saw the bodies of Mr. J. and Antek, whose heads had been beheaded by the bandits with axes. They were lying next to the tree stump”.

During the return from one of such visits to Poznanka, in 06‐07 1943, prob. before the murder described above, captured by a gang of Ukrainian nationalists from the genocidal OUN/UPA in the village of Polonka — the same where Germans and Ukrainians committed mass murders of Jews.

Reportedly saved himself for several months by helping Ukrainians as a herbalist.

Finally, apparently in Charukiv, a village almost 100% Ukrainian, after being beaten, was thrown alive into a well and buried with stones, along with two other people.

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” — e.g. in Lavriv there is a monument erected to the „heroes of the UPA” — the schools were named after them.

Lat. „O Tempora! O mores!”