[1] The first attack on the self-defence centre in Huta Stara was launched by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army at the beginning of June 1943.

On 7 July 1943, the centre lost Lt. Osiecki, who was kidnapped and murdered by Soviet partisans from the grouping of NKVD Colonel Dmitry Medvedev.

On 15 August 1943, a 200-strong partisan detachment of the Home Army (AK), led by Lieutenant Władysław Kochański "Bomba", arrived in Huta Stara and joined the self-defence, staying there until December 1943.

On 16 November 1943, taking advantage of the absence in the village of the "Bomba" detachment, which had set out on an action against the Germans, UPA units of about 1,200 men attacked the self-defence centre from the east.

[3] The second "pacification" operation took place on 28 February 1945 and this time, the Ukrainians killed all the Poles they encountered, including infants and seniors.