In January 1943, a large group of Soviet partisans stayed in the Borszczówka colony (and in neighbouring Lidawka), terrorising the inhabitants. On 3.03.1943, as a result of a denunciation by Ukrainians, the Germans and Ukrainian policemen pacified the colony on the charge that the inhabitants were collaborating with Soviet partisans. Eight wounded survived the execution, who managed to escape, as well as several people who pretended to be killed. A few farms that were remote and separated by a forest survived and their inhabitants escaped. The murdered were ordered to be buried by the roadside and without a cross. The day after the pacification, 152 people were buried in a common grave. Despite the ban, the inhabitants soon placed a cross on the grave. Several victims of the pacification were buried in the cemetery. Corpses were also found in various places some time after the burial. Different figures are given for the number of victims: from 160 to 270 people. On the initiative of the local authorities, a monument with an inscription in Russian was unveiled on the mass grave on 30.04.1977 in honour of the pacification victims. The inscription stated: "On 8 March 1943 the German-Fascist occupiers burnt down the village of Borshchovka where more than 270 of its inhabitants buried in this grave died". A bas-relief of Mary with the Child was placed in the upper part of the monument. The new monument, made by the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Remembrance, was unveiled on 6.11.2003. It is a granite cross with a Polish eagle and inscriptions in Polish and Ukrainian, surrounded by a stone wall. The inscription reads: "With the smoke of fires / with the dust of brotherly blood / to you, Lord / cries this voice! / Kornel Ujejski // To the memory / of the approximately 250 Poles / of the inhabitants of the village of BORSZCZÓWKA / cruelly murdered / on 3 March 1943 / by the fascists / The burnt village ceased to exist / May they rest in peace. / Former villagers / Families and the Government / of the Republic of Poland / 2003". Inside the fence of the grave are granite plaques with more than 180 established names of the murdered Poles. Polish survivors of the pogrom were present at the ceremony, including Julian Konta (father of Jolanta Kwasniewska, wife of the then President of the Republic of Poland), as well as Jolanta Kwasniewska.