The Lidawka colony was inhabited by Poles and Ukrainians. At the beginning of 1943, Soviet partisans were stationed here. In retaliation for this, the Germans together with the Ukrainian police pacified the village on 3.03.1943. In Lidawka 104 people were killed and 29 farms were liquidated. Some of the victims were buried in a mass grave in Lidawka and some in the village of Paszuki.

In the 1970s, the local authorities erected a monument in Lidawka to commemorate the murdered Poles. It was a tall reinforced concrete monolith with a bas-relief of a mother cuddling a child and an inscription in Ukrainian. The inscription on the monument did not mention the nationality of the victims. By the end of the 1990s, this obelisk was already badly damaged and the inscription on it was partially illegible.

Therefore, the Council for the Protection of Remembrance of Struggle and Martyrdom made efforts to commemorate the Poles murdered in Lidawka. The commemoration, in the form of a cross, was unveiled in October/November 2004. Among the names of the victims engraved on the memorial are also the names of Poles murdered by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army a few months later - the Bier family and the Czerkawski family. Already after the unveiling of the memorial, the OPWiM Council gained access to the diary of a former resident of Lidawka. This document made it possible to complete the list of victims. More people were thus identified and the personalities of those already commemorated were supplemented in the documentation.

The present monument is a granite cross with a Polish eagle and inscriptions in Polish and Ukrainian, surrounded by a stone wall. The inscription reads: "To the memory / of / resting here / about 130 Poles / inhabitants of the village / Lidawka / cruelly murdered / by fascists / on 3 March 1943 / The burnt village ceased to exist. The / former villagers / families and the Government / of the Republic of Poland / 2003 // [a list of names follows] // May they rest in peace".