The village is located about 30 km north of Hoszcza. On 12.04.1943 a German expedition came to the village in cars to punish the inhabitants who were evading forced labour. The Germans cordoned off the village tightly and herded the population into the local school. Whole families whose members did not volunteer to go to Germany were then shot. Approximately 380 inhabitants were then murdered, including women and children. Among the victims were about 130 Poles.

In 1990, a monumental memorial with an inscription in Ukrainian was unveiled at the site of the mass grave. In 2003, on the initiative of the Ukrainian regional authorities, this memorial was renovated and supplemented with new elements. The ceremonial unveiling of the renovated monument took place on 6.11.2003.

The monument was erected in the form of three soaring concrete columns in the shape of bayonets, connected to each other by a concrete ring. In front of the monument is a slab of black granite with an inscription in Ukrainian. In 2003 a black granite plaque was added to the ring joining the columns of the monument, topped with a stone cross with an engraved new Ukrainian inscription; the steps leading up to the monument were also built, the mound on which it is situated was secured in front by a granite wall. The approach was paved with cobblestones. The name plates have been replaced and the whole has been framed by a low wall of black granite, which delineates the boundaries of the two symbolic graves. The inscription reads: "In this place, on 12 April 1943, the German-Fascist invaders shot 380 children, women and men - Ukrainians and Poles - civilian inhabitants of the village of Jarynówka".