During World War II, Russians, Poles, Ukrainians and Germans were forcibly settled in the village of Skaczok. Next to the hamlet, on the northern side, there was a cemetery where the dead of the settlement were buried. About 100 people were buried here. This cemetery has been preserved in a rudimentary state to the present day - there are no crosses or tombstones, but fragments of the fence and grave hills have been preserved. Archival records indicate that 26 Poles, buried between 1940 and 1941, are buried here. It has been established that Justyna Szpak, Józef Kuc and his sister Janina Kuc were among them.
In 1998, members of the 'Memorial' from the Rudnichnyy hamlet found this cemetery and marked it with commemorative plaques with inscriptions in Russian, nailed to two tall pine trees growing in the cemetery. The inscriptions (translated into Polish) proclaim: "The cemetery of the village of Skaczok / in this place were buried / Poles exiled in 1941 / [list of names]" and "Sleep peacefully servants of God / victims of rape and calumny / victims / of Stalinist repression".

Compiled by T. Zachara / MKiDN, VIII 2025