The last tragic chapter in the history of the Dominican monastery in Podkamień near Brody in the Stanisławów Voivodeship (now Ukraine) took place in the last weeks of the German occupation, in the summer of 1944. The barricaded monastery became a refuge for hundreds of Poles, Latin-rite Catholics who fled their homes in response to stories of atrocities committed by armed Ukrainian nationalists in Volhynia. At one point, when the German police threatened to blow up the monastery buildings, most of the refugees had to leave them. Those who remained - an estimated 26 people, adults and children, including three monks and one priest - were detained by the army and killed. In total, about 300 people died in Podkamień and the surrounding area during this period. The account of the events in Podkamień from the end of September 1943 to August 2, 1944 was written by an eyewitness, Father Józef Burda OP (1905-1978), who managed to escape from the besieged monastery and, like many other Poles, hid with a Ukrainian families. Father Burda's account is complemented by a short testimony of Father Marek Kras, OP (1890-1962), the last prior of Podkamień. In it, he talks about the last months of the monastery's history before its liquidation by the Soviet authorities on June 9, 1945.