Poland recognizes July 11 as Volynia Genocide Day

[Jaga]

and nobody opposed. The story of brutal killing of thousands, altogether at least 100 thousands of Poles, mainly farmers, who lived in Volynia and neighboring provinces and died from hands of Ukrainian nationalists should be recognized long time ago.
Why it didn't? I did not fit it a normal stereotype of bad Germans or Russians... since these were Ukrainians.

This was the deliberate action and people were killed in a drastic ways, with axis cutting their heads.

here is more:

sputniknews.com/europe/20160722/1043448444/poland-sejm-resolution-geocide.html

Polish lower house of parliament approved by 432 votes a resolution Friday recognizing July 11 National Remembrance Day of a 1943-45 genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Lawmakers in the Polish lower house of parliament adopted a resolution Friday recognizing July 11 National Remembrance Day of a 1943-45 genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists.

The resolution generated support from 432 parliament members against 10 abstentions in a vote broadcast by Poland’s TVN24 news channel.

[Jaga]

Ukrainian president kneeled at the honor of slaughtered Poles, see the pictures
uatoday.tv/politics/ukrainian-president-kneels-to-honour-slaughtered-poles-691514.html

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has commemorated the victims of the Volyn tragedy, a notorious 1943-44 massacre during the Polish-Ukrainian conflict.

During his NATO summit in Warsaw visit, Poroshenko knelt before the monument to the victims. He was accompanied by MP Nadiya Savchenko, and representatives of Ukraine's government.

unfortunately the previous progressive president Yushchenko.... gave Bandera, who organized the crime the award:

On 22 January 2010, on the Day of Unity of Ukraine, the then-President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko awarded to Bandera the title of Hero of Ukraine (posthumously) for "defending national ideas and battling for an independent Ukrainian state."[92] A grandson of Bandera, also named Stepan, accepted the award that day from the Ukrainian President during the state ceremony to commemorate the Day of Unity of Ukraine at the National Opera House of Ukraine.[92][93][94][95]

[Jaga]

Here are pictures of the organized killing of Polish settlers and farmers in Volynia:

ksiazki.wp.pl/gid,18423544,page,2,tytul,Wolyn-we-krwi-Brutalna-prawda-na-temat-przerazajacej-rzezi,galeria.html

[pieter]

Dear Jaga,

My Polish family from Warsaw experienced the Ukrainian thugs in Warsaw during the war, they weren't UPA members, but Ukrainian SS and equally brutal as the UPA in Volynia against the Poles. They were so crual, means and vicious that even the hard core German/Austrian nazi's were abhored by their behaviour.


“Glory to the heroes!” Poster for the memory of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA, aka UPA).

My Polish grandparents narrowly escaped from death encountering pillaging Ukrainian Nazi thugs in Warsaw during the Warsaw uprising in their neighborhood (Mokotow). The Ukrainians and Russians were more feared than the Germans there during the uporising due to their brutality and thus barbarism. Why? Because sometimes there were decent Wehrmacht soldiers and even German WQaffen SS. But the Ukrainians, Russian Rona and German criminal units were terrible ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Dirlewanger ). They went around massacring, torturing, raping and pillaging Warsaw women, children and men. The Polish people and resistance (Armia Krajowa) hated them. If an Ukrainian or Waffen-SS (German or Austrian soldier or officer) were caught they were shot immediately.

The UPA thugs from South-Eastern Poland and the Ukraine were not less brutal than the Nazi einsatz gruppen or the NKVD assasination squads. What they did to the Poles in Volynia was the same as the Nazi's did to the jews in Babi Yar in Ukraine.


Organization of Ukraian Nationalists in Ostrog, Ukraine, in December 1943.


Soldiers of the UPA

[Jaga]

Pieter, the problem is that everybody knows about Jewish genocide, like Babi Jar, but only recently the awareness about other types of genocides became more known.
In Poland we had very little knowledge about the fact that the Volynia's action was so brutal and so well organized. It was a part of UPA, not the whole UPA, so called banderowcy that is responsible for this murder, but the fact that Bandera received a medal of an Ukrainian hero is really a shame.

here is another picture from Volynia's story:


from so called "Bloody Sunday" which happened on July 11 and 12 when Poles were attacked in 150 settlements in the same time. They were attacked mainly in the churches. 50 churches were destroyed. The human losses were so heavy, in Gurow from 480 Poles only 70 survived, in Orzeszyn from 340 people 270 were killed....and so on and on..

[Jaga]

In some areas Poles became more aware what is going on and moved together - from several villages to one and tried to protect themselves by using guards. For instance in village Lipnik about 20 men were guarding at night whether anybody tries to attack the village. During night 18-19 March 1943 they caught an ex Ukrainian policemen with two other people who tried to burn the village. They took him to the German police and he was hanged.

A week later the village was attacked. There was altogether 700 people from different villagers there....the village was surrounded and it was a terrible gun fire, because of that not only people were dying but the wooden huts with straw roofs got fire. There was a chaos, but the attackers were killing indiscriminantly because of fire or being killed by ax. 182 people were killed in this brutal action of Ukrainian attackers

[Jaga]

I will post more on Volynia in a week, since I am trying to study this subject more, but since the Pope is in Krakow I try to turn our attention into something less sad.