Polish Self-defence in Volhynia. They managed to save thousands of civilians
Some Poles living in Volhynia decided to resist the attacks, with guns, knives, scythes, axes, and what else they could grab. They managed to save thousands of their compatriots. Poles, who made up a dozen or so percent of the population of Volhynia, being threatened by the massacres committed by the Ukrainian nationalists from UPA […]
The nightmare of survivors of Volhynia massacre
Stories told by the Poles who survived the genocide in Volhynia, belong to the most shocking accounts of that period In the first farmstead we made a shocking discovery. A several years old boy was impaled on a sharp pole at the gate. An inscription made on the fence read: „Litak Sikorskoho” [Sikorski’s airplane]. […]
The carnage of Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka by UPA. Two Polish villages perished in just a few hours
PIOTR WŁOCZYK: Why the massacre in Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka deserves special place in the memory of Poles? LEON POPEK: Because it was one of the greatest crimes during genocide of Poles in Volhynia. On 29-30 August 1943, UPA attacked all the villages in the Lubomelski County, where Poles lived. The banderivtsy [named in this […]
Volhynian horror – a beastly genocide of Poles
Nationalists from the Ukrainian Insurgent Party (UPA) committed a beastly genocide of Poles. They wanted to create an ethnically clean Ukraine Maciej Rosalak Already in 1942 Poles were murdered but such ethnic cleansing – such “hygienic” term is used to describe real genocide committed (as in this case) because of victims ethnic origin – started in […]