82nd anniversary of the Volyn Crime. Celebrations – Warsaw, Chełm, Domastawa, 11–12.07 2025
date:10 July 2025 Editor: Editorial
82nd anniversary of the Volyn Crime. Anniversary celebrations with the participation of the management of IPN – Warsaw, Chełm, Domastawa, 11-12 July 2025
On Friday, July 11, we celebrate a fresh state holiday: National Day of Memory about Poles – Victims of Genocide made by the CNS and UPA on the east lands of the Second Republic of Poland. We invitation you to anniversaries with the participation of the IPN management.
Ceremony programme
Warsaw, July 11, 2025
The ceremony will be attended by the deputy president of the Institute of Public Administration Dr. Karol Polejowski. The Institute of National Memory is simply a co-organiser of the ceremony. Main organizer: Office for Combatants and Represented Persons.
10.00 – Holy Mass in the Polish Army Field Department (U.S. Long 13/15) in the intention of victims of genocide by Ukrainian nationalists on the citizens of the Second Republic of Poland and the fallen, dead and surviving soldiers of the 27th Volhynia National Army Infantry Division
12.00 – a joint prayer, a call of remembrance combined with the submission of bundles at the Memorial of Victims of Genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Republic of Poland in the south-eastern provinces from 1942 to 1947 (Skwer Wołyński)
c. 13.30 – ceremony of laying wreaths and flowers flowers under the Memorial of the 27th Volynian National Army Infantry Division (Skwer Wołyński)
Chełm, July 11, 2025
On the 82nd anniversary of the bloody Sunday in Volyn, Chełm, there will be celebrations commemorating victims of the Volyn Crimes with the participation of president Elekt, president of the IPN Dr. Karol Nawrocki.
The ceremony is covered by the honorary patronage of president Elect, president of the Institute of National Memory Dr. Karol Nawrocki.
19.00 – Holy Mass in the Basilica of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Lubelska Street 2)
Okay. 19.45 – after the Mass from the church the March of the Victims of Volyn will go to the Museum of Memory of Victims of the Volyn massacre and the Center of fact and Reconciliation of president Lech Kaczyński in Chełma – in the organization (Hrubieszowska 102).
20.30 – main patriotic celebrations attended by the president of the elect, president of the IPN Dr. Karol Nawrocki.
The celebrations in Chełma will be accompanied by the beginning of the IPN exhibitions:
"Volyn 1943. Victims, relationships, memorial sites". Place of presentation: 11 July – 102 Hrubieszowska Street; since 12 July – Memorial Square of the Victims of Volynska Rzeża
"Churches and chapels in Volyn with paintings by Vladimir Sławomir Dębski". Place of presentation: 11 July this year at 102 Hrubieszowska Street. Exhibition panels: downloadable
W The celebrations commemorating the Volynský Crime are held on 11-13 July 2025 (the programme attached).
Domostawa, July 12, 2025
On the solemn celebrations of the National Day of Memory on Poles – Victims of Genocide made by OUN and UPA on the east lands of the Second Republic of Poland at the monument “Rzeź Wołyńska” in Domastawa will be attended by deputy president of the IPN Dr. Karol Polejowski.
A year ago there was a solemn unveiling of the monument by Andrzej Pityński. The monument commemorates victims of genocide in the east Borders.
The ceremony is covered by the honorary patronage of president Elect, president of the Institute of National Memory Dr. Karol Nawrocki.
15.00 – Holy Field Mass chaired by Bishop Edward Frankowski, bishop of the auxiliary elder of the diocese of Sandomierz
After Mass – dedication of the Memorial Bell, commemorative speeches, Appeal of Memory, laying of wreaths and flowers and artistic part
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This year on 11 July, on the anniversary of alleged bloody Sunday (11 July 1943) we celebrate a fresh state holiday: National Day of Memory of Poles – Victims of Genocide made by the CNS and UPA on the east lands of the Second Republic of Poland. The Act of 4 June 2025 on the Establishment of 11 July of the National Day of Memory on Poles – Victims of Genocide made by OUN and UPA on the east Lands of the Second Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2025, item 891) stressed that "the martyrdom due to belonging to the Polish nation deserves to be remembered in the form of a day distinguished annually by the Polish State, in which the victims will be paid tribute".
The Act recalled that "in 1939–1946 Ukrainian nationalists from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (CNS), Ukrainian Insurgency Army (UPA) and another Ukrainian nationalist formations operating on the lands of the East Borders of the Second Republic of Poland (volyńskie, Tarnopolskie, Stanislawskie, Lvivskie, Polesie) and the present Lublin and Podkarpackie provinces have carried out genocide on the Polish population".
"They murdered more than 1 100 1000 Poles, mostly residents of the village, destroyed their property and led to refugees from east Borders of the Second Republic of Poland of hundreds of thousands of Poles. The apogee of this crime falls on July 1943, and the symbolic date of the hekatoma of Poles at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists is 11 July 1943, erstwhile Poles were murdered in about a 100 localities" - the bill says.
So far, pursuant to the resolution of the Polish Parliament of July 22, 2016, we celebrated the National Day of Memory of Victims of Genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Republic.
In the light of global legislation, the murders committed by Ukrainians mainly in Poles are classified as genocide. According to the latest estimates of Polish researchers from 1939 to 1947, up to 120 1000 citizens of the east Borders of the Second Republic died at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists: approx. 60 1000 in Volyn and at least 60 1000 in east Małopolska (Lvivian, Stanisławskie and Tarnopolskie), in Polesia and Lublin.
