To realize Volyn, you request to know about the Volyn massacre,
which, in turn, cannot be understood in English.
The genocide in Volyn was illogical, possessed.
There was a cleansing of Poles from this area. But why? To what end?
Witold Józef Kowalów
Oh, how easy it is for political elites present to talk about that slaughter. With what conviction about their historical uniqueness Members are voting on the Act on the Memory of Genocide in Poles. How eager are the neophytes of cognition about respective 100 ways of killing the CNS-UPA... Yes, Fr Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski was right erstwhile he said that "Kresowian was killed twice, erstwhile by blows with an axe, twice by silence." He added that "the second death is worse than the first." But, what are we to call the "third death" of those already killed twice, the death given present equally: and by liars postering themselves with political correctness and complacency, and by those filled with "good intentions" who agreed to align the Ukrainian with the bander?
Family
In 2002, in the first edition of the L:iterary Prize of Józef Mackiewicz, they were awarded Władysław Hi, and his daughter Eva for more than an crucial book for Polish historiography – “Genocide by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population Volyn 1939–1945It’s okay. ” The two-volume work is not only fundamental, but besides "life-giving" due to the fact that it restored Poland to any of its lost identity. I met the authors and, to my surprise, found my own family. In fact, the destiny of those who were not only murdered but were yet driven out of their own homes, out of their own land, and were besides attempted to take distant their miseries. In the case of my household (Mountain), as well as the families of Czaszeks, is about this part of Polish land on the Ług river belonging historically to the alleged Czerwieński Castles, where Włodzimierz Wołyński was created at the end of the 10th century.
In the Houses of the Exile, in the Houses of the Survivors, it was not said about the Holocaust. There were 2 reasons. First of all, the “everlasting friendship” between the People's Poland and the russian Union effectively obscured for decades the fact about the land lost by the Republic of Poland, which happened in all office and, of course, in school and in a serviceful culture. How could anything be said negative or even associated with our then “great brother” whose authoritative border since 1945 was the Bug River, and Volyn after Bug? The second reason was – let us usage the medical concept – trauma. If I heard anything about my family's Volyn past as a child, it's only Granny's. My mom was just afraid of the subject, she was afraid of those childhood memories where UPA killers come in the morning to “row” Lachów. In retrospect, I see that the subject of the Volyn massacre was much more political taboo than Katyn. And, shockingly, it has been on censored since the spring of 2022, that is, since the beginning of the hot armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia... However, it is different – as long as it was erstwhile silenced, it is now equally brazenly deluded.
In recalling families, let us besides mention the late ones from Podola. Vaccination of the Axe and his boy Michale, continuing his father's cannons associated with the Borderlands. Since 1990, as part of the Association of Families of Victims of Ukrainian Nationalists established in Wroclaw, Mr.Asierk has documented and, as a result, published several-volume sources devoted to the genocide of the Polish population in the border area of the II Republic. The work, which is simply a continuation of the work of the Czaszeks, is entitled “Genocide by Ukrainian Nationalists in Poles“ and it concerns the provinces of Lviv and Stanisławowski and is besides a circumstantial guide to registry monuments, memorial plates and graves in the area of the present Poland concerning the OUN-UPA murdered.
Axierko elder was the initiator of 1 of the fewer commemorations of our Holocaust in Poland. The monument-mausoleum of the murdered Polish population in the South-East Borderlands by the CNS and UPA was unveiled in Wrocław in 1999. 4 years before Stephen Siekierek's death, receiving the IPN award awarded to his Association, the curator of National Memory, said, among others, these very crucial words: "In fresh years, it was falsely assumed that the historical fact about Ukrainian crimes would harm the Polish legitimacy of the state." Would he repeat the thesis of past years today?
Authorities
In October 2006, my Theatre Not Now was the originator and organizer of a technological session in Tarnów entitled "Extermination. Genocide in Polish Borderlands 1939 – 45It’s okay. ” I think it was the first scale in the country, and surely a unique gathering of scientists and people for the title subject of the most competent. Exceptionality was due to the combination of factography and theatre, as speakers' statements were scored by artistic actions (including songs). Everything took place in a hall filled to the bank (about 400 participants, mostly young people), and the full space was staged into a burnt Polish village with culminating ruins of the church tower.
I inactive consider the speeches of invited guests as a kind of compendium of the Polish Volynsk Holocaust. First Eva, hi. (Prelation ‘From combat and panic to genocide. How did >genocidium atrox< in the Edges?) made the listeners aware of the ideological origin of Ukrainian nationalism (or, in principle, Nazism) and about the degree of the physical extermination of the Polish population. mention Dr Lucyna Kulinska (‘Extermination of the Polish population in the east Borders. Period of planned genocide 1943-44"), date after date and event after event, and everything with footnotes to sources, writes in past this "episode" of planet War II. On the another hand, Fr Prof. Józef Marecki (‘Catholic Church against genocide on the east Borders of the Second Republic. Problem outline) gives us a chance to realize the spiritual side of the banderic evil, which in his knowing and further technological enquiry is nothing more than a collective possession. Speech Romualda Sunday, an IPN historian, turned out to be unexpectedly important, which we did not full realize at the time."Fair Ukrainians. To the rescue of Polish neighbours sentenced to demolition by the CNS-UPAIt is not known whether or not you are taking advantage of me. Presidents of the session represented Dr. Paweł Juśko (‘Genocide of the Polish population in Volyn and east Galicia in the opinion of Polish and Ukrainian historiography and in modern textbooks for teaching history. Problem outline) with a subject which becomes more crucial each year, and especially now with the expanding presence of Ukrainian students in Polish schools and the availability of the "Ukrainian curriculum" dedicated by MEN. The last talker was Fr Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleskand with more than an crucial lecture (“The silent genocide in the Endlands. Polish elites towards historical fact about the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists and their victimsIt is not known whether or not you are taking advantage of me. Only the right, i.e. the uncompromising treatment of the past of the "Volyń massacre" by Fr Tadeusz is the work of the Polish elites, who must disagree from the attitude of Andrzej Duda, who only 2 years ago reprimanded Fr Isakowicz-Zaleski, who has consistently been reproving the fact for years and worthy of burial for the murdered, saying that he "would prefer" that this "He didn't do politics. He did what you should do.It’s okay. ”
State Right
Polish-speaking politicians and historians who make careers at nodding want to convince us that the national cult of the banerist rezuns sanctioned by the Kiev authorities is justified, due to the fact that it is due to the deficiency of independency tradition of Ukraine, and the only ones who fought for independency there are only individuals specified as Lebied, Szuchewycz or the main ideologist of killing – “Batko Bandera”. Krakowski Professor, Bronisław Łagowski, He erstwhile said very rightly that “Today's independent Ukraine did not grow out of UPA, but from the Ukrainian Socialist russian Republic, which gained independency under the Belarus Agreement. Yeltsin, not Bandera gave Ukraine independenceIt’s okay. ” Ukrainian delusions, supported by Anglo-Saxon interests, starting with the regulation of Viktor Yushchenko, have become the basis of Ukrainian politics, and the misfortune of our country is the uncritical adoption of this option by the ruling duoPO and PiS.
In contrast, we have a hysterical opposition which, in the Ukrainian context, can only empathize with misfortune – the past and the 1 that hangs over us in connection with the millions of immigration to Poland of people for 2 decades indoctrinated about their history. For visitors from the east, “Polish masters” are liable for all their misfortunes, almost like Jews created Polish anti-Semites-fascists.
In the meantime, it could have been completely different, as I experienced as part of theatrical peregrinations in Ukraine during the first years of its independence. There were no Nazi respondents there at the time, and many people met had a natural sense of shame and guilt for Volyn. At that time, it was adequate to base common relations on honouring the "Ukrainian righteous", which would, by the way, be a natural callback of facts. And it would be hard to have a better global sound, specified as showing these actual heroes from behind Bug, otherwise besides murdered by the banderic people. In all testimonies and memories, the Ukrainian subject of helping Poles, informing and hiding from rezunas is very clearly emphasized. That's how my grandparents and their daughter, my mom, survived.
Until recently, we were able to separate evil from good and flag from the Ukrainian. present these 2 words became a synonym displayed at rallies and marches. Publicists besides have emotional shortcuts, specified as: Jacek MiędlaThe movie reports on the “Volyńska massacre” – “NeighborsIt’s okay. ” The exact same procedure (title!) was performed by Jan Tomasz Gross in his anti-Polish book. Until late we regretted pushing Polish memory into the church's fragile (it was only possible to exposure information about Katyn or about soldiers of the Polish anti-communist underground). And today, after being placed in Domostawa "imprisoned" for years the monument "Rosze Wołyńska" by Andrzej Pityński, there are people who call for symbolic commemoration of victims of genocide in Volyn and east Małopolska on the main Warsaw necropolis. They do it under specified a crippled slogan: “Rołyń na Powązki”. At a time erstwhile neo-Bander environments place monuments in Ukraine to the murderers of Poles, and even request specified commemorations from us, why not from our authorities we ask symbolic memory for victims of genocide, but in the most crucial places for public space, e.g. under the motto: “Volyn to the Defilad Square”.
Art
The point of building the future on fact and without hatred I see in the past of a young man, a poet from the Silicone. On the eve of the memorable Sunday of July 1943, Parliaments representing Polish underground authorities were sent to the Volyn command of the UPA stationed close Kowl. They were AK officers – Mr Krzysztof Markiewicz and Lt Sigmund Rumel and the driver Witold Dobrowolski. Polish MPs were not respected. The Badgers cruelly tortured them and yet ripped them apart with horses. Rumel in the 1941 poem “Two Mothers” clearly shows the feelings that united the 2 nations surviving on that land:
... 2 Mother-Fathers taught me speech –
In a blood braid woven with berries ros –
To break my heart with pain in 2 halves—
To make the heart weep like a voice...
I have long believed that in order to realize our identity we request to express it through artistic works. We then repay our debt to God, who has given us any artistic talent. We besides pay our debts to the Father and to our ancestors. These are very circumstantial and complementary commitments. That is how I realize my responsibilities of state towards the Volyn subject. In May 2011, the production of the Theatre No Now “Volyn BalladIt’s okay. ” It is amazing that, despite the passing of years, we are inactive dealing with the only theatrical performance in Poland that truly tells about the genocide committed by the banders in Poles, and at the same time, as she reviewed it Temida Stankiewicz-Podhorecka‘, isGreat and deep as an ancient tragedy, it is simply a unique artistic workIt’s okay. ” Volyn shouts for his wise presence in the consciousness of Poles. It is as crucial as the memory of the Warsaw Uprising as the memory of the generation of the Cursed Soldiers.
Tomasz A. Żak
I took the title of this text from the religious-social periodical “Calling from Volyn”, issued since 1994 with a different frequency in Ostrog in the Diocese of Łuce in Ukraine (in Polish and Ukrainian) by a Catholic priest born in Zakopane – Witold Józef Kowalski.
