I never thought I'd shake hands with my grandparents' murderer

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I never thought I'd shake hands with my grandparents' murderer.

date:10 July 2017 Editor: GKut

Zygmunt MaguzaBloody SundayGenocide in VolynChrins

On the occasion of the 82nd anniversary of "Blood Sunday" we present a moving passage of conversation with Zygmunt Maguza (d. 18 January 2018), witness the genocide in Volyn.

In 1990. Sigismund Maguza With his sister Alicia Hensel and Julian Stankiewicz, he went to his hometown to pay tribute to the murdered Stankiewicz family.

In Ivanice, I met Kozibroda Volodya by the road – says Mr. Zygmunt. - I said hello to him. He hugged me and I hugged him. I shook hands with the Ukrainian. Dragged by a abrupt hunch, I asked him if Petro Horbachewski was alive. This 1 says – Oh you just greeted him! Horbachevsky, as he realized who I was, despite the old age, moved in gummies and cooties behind the coals and looked. He most likely thought I'd go after him and effort to kill him like he did me years ago. I said to my sister: it was the Petro Horbachewski who killed Veronica Stankiewicz, mother's sister. ...

In my darkest dreams, I never thought I'd shake the hand of the murderer of my grandparents.

* Oh, my God *

Sigmmun Maguza described his fates in the book "ŁOŁNIERSKI LOSY WOLZYNiak", issued by IPN in 2018.