This year we will celebrate for the first time the National Day of Memory of Poles – Victims of Genocide made by the CNS-UPA in east Borders of the Second Republic of Poland. The president just signed a bill on this. “This is another step in the respectable memory of Poles murdered in Volyn and east Małopolska”, commented Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
Monument to the Victims of Genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on the citizens of the Second Republic in the south-eastern provinces from 1942 to 1947.
With a memorial initiative victims of the Volyn massacre Members of the Polish People's organization (PSL) came out. In June, the parliament adopted a bill establishing the 11th day of the Polish Memorial – Victims of Genocide made by the CNS-UPA at the east Borders of the Second Republic of Poland. Yesterday president Andrzej Duda reported that he signed the bill. “This is another step in honor of the memory of those murdered in Volyn and east Małopolska who died for being Poles,” said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Minister of National Defence in social media.
The date of July 11 refers to the so-called. Blood Sunday In 1943, during which Ukrainian nationalists made coordinated attacks on almost 1 100 Polish tiny towns and villages located in Volyn and east Małopolska. Only that day, according to historians Władysław and Ewa Czaszków and the Institute of National Memory, could 3 to 4 1000 Poles: women, children and old people be killed. It is estimated that 10 to 12,000 people were murdered in July 1943.
Persecution of Poles in Volyn, Podol and in east Małopolska lasted from 1943 to 1945. In the purges conducted by Ukrainian nationalists from UPA and members of local militias, 50 to over 100,000 Poles lost their lives. These events were called Volyn massacre due to the mass and brutality of the crime.
The fresh state vacation is symbolic and is not a public holiday.