The Volyn Memorial shelter on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Volyn Order - from the archive

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date:July 02, 2023 Editor: Editorial

In the framework of the task of Silver Poland past AND CULTURE financed by the Programme of the Institute of the National thought of Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski – PATRIOTIC FUND – Freedom in Polish – edition 2023 July 2nd Solidarni210 Association organized the Volyn Memorial shelter on Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, other the Presidential Palace. In the program: Volyn poetry, songs, historical drawing performed by Agnieszka Hałaburdzin-Rutkowska and Hanna Dobrowolska. Anna Ładzinska read the Letter of the Murdered Families. The voice took the descendants of the Volyn murdered.
We print a detailed script of celebrations and photos taken by MB and RS.

"Wolyńska Rzez" in 1943 was without a uncertainty the crime of 'Ludicide'. The decision to initiate the uprising in Volyn was made at the 3rd OUN-B Conference (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists of Bandera), held from 17 to 23 February 1943. There was a conviction on Volyn, where Poles did not have any guerrilla troops to defend and carrying out "Rzezi" was very easy.

During "Rzezi" the CNS-B created its armed arm, which adopted the name Ukrainian Pows dancing Army at the turn of April and May 1943. The genocidal action apogee in Volyn occurred on 11 July 1943, on the day of the Ukrainian feast of Peter and Paul. On that day Ukrainian nationalists and local population attacked Polish residents simultaneously in more than 1 100 villages and on 12 July attacking another 50 Polish settlements.

Genocide on Polish citizens residing in the east Lands of the Second Republic of Poland made in 1939 – 1947 by Ukrainian nationalists included not only Volyn (vołyń province), but besides Lviv, Tarnopolskie and Stanisławskie provinces – i.e. Małopolska East, including part of the provinces bordering Volyn: Lubelszczyzna ( Lublin province) (from the west) and Polesia (Polish province) (from the north).

The perpetrators of the genocide on Polish citizens of the Second Polish Republic (including Volynian Crimes 1943) – the structure of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists of the faction Stepan Bandera (OUN-B) and its armed arm Ukrainian Army Powstance (UPA) in their own papers the planned extermination of the Polish population was referred to as "Anti-Polish Action".

OUN propaganda presented Polish citizens, Poles (also Armenians, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Jews) as natural enemies of Ukrainian people. This is confirmed by the words popular among UON activists of the song "We were born of the blood of the nation", 1 of the verses of which reads, "Death, Death, Lachom Death" Death of Moscow-Jewish cursed commune He's leading us OUN to a bloody fight."

Two mothers

Sigmund Jan Rumel, July 1941

I've got 2 Mother-Fathers hounding my head -

One amber comb brushed her hair

A second reef of porohs washing corals

She failed on liras with a pit of blind - fate...

One eye danced with a goldlit belt,

The another one's neck was pounding - drunk as a bumblebee -

One barefoot took sadness behind the blue -

The second hen of hers drank a rebellious scythe

Two Mother-Fathers taught me how to talk -

In a braid of blood woven with berries ros -

To break my heart with pain in 2 halves -

To make your heart cry like a voice...

The murders on the Polish population began in September 1939. The entry of Germans on 22.06.1941 triggered the activation of the CNS and its militias, which caused the first single murders on Polish intelligence, but it was not as public as in 1943.

The number of victims of the extermination of the Polish population began to emergence avalanchely – from Volyn, Polesia to east Małopolska. In 1943, the devastated agrarian population began to defend itself to close towns and cities.

The first mass execution on the Polish population in 1943, carried out with peculiar cruelty, took place in the colony of Parrosza I, where at least 155 Poles were murdered on 9 February 1943.

In the summertime and autumn of 1943, Ukrainian panic OUN-UPA reached immense sizes. The exterminations of the Polish population started in the districts of Sarne, Kostopolska, Ryeński and Złbunowski in June 1943 expanded to the districts of Dubeński and Łucki, and in July 1943 covered the area of Köllsk, Włodzimierski and Horochowski, and in August besides the territory of Lubelski.

On 10 July 1943, a poet and an officer of the Polish Army – Zygmunt Jan Rumel went as an envoy of the delegate of the Polish Government to the CNS command to effort to halt the slaughter of Poles by UPA bands. The Parliamentary Zygmunt Rumel together with the typical of the Wołyński territory of the AK Krzysztof Markiewicz and the coach-man of Witold Dobrowolski were detained by an armed squad and murdered by a teardrop of horses, and their dismembered bodies were buried in a common grave in a place not yet established (near the village of Kustycze).

Especially bloody was Sunday, July 11, 1943, on the day of the Ukrainian feast of Peter and Paul. On the day of dawn, Ukrainian troops of UPA - with the active support of the local Ukrainian population - attacked at the same time over 100 Polish villages in Volyn (in Kowelski, Włodzimierz, Horochowski and partially Łutsk) and 5 churches during the service there.

Inhuman slaughter of civilians and demolition occurred. Researchers calculate that 8 - 12 1000 Poles – mainly women, children and old people – died on just 1 day. The Polish population died from bullets, axes, forks, knives and another tools, besides in churches during Masses of St. The OUN – UPA group's organized action was a genocide, and its goal was to destruct the Polish population, not to expel it, as any historians and publicists say.

Volyn

Józefa Radzyminska

November 1943.

[from the Sword and Plow Movement letter ‘Kuźnia’]

The flow of blood has darkened the worlds,

The bulldoze of her roaring wheels defiles the sun!

how hard news – it kills the knife of the light,

A pregnant parent can't find her fathers.

To children who are stuck in fork, it hurts the eyes.

fire like spasms rips a mad scream –

– the grandpa will not give back the land of hoarse spit

- erstwhile he kicked him with blood with a smeared hat.

She burst the fire of the crazy past of the gang,

plowed the dawn of smoking ashes of the blast –

– God did not quit in churches for trade

When his head was cut off, he fell down the threshold of the sacristians.

Burning like a chaotic man's blunt eyes –

blind from blood from stinking battles –

A deadly march hits a shovel.

Step broke up –

But the blood shed forbids to make it

Temple robberies were not an accident. Banderovists were talking about murdering as many Poles as possible, i.e. during the Mass, Poles went to the church sometimes several, respective kilometres to attend the Sunday Mass and died together with priests. Only this 1 “bloody Sunday” on July 11, 1943, about 200 parishioners together with the parish priest Bolesław Szawłowski died in the church in Poryck. Fr Jan Kotwicki died in the chapel in Chrynów with a group of about 150 parishioners.

In the face of danger, Poles were forced to leave their homes by fleeing to the towns and towns where there were Hungarian and German troops. It is simply a paradox that Poles, threatened by UPA, were forced to search refuge in the Germans, and in 1944–1945 in the Soviets, from whom they had suffered so much persecution.

Only a fewer tried to defend themselves by creating self-defense facilities. The most celebrated of them are the Clothes (over 10,000 Poles defended themselves), From about 100 Polish self-defence centers due to deficiency of weapons, ammunition and command staff, fewer defended themselves.

The extermination of the Polish population in 1943 in Volyn had a crucial impact on the improvement of the Polish underground, including the creation of the largest guerrilla unit during the business – 27 Volynian National Army Infantry Division. The division, which was formed as part of the “Burza” action (January–February 1944), had a highest of over 6.5 1000 soldiers.

After mass exports and arrests by the NKVD and repression by the Germans (exit for forced labour to the Reich, arrests, camps and mass shootings) Poles in Volyn in 1943 accounted for only 10–12% of all residents. They were an cultural group deprived mostly of social activists, intelligence, military. Survivors, mutilated, alone, deprived of basic livelihoods Poles did not pose a threat to Ukrainians or make conflict situations, even at all costs avoiding them. This should be stressed due to the fact that any Ukrainian historians question these facts.

Edges

Maria Dorota Pieńkowska

We came to finish those Masses of Volyn

We came to pray to you

Powerless God Kresovians

When you turned the Holy Face

pain without measure

Only Christ screams:

Why did you leave me?

continued to the end with the Ends\

Endless Suffering

the end of planet and trees

apple cut into trunk

I don't want them to give birth again.

fruit so good and sweet

The patient gardener

took care of the fig tree

at another time

on another land

He gave this 1 a wound.

And the gloomy shadow

east and west

And present he gave this day

When grey children of murdered mothers

stand in the heart of a cold city

and – like all day

for 7 decades

They ask us for love

[from volume of poems "Night of Light" , Warsaw 2015]

Since autumn 1943, the action of genocide has been transferred to the territory of the east Małopolska Provinces (Lwów Voivodeships, Stanisławowski and Tarnopolskie Voivodeships), as well as to Lublin Region.

According to estimates of Polish researchers, the genocide of Ukrainian nationalists in Poles consumed about 200 1000 victims. Those who survived had to flee and leave their land forever. At least 485 1000 Poles (125 1000 from Volyn, 300 1000 from east Małopolska, 60 1000 from Chełmszczyzna) escaped the extermination of Ukrainian CNS UPA .

According to the explanation and justification in the works of Prof. Ryszard Szabłowski, the Volynsko-Nopolopolska crime was the 3rd genocide in the Polish nation, after the German and russian crimes committed during planet War II. The perpetrators utilized strict racial and cultural segregation – they killed their victims only due to the fact that they were Poles. The losses of the Roman Catholic Church on the east Lands of the Second Republic at the hands of the CNS-UPA in 1939–1947 are about 200 people (priests, monks and nuns). It is besides worth noting that as a consequence of the actions of UPA, around 70% of the parish in Volyn ceased to exist. At least 62 churches (38.7%) and 33 chapels (20%) were destroyed, burned and devastated. These shares were conscious and deliberate. This was the biggest blow to Catholic life in the Diocese of Lutsk during planet War II.

Photo

[Polish children murdered by UPA]

Lusia Ogińska

On an old photograph

of the 40th

a bloody tree grows,

and children crucified...

Wires, like roses, woven into wrists...

Angel is not above them,

The year is forty-fourth,

in a photograph in the winter...

They're hanging in the shadows today,

the pain stopped them in the photo,

The incorrect time stopped their part,

And the planet has changed, changed...

And they inactive hang for Poland...

Mothers in leaves and kirach,

No larks, no priest,

There's no whispering, no fairy...

only grave trees,

And barbed wire, like roses...

Five, four, and only half a spring...

Another is the world.

And another trees have grown.

And roses, and a white angel...

Five, 4 and half.

The kids had...

Years!

There's another world, another world...

I've got a photograph of an old man.

pain of infinity trapped

children's eyes dead,

with frozen white religion on the trees of the branches.

The cry is long gone.

I don't know.

They will go to Our Lady,

They'll go to her.

About 2000 towns where Poles lived in 1939, as a consequence of the activities of the OUN-UPA band was erased forever from the map. The martyrdom of respective tens of thousands of Poles in Volyn for the present day is commemorated by a cross placed in an honest field (rather a monument) in little than 150 towns. To date, there is no commemorative sign in about 1350 towns in Volyn, where Poles died at the hands of the OUN-UPA band. Thousands of death pits await the exhumations of the Ukrainians murdered by Poles worthy of Christian burial. Ukraine is the only country that refuses this right to the deceased.

Prosecutors of the IPN Investigative Division are presently conducting 32 investigations into the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists on Polish citizens. They are classified as a genocide crime. The legal basis for these investigations is Article 118(1) of the 1997 Criminal Code, which introduced the concept of genocide into Polish interior law. In accordance with the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and punishment of Genocide Crimes, it is defined as an act "made to destruct in full or in part national, ethnic, racial or spiritual groups as such".

Some scientists are inclined to usage the word genecidium atrox (a monstrous genocide). Thus considering the crimes of the bandiers as "higher" in terms of cruelty from the genocide committed by the Nazis or Stalinists.