Invitation for celebrations commemorating the 80th anniversary of the crime in Pieniacka Huta
date:26 February 2024 Editor: Editorial
On 28 February, at 10.30 a.m., the Polish Army's Field Cathedral will be held Mass in intention of victims of the crime committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Pieniacka Huta 28 February 1944.
After Holy Mass, flowers will be laid under the plaque commemorating “The Victims of Genocide made between 1939 and 1945 in the East Borders on the citizens of the Republic of Ukraine by an organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the alleged Ukrainian Insurgency Army”.
At noon, a solemn change of the honorary post will be held in Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square, a memorial appeal will be read and a ceremony of laying the wreaths.
On 28 February 1944, in a village no longer existing present in the Lviv Oblast, its Polish residents were murdered by Ukrainian soldiers of the 4th Galician SS Volunteer Regiment (distributed from 14. Waffen SS Division ‘Galizien’) under German command, with the participation of the UPA branch and the paramilitary branch of Ukrainian nationalists under Vladimir Czerniawski.
The village was razed to the ground, and according to the IPN's findings, about 1,000 people were brutally murdered as a consequence of the pogrom in Pieniacka Huta. This crime is 1 of many committed within the Volyn massacre.
