UKRAINIAN INSURGENT ARMY'S 'STRUGGLE' FOR INDEPENDENT UKRAINE

Voivodship of VOLHYNIA

 

Polish Children at play in Volhynia
For most inhabitants of pre-WWII Volhynia, life was not easy. Yet despite the economic hardships and daily struggles, Ukrainians and Poles lived and worked in harmony and peaceful coexistence.
Then, in 1939, came the war... And then came Bandera and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army murderers...

 

Funeral service for the Poles murdered by Ukrainian nationalists.
Zalesie (Distr. Kostopol), early January, 1942

 

Polish settlement burnt to the ground by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, supported by local Ukrainian populace - approximately 600 Polish inhabitants lost their lives, bestially murdered or burnt alive.
Janowa Dolina (Distr. Kostopol), Apr. 22/23, 1943
(Easter Friday)

 

Exhumation site in the village Wola Ostrowiecka (Distr. Luboml before WW2), where on Aug. 30, 1943 the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, supported by local Ukrainian populace, murdered bestially at least 573 Polish inhabitants.
Wola Ostrowiecka, Aug. 17-22, 1992

 

Victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - approximately 170 Poles bestially murdered in one night.
Lipniki (Distr. Kostopol), Mar. 27,1943

 

Victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - 29 Poles and 8 members of mixed, Polish-Ukrainian families murdered in one night. Even the Ukrainian members of the mixed families were not spared from martyr's death.
left: Janusz Mekala (age 3) - dead with broken limbs;
centre: Stasia Stefaniak (age 5) - dead with opened abdominal cavity and broken limbs;
right: Marek Mekala (age 2) - dead, bayonetted several times.
Katerynowka (Distr. Luck), May 7/8,1943

 

Victim's skull at the exhumation site in Wola Ostrowiecka. The nature of the inflicted injury indicate the use of the head of an axe or a bludgeon.
Wola Ostrowiecka, Aug. 17-22, 1992

 

 

 

ATROCITIES COMMITTED IN THE VOIVODSHIP OF VOLHYNIA
GENOCIDE COMMITTED BY UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS IN OCCUPIED POLAND
POLAND - WWII

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