Przesiedlenia ludności ukraińskiej w dystrykcie lubelskim w latach 1942–1943
Resettlements of Ukrainian Populations in the District of Lublin, 1942–1943

Summary/Abstract: This article provides an overview of the problem of the resettlements of Ukrainian populations in the district of Lublin in 1942–1943. Those events are typically overlooked in historical research. However, they are key to any comprehensive analysis of the Nazi resettlements of populations in the Zamość area, a process of which they were part. The resettlements also provide us with a better understanding of the sources of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict in the district. The resettlements of Ukrainians were occurring in parallel with a range of repressions directed at the Polish population, but the two actions had different aims. The occupying forces’ idea was to move the Ukrainian population away from those areas that were earmarked for German colonisation and into settlements previously inhabited by Poles around the planned zone of German settlement. This way the resettled Ukrainian population would serve as a living shield protecting the German colonists from partisan attacks. According to various estimates, resettlements in the district of Lublin affected 18,000–23,000 Ukrainians. The Ukrainian Central Committee made attempts to intervene in order to influence those events, but their efforts were ineffective, a fact that discredited the Committee in the eyes of the population affected.

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