Genocide in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia 1943–1944
Genocide in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia 1943–1944
Author(s): Paweł NaleźniakSubject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: Genocide; Volhynia and Eastern Galicia; Ukrainian Nationalists; the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Summary/Abstract: Ukrainian nationalists tried to de-polonize the South-Eastern Borderlands by means of mass genocide and they achieved this goal to a great extent. That, however, puts them on a par with the criminal regimes of Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. The author of this article describes the genocide of Polish inhabitants in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia committed by the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (Orhanizatsiya Ukrayins’kykh Natsionalistiv, OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya, UPA) between 1943 and 1944. These events in European history are not well-known.
- Issue Year: 3/2013
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 29-49
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English
