Nawrocki appealed to Zelensky for "full-scale" exhumations in Volhynia
President-elect Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not crying out for revenge, but for a "cross," a "grave," and "memory," and he is obligated to "speak with their voice."
President-elect Karol Nawrocki participated in the commemoration ceremony for the victims of the Volhynian genocide at the Volhynian Museum of Remembrance, currently being established in Chełm (Lublin Province). "We, Poles, have the right to remember the Volhynian genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember," Nawrocki emphasized.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to relive their past suffering." "We cannot accept that we, Poles, are being denied the right to bury the victims of the Volhynian genocide, because it is not revenge they are calling for: they are calling for a cross, they are calling for a grave, they are calling for remembrance, and as the future president of Poland, I am obligated to speak with their voice. No one will absolve me of this," Nawrocki emphasized.
In his speech, the president-elect addressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian ambassador to Poland. "Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as president-elect, I would like to officially appeal to Your Excellency and President Zelensky for the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumations in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) the Volhynian families are still suffering from the trauma that occurred 82 years ago," he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile truly" and "through the truth."
Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Bodnar, thanking the audience for the invitation to this "sad but very necessary ceremony," emphasized his complete agreement that the future can only be built on truth. "But we must talk about this history openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. Apologize and apologize, but also honor the memory of those victims who need it, on both sides of the border," said the ambassador.
He recalled that exhumation work had recently been carried out in Późniki, with further exhumations scheduled for Zboiska in Lviv, and permits for work in Ugła, Huta Pieniacka, and other locations requested by the Polish side were awaited. He emphasized the need for dialogue between Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians. He assured that the Ukrainian side was open to dialogue, even on difficult issues. "It's important for us now that Poland has opened up since the beginning of the war and is helping Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloodied and tortured today, but it stands and defends our shared freedom," Bodnar said.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, Chełm Mayor Jakub Banaszek signed documents authorizing the announcement of a tender for the preparation of design documentation for the modernization of the buildings designated for the Museum. "I commit to seeing this institution through to completion. I believe that Mayor Karol Nawrocki will officially open this institution," he said. He also invited President Zelensky to the museum.
The creation of the Volhynia Massacre Victims Memorial Museum and the Lech Kaczyński Center for Remembrance and Reconciliation in Chełm began in 2020. In 2022, thanks to a grant of approximately PLN 4 million from the Prime Minister's reserve, the city government acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings on Hrubieszowska Street.
The cost of establishing the facility was estimated at 180 million PLN, of which 162 million PLN was to be a grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm committed to preparing the concept and technical documentation for the project. The remaining investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture, providing for a construction subsidy and a decision to co-manage the institution, was signed in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024, the Ministry decided to terminate the agreement—as explained, among other reasons, due to a lack of funds to meet multi-million dollar obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this matter.
In his speech, Karol Nawrocki emphasized that the important and unique museum in Chełm "must be established even against the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government." – This museum must be established and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland – stated the president-elect.
The Day of Remembrance of Polish victims of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army launched a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Volodymyr, Horokhiv, Kovel, and Lutsk counties. Researchers estimate that approximately 8,000 Poles may have died on July 11 alone, shot or killed with axes, pitchforks, or knives. This was the peak of the killings carried out from February 1943 to the spring of 1945.
In total, over 100,000 Poles died in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia during this period, murdered by UPA units and the local Ukrainian population. The Volhynian massacres resulted in Polish retaliation, resulting in the deaths of 10,000-12,000 Ukrainians, including 3,000-5,000 in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine have long been divided by their memories of the role of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which committed genocidal ethnic cleansing of Poles between 1943 and 1945. While Poland saw this as genocide (mass and organized), Ukrainians viewed it as the result of a symmetrical armed conflict for which both sides were equally responsible. Furthermore, many Ukrainians perceive the OUN and UPA as exclusively anti-Soviet, not anti-Polish, organizations due to their postwar resistance to the USSR.
In June of this year, at the initiative of the Polish People's Party (PSL), the Sejm passed a law establishing July 11 as a national holiday, the Day of Remembrance of Poles – Victims of Genocide Perpetrated by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it in early July. (PAP)
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President-elect Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not crying out for revenge, but for a "cross," a "grave," and "memory," and he is obligated to "speak with their voice."
President-elect Karol Nawrocki participated in the commemoration ceremony for the victims of the Volhynian genocide at the Volhynian Museum of Remembrance, currently being established in Chełm (Lublin Province). "We, Poles, have the right to remember the Volhynian genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember," Nawrocki emphasized.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to relive their past suffering." "We cannot accept that we, Poles, are being denied the right to bury the victims of the Volhynian genocide, because it is not revenge they are calling for: they are calling for a cross, they are calling for a grave, they are calling for remembrance, and as the future president of Poland, I am obligated to speak with their voice. No one will absolve me of this," Nawrocki emphasized.
In his speech, the president-elect addressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian ambassador to Poland. "Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as president-elect, I would like to officially appeal to Your Excellency and President Zelensky for the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumations in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) the Volhynian families are still suffering from the trauma that occurred 82 years ago," he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile truly" and "through the truth."
Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Bodnar, thanking the audience for the invitation to this "sad but very necessary ceremony," emphasized his complete agreement that the future can only be built on truth. "But we must talk about this history openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. Apologize and apologize, but also honor the memory of those victims who need it, on both sides of the border," said the ambassador.
He recalled that exhumation work had recently been carried out in Późniki, with further exhumations scheduled for Zboiska in Lviv, and permits for work in Ugła, Huta Pieniacka, and other locations requested by the Polish side were awaited. He emphasized the need for dialogue between Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians. He assured that the Ukrainian side was open to dialogue, even on difficult issues. "It's important for us now that Poland has opened up since the beginning of the war and is helping Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloodied and tortured today, but it stands and defends our shared freedom," Bodnar said.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, Chełm Mayor Jakub Banaszek signed documents authorizing the announcement of a tender for the preparation of design documentation for the modernization of the buildings designated for the Museum. "I commit to seeing this institution through to completion. I believe that Mayor Karol Nawrocki will officially open this institution," he said. He also invited President Zelensky to the museum.
The creation of the Volhynia Massacre Victims Memorial Museum and the Lech Kaczyński Center for Remembrance and Reconciliation in Chełm began in 2020. In 2022, thanks to a grant of approximately PLN 4 million from the Prime Minister's reserve, the city government acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings on Hrubieszowska Street.
The cost of establishing the facility was estimated at 180 million PLN, of which 162 million PLN was to be a grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm committed to preparing the concept and technical documentation for the project. The remaining investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture, providing for a construction subsidy and a decision to co-manage the institution, was signed in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024, the Ministry decided to terminate the agreement—as explained, among other reasons, due to a lack of funds to meet multi-million dollar obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this matter.
In his speech, Karol Nawrocki emphasized that the important and unique museum in Chełm "must be established even against the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government." – This museum must be established and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland – stated the president-elect.
The Day of Remembrance of Polish victims of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army launched a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Volodymyr, Horokhiv, Kovel, and Lutsk counties. Researchers estimate that approximately 8,000 Poles may have died on July 11 alone, shot or killed with axes, pitchforks, or knives. This was the peak of the killings carried out from February 1943 to the spring of 1945.
In total, over 100,000 Poles died in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia during this period, murdered by UPA units and the local Ukrainian population. The Volhynian massacres resulted in Polish retaliation, resulting in the deaths of 10,000-12,000 Ukrainians, including 3,000-5,000 in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine have long been divided by their memories of the role of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which committed genocidal ethnic cleansing of Poles between 1943 and 1945. While Poland saw this as genocide (mass and organized), Ukrainians viewed it as the result of a symmetrical armed conflict for which both sides were equally responsible. Furthermore, many Ukrainians perceive the OUN and UPA as exclusively anti-Soviet, not anti-Polish, organizations due to their postwar resistance to the USSR.
In June of this year, at the initiative of the Polish People's Party (PSL), the Sejm passed a law establishing July 11 as a national holiday, the Day of Remembrance of Poles – Victims of Genocide Perpetrated by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it in early July. (PAP)
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President-elect Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not crying out for revenge, but for a "cross," a "grave," and "memory," and he is obligated to "speak with their voice."
President-elect Karol Nawrocki participated in the commemoration ceremony for the victims of the Volhynian genocide at the Volhynian Museum of Remembrance, currently being established in Chełm (Lublin Province). "We, Poles, have the right to remember the Volhynian genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember," Nawrocki emphasized.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to relive their past suffering." "We cannot accept that we, Poles, are being denied the right to bury the victims of the Volhynian genocide, because it is not revenge they are calling for: they are calling for a cross, they are calling for a grave, they are calling for remembrance, and as the future president of Poland, I am obligated to speak with their voice. No one will absolve me of this," Nawrocki emphasized.
In his speech, the president-elect addressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian ambassador to Poland. "Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as president-elect, I would like to officially appeal to Your Excellency and President Zelensky for the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumations in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) the Volhynian families are still suffering from the trauma that occurred 82 years ago," he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile truly" and "through the truth."
Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Bodnar, thanking the audience for the invitation to this "sad but very necessary ceremony," emphasized his complete agreement that the future can only be built on truth. "But we must talk about this history openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. Apologize and apologize, but also honor the memory of those victims who need it, on both sides of the border," said the ambassador.
He recalled that exhumation work had recently been carried out in Późniki, with further exhumations scheduled for Zboiska in Lviv, and permits for work in Ugła, Huta Pieniacka, and other locations requested by the Polish side were awaited. He emphasized the need for dialogue between Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians. He assured that the Ukrainian side was open to dialogue, even on difficult issues. "It's important for us now that Poland has opened up since the beginning of the war and is helping Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloodied and tortured today, but it stands and defends our shared freedom," Bodnar said.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, Chełm Mayor Jakub Banaszek signed documents authorizing the announcement of a tender for the preparation of design documentation for the modernization of the buildings designated for the Museum. "I commit to seeing this institution through to completion. I believe that Mayor Karol Nawrocki will officially open this institution," he said. He also invited President Zelensky to the museum.
The creation of the Volhynia Massacre Victims Memorial Museum and the Lech Kaczyński Center for Remembrance and Reconciliation in Chełm began in 2020. In 2022, thanks to a grant of approximately PLN 4 million from the Prime Minister's reserve, the city government acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings on Hrubieszowska Street.
The cost of establishing the facility was estimated at 180 million PLN, of which 162 million PLN was to be a grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm committed to preparing the concept and technical documentation for the project. The remaining investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture, providing for a construction subsidy and a decision to co-manage the institution, was signed in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024, the Ministry decided to terminate the agreement—as explained, among other reasons, due to a lack of funds to meet multi-million dollar obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this matter.
In his speech, Karol Nawrocki emphasized that the important and unique museum in Chełm "must be established even against the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government." – This museum must be established and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland – stated the president-elect.
The Day of Remembrance of Polish victims of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army launched a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Volodymyr, Horokhiv, Kovel, and Lutsk counties. Researchers estimate that approximately 8,000 Poles may have died on July 11 alone, shot or killed with axes, pitchforks, or knives. This was the peak of the killings carried out from February 1943 to the spring of 1945.
In total, over 100,000 Poles died in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia during this period, murdered by UPA units and the local Ukrainian population. The Volhynian massacres resulted in Polish retaliation, resulting in the deaths of 10,000-12,000 Ukrainians, including 3,000-5,000 in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine have long been divided by their memories of the role of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which committed genocidal ethnic cleansing of Poles between 1943 and 1945. While Poland saw this as genocide (mass and organized), Ukrainians viewed it as the result of a symmetrical armed conflict for which both sides were equally responsible. Furthermore, many Ukrainians perceive the OUN and UPA as exclusively anti-Soviet, not anti-Polish, organizations due to their postwar resistance to the USSR.
In June of this year, at the initiative of the Polish People's Party (PSL), the Sejm passed a law establishing July 11 as a national holiday, the Day of Remembrance of Poles – Victims of Genocide Perpetrated by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it in early July. (PAP)
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President-elect Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not crying out for revenge, but for a "cross," a "grave," and "memory," and he is obligated to "speak with their voice."
President-elect Karol Nawrocki participated in the commemoration ceremony for the victims of the Volhynian genocide at the Volhynian Museum of Remembrance, currently being established in Chełm (Lublin Province). "We, Poles, have the right to remember the Volhynian genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember," Nawrocki emphasized.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to relive their past suffering." "We cannot accept that we, Poles, are being denied the right to bury the victims of the Volhynian genocide, because it is not revenge they are calling for: they are calling for a cross, they are calling for a grave, they are calling for remembrance, and as the future president of Poland, I am obligated to speak with their voice. No one will absolve me of this," Nawrocki emphasized.
In his speech, the president-elect addressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian ambassador to Poland. "Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as president-elect, I would like to officially appeal to Your Excellency and President Zelensky for the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumations in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) the Volhynian families are still suffering from the trauma that occurred 82 years ago," he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile truly" and "through the truth."
Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Bodnar, thanking the audience for the invitation to this "sad but very necessary ceremony," emphasized his complete agreement that the future can only be built on truth. "But we must talk about this history openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. Apologize and apologize, but also honor the memory of those victims who need it, on both sides of the border," said the ambassador.
He recalled that exhumation work had recently been carried out in Późniki, with further exhumations scheduled for Zboiska in Lviv, and permits for work in Ugła, Huta Pieniacka, and other locations requested by the Polish side were awaited. He emphasized the need for dialogue between Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians. He assured that the Ukrainian side was open to dialogue, even on difficult issues. "It's important for us now that Poland has opened up since the beginning of the war and is helping Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloodied and tortured today, but it stands and defends our shared freedom," Bodnar said.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, Chełm Mayor Jakub Banaszek signed documents authorizing the announcement of a tender for the preparation of design documentation for the modernization of the buildings designated for the Museum. "I commit to seeing this institution through to completion. I believe that Mayor Karol Nawrocki will officially open this institution," he said. He also invited President Zelensky to the museum.
The creation of the Volhynia Massacre Victims Memorial Museum and the Lech Kaczyński Center for Remembrance and Reconciliation in Chełm began in 2020. In 2022, thanks to a grant of approximately PLN 4 million from the Prime Minister's reserve, the city government acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings on Hrubieszowska Street.
The cost of establishing the facility was estimated at 180 million PLN, of which 162 million PLN was to be a grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm committed to preparing the concept and technical documentation for the project. The remaining investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture, providing for a construction subsidy and a decision to co-manage the institution, was signed in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024, the Ministry decided to terminate the agreement—as explained, among other reasons, due to a lack of funds to meet multi-million dollar obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this matter.
In his speech, Karol Nawrocki emphasized that the important and unique museum in Chełm "must be established even against the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government." – This museum must be established and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland – stated the president-elect.
The Day of Remembrance of Polish victims of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army launched a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Volodymyr, Horokhiv, Kovel, and Lutsk counties. Researchers estimate that approximately 8,000 Poles may have died on July 11 alone, shot or killed with axes, pitchforks, or knives. This was the peak of the killings carried out from February 1943 to the spring of 1945.
In total, over 100,000 Poles died in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia during this period, murdered by UPA units and the local Ukrainian population. The Volhynian massacres resulted in Polish retaliation, resulting in the deaths of 10,000-12,000 Ukrainians, including 3,000-5,000 in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine have long been divided by their memories of the role of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which committed genocidal ethnic cleansing of Poles between 1943 and 1945. While Poland saw this as genocide (mass and organized), Ukrainians viewed it as the result of a symmetrical armed conflict for which both sides were equally responsible. Furthermore, many Ukrainians perceive the OUN and UPA as exclusively anti-Soviet, not anti-Polish, organizations due to their postwar resistance to the USSR.
In June of this year, at the initiative of the Polish People's Party (PSL), the Sejm passed a law establishing July 11 as a national holiday, the Day of Remembrance of Poles – Victims of Genocide Perpetrated by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it in early July. (PAP)
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President-elect Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not crying out for revenge, but for a "cross," a "grave," and "memory," and he is obligated to "speak with their voice."
President-elect Karol Nawrocki participated in the commemoration ceremony for the victims of the Volhynian genocide at the Volhynian Museum of Remembrance, currently being established in Chełm (Lublin Province). "We, Poles, have the right to remember the Volhynian genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember," Nawrocki emphasized.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to relive their past suffering." "We cannot accept that we, Poles, are being denied the right to bury the victims of the Volhynian genocide, because it is not revenge they are calling for: they are calling for a cross, they are calling for a grave, they are calling for remembrance, and as the future president of Poland, I am obligated to speak with their voice. No one will absolve me of this," Nawrocki emphasized.
In his speech, the president-elect addressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian ambassador to Poland. "Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as president-elect, I would like to officially appeal to Your Excellency and President Zelensky for the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumations in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) the Volhynian families are still suffering from the trauma that occurred 82 years ago," he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile truly" and "through the truth."
Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Bodnar, thanking the audience for the invitation to this "sad but very necessary ceremony," emphasized his complete agreement that the future can only be built on truth. "But we must talk about this history openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. Apologize and apologize, but also honor the memory of those victims who need it, on both sides of the border," said the ambassador.
He recalled that exhumation work had recently been carried out in Późniki, with further exhumations scheduled for Zboiska in Lviv, and permits for work in Ugła, Huta Pieniacka, and other locations requested by the Polish side were awaited. He emphasized the need for dialogue between Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians. He assured that the Ukrainian side was open to dialogue, even on difficult issues. "It's important for us now that Poland has opened up since the beginning of the war and is helping Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloodied and tortured today, but it stands and defends our shared freedom," Bodnar said.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, Chełm Mayor Jakub Banaszek signed documents authorizing the announcement of a tender for the preparation of design documentation for the modernization of the buildings designated for the Museum. "I commit to seeing this institution through to completion. I believe that Mayor Karol Nawrocki will officially open this institution," he said. He also invited President Zelensky to the museum.
The creation of the Volhynia Massacre Victims Memorial Museum and the Lech Kaczyński Center for Remembrance and Reconciliation in Chełm began in 2020. In 2022, thanks to a grant of approximately PLN 4 million from the Prime Minister's reserve, the city government acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings on Hrubieszowska Street.
The cost of establishing the facility was estimated at 180 million PLN, of which 162 million PLN was to be a grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm committed to preparing the concept and technical documentation for the project. The remaining investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
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President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
Ren/ Sno/ Par/
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
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President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
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President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
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President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
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President Elekt Karol Nawrocki appealed in Chełm to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumations in Volhynia. He emphasized that the victims of genocide are not calling for revenge, but "cross", "grave" and "memory", and he is obliged to "speak their voice".
President Elekt Karol Nawrocki in the area of the Museum of the Memorial of Victims of the Volyn slaughter created in Chełm (Lublin) took part in the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia. - We Poles, mother, the right to remember about Volyn genocide regardless of changing times and circumstances. And we will remember - emphasized Nawrocki.
As he pointed out, "there are no nations chosen to experience their suffering from the past." - We cannot agree that we are refused, Poles, the right to bury the victims of Volhynia genocide, because they are not calling for revenge: they call for the cross, call for a grave, call for memory, and as the future Polish president I am obliged to speak in their voice. Nobody will slow me down - emphasized Nawrocki.
In his speech, the President of Elekt turned to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski and the Ukrainian ambassador in Poland. - Once again, Mr. Ambassador, as the president of Elek, I wanted to officially ask Excellency and President Zelanski for the possibility of taking full -scale exhumation in Volhynia. Poles are waiting for this truth, and (...) Volyn families still suffer in connection with the trauma that happened 82 years ago - he said.
According to Nawrocki, this is necessary for Poland and Ukraine to "reconcile themselves" and "due to truth."
The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Wasyl Bodnar, thanking for inviting this "sad but much needed celebration" emphasized that he completely agrees that the future can only be built on the truth. - But we have to talk about this story openly. Of course, call the crime a crime. I apologize and apologize, but also to worship the memory of those victims that need it, on both sides of the border - said the ambassador.
He reminded that exhumation work was recently carried out in late, the next ones are to be in Zboiska in Lviv, and permission to work in the host, Huta Pieniacka and other places, which the Polish side asks. He emphasized that a dialogue of Polish and Ukrainian experts and historians was also needed. He assured that the Ukrainian side is also open to dialogue in difficult matters. - It is important for us now with Poland has been opened since the beginning of the war and helps Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine is bloody, tormented today, but stands and defends our common freedom - said Bodnar.
Letters to the participants of the ceremony in Chełm were also sent by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Deputy Prime Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
During the ceremony, President Chełm Jakub Banaszek signed documents enabling the tender to prepare project documentation regarding the modernization of buildings intended for the museum's activities. - I undertake that this institution will be implemented to the end. I believe that President Karol Nawrocki will solemnly open this institution - he said. He also invited to the Museum of the President of Zelnski.
Creating in Chełm Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of the Volyn slaughter and the Remembrance and Reconciliation Center Lech Kaczyński began in 2020. The city's self -government in 2022, thanks to a subsidy of approx. PLN 4 million from the reserve of the Prime Minister, acquired a complex of 11 former tsarist buildings at ul. Hrubieszowska.
The cost of creating the institution was then estimated at PLN 180 million, of which PLN 162 million was to be a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The city of Chełm undertook to prepare the concept and technical documentation of the undertaking. The rest of the investment was to be implemented by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement between Chełm and the Ministry of Culture assuming the grant for the construction and decision to co -conduct the institution in November 2023. A few months later, in January 2024. The ministry decided to terminate it - as explained - including due to the lack of funds for the implementation of multi -million obligations. The city of Chełm filed a lawsuit in this case.
Karol Nawrocki in its speech emphasized that an important and unique museum in Chełm "even contrary to the decisions of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the current government" - this museum must be created and this museum will always have the support of the President of Poland - said President Elekt.
The day of memory of Poles victims of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Polish Republic is celebrated on July 11, on the anniversary of a bloody Sunday.
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian insurgent army made a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 towns in the Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck poviats. According to researchers, only 8,000 could die on July 11. Poles who were shot or killed with ax, forks or knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
In total, over 100,000 died in Wołyń and Eastern Galicia during this period. Poles, murdered by UPA troops and local Ukrainian people. The Volyn crime caused Polish retaliation, as a result of which 10-12 thousand died. Ukrainians, including 3-5 thousand in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine for many years differ from the role of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, which in 1943-45 committed genocidal ethnic purge on Poles. While for the Polish side it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized), for the Ukrainians it was the result of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, for many Ukrainians, OUN and UPA, due to their post -war resistance movement towards the USSR, are seen as only anti -Soviet, not anti -Polish organizations.
At the initiative of PSL, the Sejm in June this year accepted the Act on the establishment of the State Day on July 11 as a day of memory of Poles-victims of the genocide made by the OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. President Andrzej Duda signed it at the beginning of July. (PAP)
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