Throughout the country there will be celebrations commemorating victims of the Volyn massacre – genocide carried out by the CNS-UPA at the east Borders of the Second Republic of Poland. president Elekt Karol Nawrocki plans to participate in the celebrations organized by the resulting Museum of Memory of the Victims of the Volyn massacre in Chełm.
W Warsaw the celebration of a fresh national vacation is organised by the Office for Combatants and Represented Persons, including the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish. The celebrations will begin at 10 a.m. Holy Mass at the Polish Army Field Chair in the intention of victims of genocide in the Kresas and the fallen, dead and surviving soldiers of the 27th Volyn Infantry Division of the AK.
SEE: Volyn on Tusk-Zelenski's agenda. "We'll solve the problem"
At 12 p.m. Memory appeal combined with folding wreaths under Monument to the Victims of Genocide in Volynsk Skwer. At 1:30 p.m., participants will pay tribute to victims of genocide under Monument to the 27th Volyn Infantry Division AK On the same square.
Masses and celebrations are planned in many localities around the country.
Karol Nawrocki will attend the celebrations in Chełm
Celebrations in Chelma start Holy Mass in the Basilica of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary at 7 p.m., after which participants will go to the next site Museum of Memory of the Victims of the Volynian Sculpture. Participation is foreseen in the celebrations President-elect Karol Nawrocki.
The representatives of the Chełmian self-government will sign the papers giving emergence to the announcement tender for modernisation of buildings intended for museum activities.
SEE: First interview after the election. Karol Nawrocki revealed the names of his associates
Saturday will be held 3rd Volynian Victims Memory Run; besides planned presentation of the book "Activities of Volyn refugees residing in the municipality of Chełm. Critical edition of 1943 document" by Edward Gigilewicz, Leon Popek and Paweł Skrok.
Sunday's celebrations at monument of Pieta Volynska in Chełma organizes the local Memory and Hope Association.
Museum of Victims of the Volyn massacre. "Poland needs this museum"
Creating Museum of Memory of the Victims of the Volynian Sculpture started in 2020. Local government, thanks to grants approximately PLN 4 million from the Prime Minister's Reserve, in 2022 he bought complex of erstwhile czarski buildings at Hrubieszowska Street. The cost of setting up the facility 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 (MKiD). The city undertook to prepare the concept and method documentation of the project. The remainder of the investment was to be carried out by the Ministry of Culture.
The agreement was concluded in November 2023, butin January 2024 ministry hersaidbecause - as the ministry explained - budget lacked adequate resources to meet multimillion commitments. Chelm has offered in this substance court action; the date of the proceeding has not yet been set.
Karol Nawrocki inactive during the presidential run during 1 visit to Chełma, he said that the Museum of Memory of Victims of the Volyn massacre is essential to make a relation with Ukraine based on truth. - I'm sorry. Poland needs this museum and this placeto build awareness of the behaviour of Ukrainian nationalists, but besides not to let forget over 120,000 victims of those who were before us - he argued.
July 11 announced Memorial Day of the Victims of Genocide
In June, the Sejm, on the initiative of PSL, adopted the Act establishing 11 July National Day of Memory of Victims of Genocide made by Ukrainian Nationalists on Citizens of the Second Republic of Poland. President Andrzej Duda signed it in early July.
The day of remembrance of Poles, victims of the Volyn crime, is celebrated on the anniversary Blood Sunday- July 11, 1943. That day (and next day) The Ukrainian Povs Dance Army has carried out a coordinated attack on Poles in 150 localities in the districts of Włodzimierz, Horochowski, Kowelski and Łutsk. According to researchers, only July 11th could have been killed. About 8,000 Poleswho were shot or killed utilizing an axe, fork, knives. It was an apogee of murders conducted from February 1943 to spring 1945.
SEE: The Polish Parliament adopted a resolution on the 80th anniversary of the Volyn massacre
According to estimates, together in this period in Volyn and east Galicia UPA troops and the Ukrainian local population murdered around 100,000 Poles. Volynsk crime caused Polish retaliation, resulting in the deaths of 10-12 1000 Ukrainians - including 3-5 1000 in Volyn and east Galicia.
Poland and Ukraine disagree in memory of the function of the Ukrainian Nationalist and Ukrainian Insurgency Army Organizations, which committed cultural cleansing of Poles from 1943 to 1945. While it was a crime of genocide (mass and organized) for Poles, it was a consequence of a symmetrical armed conflict, for which both sides were equally responsible. In addition, many Ukrainians perceive OUN and UPA due to their post-war opposition to the USSR as anti-Soviet organizations, not anti-Polish ones.
https://ipla.pluscdn.pl/dituel/cp/17/17/17i9z1hv3hupcv63si81dak9eod7pkh.jpg config.poster 
