On 11 July, the National Memorial Day of the Victims of Genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on the citizens of the Second Republic. It is simply a state holiday, established in tribute to victims of the Volyn crime – but it does not affect a day off from work.
July 11 is not a day off
"They murdered more than 1 100 1000 Poles, mainly residents of the village, destroyed their property and led to refugees from east Borders of the Second Republic of Poland of hundreds of thousands of Poles. The apogee of this crime falls on July 1943, and the symbolic date of the hekatoma of Poles at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists is 11 July 1943, the alleged 'bloody Sunday', erstwhile Poles were murdered in about a 100 towns" - it was written in a bill that Andrzej Duda late signed.
As added, "the martyr's death due to belonging to the Polish nation deserves to be remembered in the form of a day distinguished annually by the Polish state, in which the victims will be paid tribute".
Let us remind: on 11 and 12 July 1943 the Ukrainian Pows Dance Army carried out a coordinated attack on Poles in the counties of Włodzimierz, Horochowski, Kowelski and Łutsk of the erstwhile Volynsk Voivodeship.
The gathering of people in churches was used. "Blood Sunday" is considered to be the highest minute of genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in Volyn and east Galicia from 1943 to 1945. As a result, about 100,000 Poles died.
