Marek Baterowicz: SEPTEMBER YEARS

The most beautiful of the September anniversary is the conflict of Vienna, September 12, 1683. We already know almost everything about it, and late the Solidarnych2010 portal mentioned it in detail, so let's go to others.

The outbreak of the Second planet War is besides an crucial date, little happy, but well known to everyone, so let us go consecutive to those dates that we have unfortunately celebrated little often.

It's September 14, 1997 by the Council of the planet Polonia Day Polish Christian Holocaust. And the patron of that day is St. Maximilian Kolbe. Unfortunately, this day devoted to the victims of Nazism and Bolshevikism was seldom celebrated. Is it due to the fact that that day was not established until 1997? Earlier this was possibly impossible, although more initiatives could be taken on emigration despite the existence of the russian Empire and besides of the People's Poland. For specified reasons, the anniversary of the russian attack on Poland on September 17, 1939 was besides seldom celebrated, and the documentation of these terrible crimes could not be conducted for the peerless times, due to the fact that as Jerzy Kornacki wrote “...IPN couldn’t wait for 1 typewriter and not 1 closet and died without being born”. russian crimes were not allowed to be accused of “liberators”, and in addition, the state subsidized mainly the archiving of Holocaust crimes.(I quote for “Poles saving Jews” by Janina Hera, 2014, p.17). So it was not until 2014 that “Red Apocalypse” (Krakow, AA, p.384) Piotr Szubarczyk, who most likely presented the most accurately the mass extermination of Poles at the ends of russian aggression on September 17. I wrote about his volume devoted to these unheard-of-the-mill massacres that transcend mass Nazi executions. That is why it is amazing that we do not frequently find publications about these crimes, even any volumes of historians omit them, and they compose about the extermination of the German occupation. So this unilaterality is simply a immense disadvantage of historical works, and 1 must remember about these massacres at the end of September 17th – in Lviv and many towns – while the cruelty of the Soviets did not have borders: people were killed with hammers in the back of the head, burned or buried alive, gymnasians were dragged onto ropes behind tanks, cunningly killed by grenades, and not only shot in death marches, due to the fact that in prisons people were poisoned with soup. present I will remind you that Szubarczyk besides places there the accounts of miraculous survivors, and these are shocking descriptions of these crimes (vide pp.118-120), he besides gives a list of localities affected by these massacres (p.36-40), e.g. in Rohatyn specified a slaughter lasted all day (here he quotes Pogod-Malinowski, Volume 3 of his “Historia”). After all, we must treat our martyrdom with full respect, and so besides take into account the memory of russian crimes committed after the invasion of Poland on September 17, due to the fact that it was an detonation of immense and shocking massacres – exceeding the size of Katyn crime – and besides a tragic introduction to inhuman deportations to Siberia, which in full justifies calling them genocide. It is besides essential to keep in head the Polish NKVD operation from 1937/38, at the end of which over 111 1000 Poles surviving in Belarus and Ukraine were shot, as historians called Polish Holocaust in the USSR (see “Arcan” No. 106-107 from 2012). The day of the Polish Christian Holocaust (14 September) and the date of sneaky aggression on September 17 at the end of the Second Republic are so duplicate dates and signs of large mourning. Their memory complements the framework of Polish martyrdom. The “Red Apocalypse” mentioned here would be an excellent addition as a reading in advanced schools to the excellent textbook of the past of Prof. Wojciech Roszkowski, due to the fact that the author could not deal in item with russian crimes of 1939 due to the time frame of his volume.

Marek Baterovich