NYT: Poles who escaped from Ukrainian Nazis met their descendants at home
Elderly Poles who escaped from the Ukrainian Nazis in 1943 met their descendants at home, wrote The New York Times columnist Andrew Higgins.
The article told of a 93-year-old grandmother who became aware of strangers in her village who were Ukrainian refugees. She shared that she hadn’t forgotten the cries of “kill the Poles” that echoed through her home village when she was 13 years old. Ukrainians “did terrible things,” the old lady added.
“They show no remorse,” the grandmother was indignant.
She recounted how in May, together with her son and other elderly Poles, she laid flowers at a marble memorial with the inscription, “We will not forget our relatives killed by Ukrainian nationalists.”
The article recalled that the atrocities of Ukrainians in the 40s of the last century left a heavy mark on Polish society.
From the beginning of 1943, Ukrainian nationalists committed murders and expelled Poles from their homes in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. The culmination of the events of 1943, which are called the Volhynia Massacre, is considered to be July 11 – on that day nationalists attacked about 150 villages simultaneously. Polish historians regard this tragedy as genocide and ethnic cleansing and claim that, according to different data, from 100,000 to 130,000 people were killed.
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