About Ukrainian genocide in Łódź

The content of the statement, presented at the Łódź march commemorating victims of Ukrainian nationalists at the east ends of the 2nd Poland from 1939 to 1947.

In connection with the commemoration of the victims of the Ukrainian genocide of Poles in Volyn during the years of planet War II, we find that many years of activities of various environments bring about an increase of awareness of the importance of these events in the fresh past of Poland. More and more Poles recognise that the future of Polish-Ukrainian relations is problematic without designation of work for the genocide in Volyn. Many years ago, the designation of work by Russia for Katyń contributed to the closure in public consciousness of this wound in Polish historical memory.

We express our appreciation for people and environments, which, despite many adversities, led to the unveiling of a monument to the victims of Ukrainian genocide in the Poles. The consequence of this event was the wider introduction of the subject of the settlement of the genocide carried out in Volyn to public discussion in Poland, including in the media, which so far suppressed specified a discussion. We believe that, erstwhile appearing in front of the monument in Domastawa during the election campaign, President-elect Karol Nawrocki made a commitment to Poles regarding unresolved cases related to Ukrainian genocide in Poles, including the exhumation of victims. From this commitment, which may have contributed to his election victory, will be accounted for by voters.

The unprecedented engagement of Poland (both society and state institutions) in charitable, material and military aid to Ukraine in the war with Russia did not contribute to the change of attitude of the Ukrainian State to recognise work for genocide in Poles. Declared by the Ukrainian side, the unlocking of the consent to the exhumation caused exhumation work in 1 location without equal participation of the Polish side in a way that did not rise doubts about the reliability of documenting the work carried out.

We call upon all those who hold real political power in Poland, regardless of organization and organizational affiliation, to act to exhume victims of the genocide in Volyn at all points of crime, to guarantee the participation of the Polish side in these exhumations in specified a way that reliable documentation of the actions carried out. In the face of the imminent deaths of fresh witnesses of the crime and people with cognition of the burial sites of the victims, we are faced with the possible of historical revisionism from the Ukrainian side, both in terms of work for crimes and in terms of the number of victims. The Polish State has effective tools to accomplish this goal in the form of making aid to Ukraine dependent on the actual exhumation of Polish victims.

The resolution of the parliament establishing on 11 July the National Day of Memory of Poles – Victims of Genocide made by the CNS and the UPA on the east lands of the Second Republic of Poland should be supplemented by a evidence in the penal code which penalizes flagism, which is simply a criminal and anti-Polish ideology.

The wound in Polish historical memory should yet be closed: on the basis of designation of Ukrainian work for genocide, cessation of glorification of perpetrators and worthy burial of the murdered.