NEW | Representatives of state authorities and the IPN paid homage to the victims of the Volhynian genocide in the anniversary commemoration in Warsaw.
Representatives of state authorities, with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, and PM Mateusz Morawiecki, paid homage to the victims of the Volhynian genocide in the anniversary commemoration in Warsaw. President Karol Nawrocki was there on behalf of the IPN.
The celebrations began at 10.30 with a mass in the Polish Army Field Cathedral. Around noon in Wołyński Square (Gdańska Street), a joint prayer was held and wreaths laid at the Monument to the Victims of Genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Polish citizens of south-eastern provinces in the years 1942-1947. Flowers were also placed at the Monument to the Home Army 27th Volhynian Infantry Division.
The commemoration was jointly organized by the Institute of National Remembrance, Office for Veterans and Victims of Oppression and authorities of the Żoliborz District of Warsaw. It is held every 11 July, on the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," the climax of the Ukrainian-perpetrated ethnic cleansing that claimed thousands of lives, vast majority of them Polish.
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Representatives of state authorities, with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, and PM Mateusz Morawiecki, paid homage to the victims of the Volhynian genocide in the anniversary commemoration in Warsaw (ipn.gov.pl/en)