We are publishing today the text by Agnieszka Nagrodzka, who is fighting for the truth about the Ukrainian genocide of Poles.
First, a few words of my reflections on this topic.
Every Pole should ask themselves the question:
Why do we not want to remember one of the most horrific crimes in history—not only of Poland, not only of Europe, but of the entire world?
The very word genocide is too weak. “Volhynian Slaughter”—this term better captures the essence of this crime. But let us remember that it did not concern only Volhynia, but a much larger area.
Now ask yourselves one more question:
Why is the Katyn Massacre, in which several tens of thousands of Polish soldiers—adult men—were murdered, widely shown and serves as a pretext for building hatred toward Russians,
while the Volhynian crime, in which entire families—women, children, and the elderly—were murdered in a bestial manner, remains a topic that is still hushed up?
According to the research of Ewa and Władysław Siemaszko—authors of the most detailed study on the UPA crimes in Volhynia:
Poles: approx. 60,000 victims (only in Volhynia),
Poles in the entire Southeastern Borderlands (Volhynia + Eastern Galicia + Lublin region): total approx. 100,000–120,000 victims,
Jews: no complete data; some Jews hiding after the Holocaust were also murdered by the UPA—estimates speak of several hundred to several thousand victims,
Russians (mainly settlers and civilians in the service of the Soviet administration): various estimates—several hundred to approx. 1,000 victims.
In summary:
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army and OUN-B nationalists murdered from approx. 100,000 to 130,000 people, of whom the vast majority were Poles.
I will add that the Ukrainians also murdered about 20,000 Soviet prisoners of war to show even more that they murdered only the defenseless—children, women, the elderly, and prisoners.
Main source:
Ewa and Władysław Siemaszko, “Genocide Committed by Ukrainian Nationalists Against the Polish Population of Volhynia 1939–1945”, Warsaw 2000.
And now the question:
Is this supposed to be a reason for us Poles to help and support the descendants of these murderers?
Start thinking.
Thinking doesn’t hurt—but stupidity hurts a lot.
Read this and other posts published by Mrs. Agnieszka Nagrodzka, among others on the X platform.
I encourage you to follow and support.
Arkadiusz Niewolski.
You have a bit of the “friendly” relations of Ukrainians toward their neighbors—the Poles. Definitely November, witnesses did not provide the day.
In the village of Kozaczyzna, Borszczów county, the Banderite Kyryło Gabrych abducted a 25-year-old Polish woman, Stefania Awanturę, from her home. After a few days, her body was found in a nearby forest. She was hanging by both hands from a tree branch. Beneath her were traces of a bonfire; she had burned feet and the lower part of her clothing (Komański…, p. 43).
In the village of Turówka, Skałat county, they murdered a 28-year-old Pole named Skwarek, married to a Ukrainian woman. His body was found in March 1944 by the bank of the Zbrucz River. It was wrapped in barbed wire, and in the victim’s head, several nails driven in were discovered (Komański…, p. 352).
In the village of Krzywcza Górna, Borszczów county, they abducted five Poles from their homes and murdered them in a nearby forest, including the 18-year-old Julia Kamińska and the 21-year-old Maria Kamińska. The found bodies bore traces of torture, numerous stab wounds, torn-out fingernails, bodies burned with fire, breasts cut off from the women, who had been raped before the torture (Komański…, p. 44).
In the village of Krosienko, Przemyślany county, they murdered, among others, the 30-year-old Jan Kopociński. “When he approached the gate, he was stabbed with a knife. When he fell, the Banderites began beating him with their fists until he was unconscious, then dragged him toward the barn. In the barn, one of the tormentors drove a wooden stake about five–six centimeters thick into his throat with great force; another hit the stake several times with an axe, which easily passed through the larynx and emerged on the opposite side, embedding deeply into the ground” (Wiktor Błażków, in: Komański…, p. 779).
In the village of Hukałowce, Zborów county, they murdered 10 Poles, including the 19-year-old Filip Błażków. They hanged him on a post, doused him with gasoline, and set him on fire—he burned alive.
In the village of Wasylkowce, Kopyczyńce county, “Ukrainian partisans” abducted a 30-year-old Polish woman, Pelagia Węgrzynowicz, wife of a non-commissioned officer of the Polish Army, into the forest. There they tied her to a tree, gouged out her eyes, cut out her tongue, and mutilated her breasts. Her body was found after a few days.
In the village of Podczahryk, Zaleszczyki county, belonging to the Torskie sub-village, the UPA carried out an attack at 5 a.m. and murdered 31 Poles. Most, after being robbed, were burned alive in buildings. Among the victims there were only two men over 17 years old; the rest were women and children, including: a mother in advanced pregnancy with four children, two mothers each with two daughters, a pregnant mother and her 3-year-old son, a mother with daughters aged 17, 19, and 23.
And now notice this bestiality—this deliberate tormenting, inflicting as much suffering as possible on their victims: axe, fire, stake, barbed wire—in this way they deprived them of life. There was no mercy there, zero conscience—they enjoyed it, it gave them pleasure.
And today—“heroes,” “veterans.” It would be fitting to ask, who did they fight and in what war?
It was a planned, deliberate genocide—that is the truth. They were and are ordinary MURDERERS, nothing else. Anyone who denies this or tries to justify it is not worthy of the name of human.
Agnieszka Nagrodzka.
Catholic during the Great Apostasy 
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