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Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War II

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After the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists. Tens of thousands of Poles were tortured and murdered, not by foreign invaders, but by their fellow citizens--sometimes neighbors, relatives, and former friends. The children who survived them vividly remember these atrocities and now, many decades later, tell their tragic tales. These accounts, never before published in English, describe the brutal murders these children witnessed, their own miraculous survival, and the heroic rescues that saved them.

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    078644245X
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    978-0786442454
  3. Publisher
    McFarland & Company
  4. Publication date
    September 8, 2008
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    7 x 0.66 x 10 inches
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    331 pages
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“survivors tell of the brutal torture and murder of thousands of Poles...vividly document[s] a terrifying episode in history”―Booklist; “the most complete account...one of the few books telling of this horrific episode published in English. The intensity of the brutality...is both consistent and mindboggling. The excerpts are both poignant and heart-rending”―Against the Grain; “sobering...useful and detailed chronology”―Stone & Stone Second World War Books; “important...meticulous scholarship...pleasingly rounded off with five appendices, 25 tables and 12 maps, all of which provide further detailed information about this truly appaling genocidal episode”―The Journal of Holocaust Education.

About the Author

Tadeusz Piotrowski is a professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire in Manchester where he also teaches courses in anthropology and the Holocaust, and where he served as the Associate Dean of Faculty. He has received many awards including the Outstanding Associate Professor Award. He lives in Manchester.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McFarland & Company (September 8, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 331 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 078644245X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0786442454
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.66 x 10 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Carpe Diem
5.0 out of 5 stars Unique book
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2021
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This is the only English language history book I could find that tackles the atrocities of some nationalist Ukrainians against Poles during WWII in eastern Poland's Wolynia ( now absorbed into Ukraine) , and then the retaliations, as invasions first by communists and then by Nazis disrupted the existing social order.
A recent movie that took on this subject is "Hate" ( in Polish, with subtitles).

You need a strong stomach to get through the gore in this book, ( and in the movie) and to appreciate the horror and insanity of what people went through. The author has excellent documentation of the attempted genocide, and also writes about good people who refused to to along with the slaughter.
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Darlene Fields
5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing the Truth to Light of The Wolyn (Volyn) Massacre
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2016
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Informative book that I bought for my mother a survivor of the Wolyn Massacre. She was so happy to get the book but so sad and read the book and told me how what was written was true and I knew it was as she had told me the story all my life. She was a little girl in Poland and later came to the USA. I'm glad someone has written and brought to light what happened to the people there.
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Jiri Mensik
5.0 out of 5 stars important book, but really depressing
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2014
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The book is a collection of stories of Poles who managed to survive the systematic genocide in Volyn (roughly the north west region of today Ukraine) committed by Ukrainian nationalists.

The history is repeating - people from the same region are doing similar things again.
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ted
5.0 out of 5 stars Be wary of your neighbors
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2023
My Jewish family remembers the Ukrainian auxiliary police under German command to be more sadistic than their overlords. Our family was from Tarnopol which had a significant Jewish and Polish community. After assisting the Germans in exterminating the Jews they deserted with their weapons and training to become “ freedom fighters”. Our mother remembers them collaborating more with the Germans than actually fighting them. It was then that they turned their attention to exterminating their other deadly enemy; Polish old men, women and children.
Usually in nighttime ambushes of sleeping hamlets and reminiscent of the “Aktionen”practiced by you know who, a flare would signal the beginning of an orgy of murder involving the use of instruments such as hatches. No surprise a significant percentage of concentration camp guards were Ukrainian. These are documented facts.
These patriots became the Ukrainian Partisan Army. Apparently they thought the way to an independent Ukraine lied in exterminating their national minorities. This book is disturbing to read but a necessary testament
Of history.
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Tomeo
5.0 out of 5 stars Bitter truth about UPA child murders finally revealed
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2006
The story of Polish civilians of Wolyn massacred by UPA-OUN Nazis finally see the light... In contrary to what's been said here by UPA-OUN apologists the book by Piotrowski is not one-sided. I don't know, but Ukrainians probably expected reaching out to the times of by Polish nobility like Jarema Wisniowiecki in 17th century to show Poles were guilty of bad deeds too, but hey - folks this book is placed in WW2 times, and it's not about history of Ukraine.

I am very glad that massive amount of historical material and proves that 'glorious' UPA-OUN commited crimes on women and children that would put Hitler's SS to shame (a hedgehog into pregnant woman's womb, cutting a man in half, hanging children by barbed wire around their necks etc). Arguments that these massacres of Polish peasants (about 60.000 people - mostly woman and children) were provoked by Polish attacks doesn't hold the water for anybody who know a little bit of history and demographics of that region. Polish elites had been already deported to Siberia by Stalin's order and Poles (mostly peasants) constituted only 16% of ethnic mosaics there. Additionally they were under oppressive Nazi rule. How these people could attack anybody? Only UPA-OUN whitewashers would know.

Although most of UPA 'heroes' fans would deny that (natural psychological reaction of perpetror) the REAL Ukrainian heroes were those who hid their Polish neighboours from UPA child murderes. As far as I know there were a couple of hundreds of them SHOT by UPA for helping Poles. To this very day some of these people who survived are afraid to reveal their names fearing UPA cheerleaders' revenge.

Only in truth there can be reconciliation and only in truth both of our nations can move along - whitewashing UPA's genocide against Polish civilians from 1943 will not help that. All in all, recommended reading for anybody interested in mechanism of ethnic cleansing.

P.S.

Apart from this book I strongly recommend book 'Genocide' by Siemaszko's.
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Andrzej
4.0 out of 5 stars Accurate telling of tyranny, terror and perdition
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2001
This book is accurate testimony of what happened in SE Poland during the war. It describes the perdition of the Ukranians and their acts of inhumanity. That the Ukranians became pro-Nazi is understandable, as for them the Russians were the real enemy. However, that does not mean it was the right decision for these unfortunate people. It certainly does not mean their behaviour is condonable. The Ukranians failed in socio-political decision-making at the end of the First World War, when Russia was out to stomp both Ukranian and Polish liberty. Unfortunately, the Ukranians could not come to agreement with any of the three Polish factions in the conflict and were left in isolation. They did not learn from history - in the 1400s, Poland and Lithuania put aside their considerable differences to defeat the God-approved genocide machine that was the Teutonic Knights. Five hundred years on and Poland defeated the Russians - the last people do so - while Ukranian liberty was crushed. The only positive thing to come from Ukranian pro-Nazism was a deep pool of bribable camp guards: the only perk for the doomed inmates.
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