The president decided. On July 11, the day of memory of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia

On Wednesday, President Andrzej Duda signed the Act of June 4, 2025 on the establishment of July 11 as the National Day of Remembrance for Poles – the victims of the genocide made by the OUN and UPA in the Eastern Territories of the Second Polish Republic.

The purpose of the Act is to establish a new state holiday – National Day of Remembrance for Poles – victims of the genocide made by the organization of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian insurgent army (UPA) in the eastern lands of the Second Polish Republic, celebrated on July 11.

The act reminded that “in 1939–1946 Ukrainian nationalists from the organization of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN), Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and other Ukrainian nationalist formations operating in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic (Volhynia, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Lviv, Poleskie) and the current voivodships) and the current voivodships Lublin and Podkarpackie made the Polish crime of genocide to the population. “

“They murdered over one hundred thousand Poles, mainly the inhabitants of the village, destroyed their property and led to refugee from the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. Hundreds of thousands of Poles. The apogee of this crime falls in July 1943, and the symbolic date of the hecatoms of Poles at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists is July 11, 1943, when Poles were murdered in about a hundred.” It proclaims the act.

The act also reads that “martyr's death due to belonging to the Polish nation deserves to be heartfighted in the form of a day distinguished by the Polish state every year, in which victims will be paid tribute.” (PAP)

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