Poland starts long-sought exhumation of WW2 victims in Ukraine

RECIT - Several tens of thousands of Polish civilians were massacred during the Second World War by Ukrainian nationalists in a "genocidal" enterprise according to Poland. This Thursday is the first operation to exhume mass graves in Ukraine.

Polish experts resumed on Thursday, after a break of several years, the exhumation of victims of the massacre of ethnic Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in Volhynia (northeastern Ukraine), a tragedy during World War II, but which has...

Poland starts long-sought exhumation of WW2 victims in Ukraine

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has begun exhuming the remains of Poles killed by Ukrainian nationalists during World War Two in the former Polish village of Puzniki, after long-standing demands from Warsaw over the issue, which has caused friction between the…

Exhumations of Volyn massacre Polish victims begin in western Ukraine

This is the first such exhumation since 2017, when Ukraine imposed a moratorium in response to the destruction of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) memorials in Poland.

Janina Lewandowska was detained in the camps in Kozielsk and Ostaszków. The Soviets killed her on April 22, 1940. She was buried in the Katyn Forest.

Pelhřimov - The burning of Leskovice in the Pelhřimov region in May 1945 is, according to Miroslava Kvášová, historian of the Pelhřimov Highlands Museum, one of the many tragedies of the end of World War II that have not become widely known. That is why she is pleased when the archive documents that the museum has on the event are used by researchers of the youngest generation. After a shootout with German soldiers, SS units invaded Leskovice on…