Children of the Borderlands |
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| Author:
| Kulinska, Lucyna |
| Cover Design by:
| Szymanski, Pawel
Wawryszczuk, Agata |
| Translator:
| Szymanski, Pawel
Zaraska, Jakub
Szczechowicz, Jadwiga |
| Editor:
| Hughes, Michael
Peczkis, Jan |
| Designed by:
| Wawryszczuk, Agata |
| Prepared for Publication by:
| Kownacka, Agnieszka |
| ISBN: | 978-0-692-18210-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2019 |
| Publisher: | Surus Associets Ltd
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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?Children of the Borderlands" depicts one of the cruellest genocidesof the 20th century. e mass murder took place in Europe duringWorld War II, on the Eastern territories of Poland occupied by Germany.e victims of the holocaust were civilians, mainly of Polishnationality, but also Jews, Armenians, Chechs, Gypsies, and Russians.e perpetrators were Ukrainian peasants, who at the time hadPolish citizenship. ey were led into murders by nationalists fromthe Organization of Ukrainian...
More Description?Children of the Borderlands" depicts one of the cruellest genocidesof the 20th century. e mass murder took place in Europe duringWorld War II, on the Eastern territories of Poland occupied by Germany.e victims of the holocaust were civilians, mainly of Polishnationality, but also Jews, Armenians, Chechs, Gypsies, and Russians.e perpetrators were Ukrainian peasants, who at the time hadPolish citizenship. ey were led into murders by nationalists fromthe Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and hit squads of theUkrainian Insurgent Army. In the name of the barbarian ideologywhose primary principle was to create post-war, mono-ethnical, and?as clean as a glass of water" Ukraine, they committed inhumanecrimes. e ones who perpetrated those hideous atrocities particularlymerit condemnation for torturing their victims. e sophisticatedtortures were applied even on children and pregnant women.Ukrainians murdered their wives and children in mixed families.Hundreds of thousands of Poles, who had been living in voivodshipsof the 2nd Republic of Poland for ages, were either murdered orexpelled from their homes and homesteads by force.