How to survive: the issues of Polish residents of cities of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in the face of genocide during the last years of German occupation. Cover Image

Jak przetrwać? Problemy bytowe zagrożonych zagładą Polaków w miastach Wołynia oraz Galicji Wschodniej w końcowych latach okupacji hitlerowskiej
How to survive: the issues of Polish residents of cities of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in the face of genocide during the last years of German occupation.

Author(s): Ernest Komoński
Subject(s): Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Volhynia; Eastern Galicia; Poles; German Nazi occupation; extermination; cities and towns; forced stay

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of this article is to analyse the fundamental issues, which affected the Polish population hiding in the cities of Volhynia, and Eastern Galicia from the massacres carried out in the years 1943‑1944 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. This article proves that the issues of finding accommodation, food (including risky to home towns), and shelter from subsequent assault were as important as finding an occupation that would allow to the most modest subsistence while averting the risk of deportation by the German‑Ukrainian administration to forced labour in the Third Reich.

  • Issue Year: 50/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 87-101
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish