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The Polish population of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia was gripped by fear of ethnic cleansing at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists in the years 1943‑1944. This fear varied in form and intensity depending on the perceived aims which ranged from their physical extermination to simple eviction. This article attempts to analyse the fundamental determinants of Polish defensive actions in response to...
The purpose of this article is to clarify the role of Lewis Namier, a Foreign Office expert on Polish affairs, and his contribution to the drawing of the “Curzon Line” – the Polish‑Ukrainian border in Eastern Galicia after World War I. Namier was of Polish‑Jewish descent, and he has gone down in Polish historiography as a man of rabidly anti‑Polish inclination; during the war and later at the Versailles...
Głównym celem artykułu jest analiza podstawowych problemów, z jakimi zmagała się ludność polska chroniąca się w miastach wołyńskich i wschodniogalicyjskich przed eksterminacją ukraińską w latach 1943‑1944. Wynika z niej, że kwestie zakwaterowania, wyżywienia (w tym niebezpiecznych wyjazdów po żywność w rodzinne strony), ubezpieczenia przed powtórnym napadem były równie istotne, co znalezienie sobie...
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