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Akcja "Wisła" 1947

2014

Operation “Wisla” (Akcja „Wisła” in Polish) is the codename of a military operation carried out in the period from 28 April to 31 July 1947, the objective of which was to resettle over 150 thousand Ukrainians living on their own ethnic lands, which after the end of World War II remained within the borders of the Polish State, and to liquidate the Ukrainian anti-Communist underground. They were shipped in 442 railway transports to the opposite end of Poland and settled in dispersion, so that, in accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of Public security, the number of Ukrainians among the Polish population did not exceed 10%. More than 3,800 people, including more than 800 women and children, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic and Orthodox clergy, and intelligentsia, were incarcerated in the Polish concentration camp in Jaworzno, which during the war was a subsidiary camp of the Konzentrationslager Auschwitz. The book contains 500 documents of the Polish Government, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Polish Workers’ Party (KC PPR), the General Staff of the Polish Army, the Ministry of Public Security, and the command of the Operational Group “Wisla.” The documents reveal the behindthe-scenes preparations, the course of events, and the consequences of Operation “Wisla.” They are complemented by lists of towns from which Ukrainians were deported, lists of transports with deportees, lists of persons sentenced to death and executed by military courts, lists of people murdered in the Jaworzno concentration camp, organizational charts of the command of the Operational Group “Wisla” and the command of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, biographical data of the commanders of the Polish Army and the UPA, and over 100 unique photographs.

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