VOLYN TRAGEDY IN 1943-1944: REASONS, PASSING, CONSEQUENCES

The aim of our research is the systematization of scientific works of historians,
who were studying these events. During World War II Polish population represented
16.6% of all inhabitants of the Volyn region. When the Soviet Red Army entered into
the Western Ukrainian ethnic territories, the Polish local administration, policemen,
public figures and intellectuals, priests, private entrepreneurs, colonists, settlers were
killed by the NKVD. In 1940-1941 tens of thousands of families were deported to the
Northern Kazakhstan and the Western Siberia