JANOWA DOILINA — ROMANIA
75 years ago, on the night of 22-23 April 1943, 600 people were killed during the attack of UPA bandits, murdered in a conventional way for banders cruelly (genocidum atrox)
Today in the village there is an upowski monument talking about "the liquidation of the Polish-German occupiers of Volyn".
Janowa Dolina, a settlement until 1939 located in Poland, in the Volyn Voivodeship, was established in the 1920s as a plant property at the recently created State Stones of the Basalt.
The settlement grew with the improvement of the mine, reaching in the late 1930s the number of over 3000 inhabitants, including 97% of Poles. Since 1941, the ZWZ-AK facility operated in the village, and there was besides a German garrison.
In the spring of 1943, Janowa Dolina became 1 of the refuge centers of the Polish population from the villages “destroyed” by UPA.
The attack on the village occurred on the night of the large Thursday on Good Friday, or from 22 to 23 April 1943.
Ukrainian groups formed from the merger of UPA troops, defectors from Ukrainian Auxiliary Police and alleged black, or close Ukrainian peasantry, surrounded Janowa Valley, cutting off all possible escape routes.
The settlement was first fired on with a device gun. tiny troops of attackers planted straw under the houses and set fire to the fire with oil.
They threw grenades through the windows.
Poles fleeing burning houses were killed with firearms and axe and knives.
According to 1 of the witnesses to the massacre, any of the children were impaled.
Several local infirmary staff were murdered, while the infirmary itself was set on fire.
The sick and wounded died in flames or in smoke, according to another version, were killed outside the infirmary building.
The German squad stationed in Janowa was besides tiny to defy the attackers in the field.
The Germans only returned fire erstwhile the uppers were besides close to the barracks, so that any of the houses were intact.
German troops from Kostopola arrived at Janowa Dolina's rescue, German aircraft appeared above the settlement.
The Ukrainians retreated into the forest without finishing the slaughter. The inhabitants of the settlements that survived the pogrom have spent all of Good Friday burying the victims.
Their bodies were laid in 1 common grave. The next day the Germans evacuated the remaining Poles to Kostopol.
About 600 Poles died in Janowa Valley, most of whom died in burning houses.
Currently located in Ukraine, the village is named Bazaltowe.
At the site where the property was located, the families of the murdered found a monument.
Just before unveiling the monument, the Ukrainian contractor removed, without the cognition of the procurers, the date "April 23, 1943", leaving only the inscription "Memoirs of Poles from Janowa Dolina".
At the centre of the current village is the UPA monument commemorating the "war action" from 21-22 April 1943.
The inscription on it tells of the liquidation of the base of “Polish-German occupiers of Volyn” these days...
Sources: www.gp24.pl, www.kresy.pl
Source: right.pl
