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Today, 11 July, is marked the National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists against citizens of the Second Polish Republic.

The Day of Remembrance was established on 22 July 2016 by a resolution of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland and is related to the anniversary of the events of 11 and 12 July 1943, when the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) launched a coordinated attack on the Polish inhabitants of about 100 villages in the districts of Vladimir, Horokhov, Kowel and Lutsk. The actions of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists were the culmination of a wave of murders and expulsion of Poles from their homes that had lasted since 1943, resulting in the deaths of approximately 100,000 Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.

In the province of Opole, ceremonies commemorating these events were organised in front of the Ludwik Malinowski Monument on the Obrońców Przebraża Square by the mayor of Niemodlin. It was in Niemodlin where the inhabitants of Przebraż, who from July 1943 to January 1944 had fought against forces of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, settled after the war.