Szczepan Siekierka

Szczepan Siekierka is a Polish writer, prolific essayist, and the President of the Polish Society for the Remembrance of the Victims of Crimes Committed by Ukrainian Nationalists SUOZUN (Polish: Stowarzyszenie Upamiętnienia Ofiar Zbrodni Ukraińskich Nacjonalistów), registered in 1992 and located at ul. Oławska 2 street in Wrocław, Poland. Siekierka is a frequent contributor to SUOZUN Society's own periodical Na Rubieży, established also in 1992.[1][2] Siekierka was the initiator as well as the President of the Committee for the Building of Monument to Victims of the Volhynian Genocide, since October 1994, selected by a joint committee of several other organizations. He is the co-author of several monografies on the subject of massacres of Poles across the Kresy region in World War II,[3] written in collaboration with other writers including Henryk Komański, former member of Polish self-defence from Wołyń Voivodeship. Szczepan Siekierka has defended Operation Vistula, the forced deportation of 130,000–140,000 ethnic Ukrainians from southeastern Poland.[4]

Wrocław, Monument to Victims of Crimes Committed by Ukrainian Nationalists (initiated by Siekierka)

Books co-written, published by Nortom

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