September, 2021
The first volume of the project “Victims of the Ukrainian-Polish Confrontation of 1939-1947” was presented by the UCU Publishing House in Lviv
At the 28th Publishers' Forum in Lviv, on September 17, 2021, the publishing house of the Ukrainian Catholic University held a presentation of the first volume of the research project “Victims of the Ukrainian-Polish Confrontation of 1939-1947”. In addition to the authors Ihor Halahida of Poland and Myroslav Ivanyk of Canada, the presentation was attended by Archbishop Borys Gudziak, a stipend recipient of the Ukrainian Studies Fund and a Ph.D. graduate of the Ukrainian Studies Program at Harvard University. The main result of this study was a list of identified victims, confirmed by verified information, regarding the dead, in many sources and documents. Thus, the number of victims presented in the book differs from the general data, which until now have been quite uncritically used in Polish and Ukrainian historiography. In 2019, the USF began to organize various events in the community in support of new research on the history of the Polish-Ukrainian confrontation. The appearance of the project’s first volume titled "Ukrainian Victims of Kholmshchyna and Pidliashshia" is not only a fruitful result of eclectic research activity in the archival institutions of Canada, Poland, Ukraine and the USA, but also evidence of specific academic support and successful endeavors on the part of the USF.
