The search for the remains of victims of the Volhynia tragedy has been completed in the Lviv region
On June 20, search operations for the remains of victims of the Volhynia tragedy concluded in the former village of Huta Penyatska in the Lviv region. The investigation was conducted in the Pidkamin community of Zolochiv District as part of efforts to identify and honor the memory of those who perished during the tragic events of the past.
The search operations in the former village of Huta Peniatska took place from June 8 to 18. The search for the remains of the village’s residents, who tragically perished in February 1944, was conducted by the Limited Liability Company “Specialized Institution ‘Volyn Antiquities’” with the participation of Polish experts—staff members of the Institute of National Remembrance of the Republic of Poland.
The search operations were carried out in accordance with agreements reached following the work of the Ukrainian-Polish Working Group on National Memory.
According to the Institute of National Remembrance, the work revealed signs of burial sites. Exhumation studies are necessary to determine the number of people whose remains are present at these burial sites, as well as to establish the circumstances of their deaths.
The search operations also uncovered the remains of structures, including what are believed to be the remains of a glass workshop, a church, and a school.
The Institute of National Remembrance of Poland stated that a total of over 4,000 square meters of the former village’s territory had been surveyed, and human remains were discovered at 25 sites covering an area of over 200 square meters.
They added that the initial stage of the investigation does not allow for an accurate assessment of the number of victims buried at the identified sites, “however, the scale and extent of the area confirm the mass nature of the grave, which may contain as many as several hundred people.” “The findings constitute material evidence of a crime committed against the Polish population in Huta Paniańska,” the Polish institution stated.
Source: UIPN
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