The account below certainly agrees with what my
uncles have told me (they were in Stolpin, near Lwow).?The incorrect
information should be deleted from the web site.
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Thank you for this description of the events in
Stryj. It is not only factual but colours the picture so that we can imagine
what it was like there in 1939 etc.
?
Dianne
Hitchin, Herts
England
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Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:50
AM
Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] Mis-information
on A Forgotten Odyssey site
On A Forgotten Odyssey site there is a Link to Kresy (item
4) from
the Newspaper-The Holocaust, what appears to be a copy of an
article
in the "Daily Colonist" of Victoria, Canada, titled "Murderous
Bands
of Ukrainian Terrorists Slay Polish Refugees", dated
Sept.21,1939.
? In the last paragraph it states "The Ukrainians took
possesion of
Lwow,Stryj and Stanislawow,reports reaching the frontier
said, and
for a time set up? their own government."
I was born and
lived my first 20 years in Stryj, and was there during
September 1939. On
September 6th Germans bombed our railway station,
bridge and marketplace.
On the 8th they bombed the same targets and
houses along my street. On the
10th, a mass of disorganised Polish
soldiers streamed through Stryj,most
on foot, some in army horse
drawn carts, some in peasants carts and some
on bicycles.Most of them
were armed and there were no officers visible.On
Sept.12th German
motorized infantry arrived and occupied Stryj and the two
army
barracks without a shot being fired.The Germans occupied Stryj until
Sept.19th when the Soviet Red Army replaced them.
Ukrainians never took
possesion of Stryj or set up their own
government.
In my opinion, it
is a gross mis-information and should not be
disseminated on A Forgotten
Odyssey.
As far as Lwow is concerned ,Germans surrounded it on Sept.12th.
Polish Army under the command of Gen.W. Langner defended Lwow until
Sept.19th when Soviet Army replaced German Army.On Sept.23rd Gen.
Langner surrendered the city of Lwow to the Soviet Marshal
Timoshenko.
I have never heard that Ukrainians took possesion of
Lwow.
The only unpleasant incident occurred on Sept. 11th in the village of
Duliby, 4 km. south of Stryj where some soldiers got into argument
with the villagers over a stolen pig, and the soldiers tossed
grenades
into some houses and shot at the escaping peasants.
This is what I have
observed and remember.
R. Skulski
