Director of the Searches bureau of the Polish National Memory Institute Krzysztof Schwagrzyk said Poland expects to get Ukraine’s permission to create new cemeteries for reburied Poles.
On September 27, Ukraine granted Poland formal permission to conduct search and exhumation works.
Krzysztof Schwagrzyk said that Polish side is applying to the relevant Ukrainian institutions for obtaining permission to conduct search operations, European Truth reports.
Poland is applying for permission to open work in several dozen places in Volyn where the Poles who died or were killed during the Polish-Bolshevik war in 1939 and 1943-44 are buried.
“The volume of search work is huge. It is about “hundreds, and possibly thousands of places,” and this task should be addressed by a new institution, which should have the name “Institute of National Memory for Searching in Ukraine,” Shvagzhik said.
According to him, Poland will also receive consent from Ukraine to built cemeteries, where it will be possible to adequately bury the remains of Poles found.
As The Journalist reported, Ukraine, Poland to start joint activities on search and exhumation work.
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