Polish crimes

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2. Lutisk and Sarny my sources tells about severe jails. And He told us of concentration camps for Ukrainian Nationalists

There were, they were ex austrian prisoner of war camps for ukrainians left over from WWI in Dąbie, Łańcut, Pikulice, and Strzałków.

Many poles interned ukrainian activists in detention camps during the 1918 -1920 polish ukrainian war as well (Grünberg, Sprengel, p. 260)

From 1934-39 Poland established a camp for the internment of political opponents, Ukrainian nationalists and Communists in Bereza Kartuzka
(now in Belarus).

• Bereza Kartuska Detention Camp

The conditions were pretty harsh.
Ukrainians were murdered or tortured to death during questioning, or died from disease, while escaping, or disappeared without trace. Most were OUN members

OUN members who were incarcerated at Bereza Kartuska have testified to the use there of torture. There were frequent beatings (with boards being placed against inmates' backs and struck with hammers), forced labor, constant harassment, the use of solitary confinement without provocation, punishment for inmates' use of the Ukrainian language, etc

Yurij Luhovy, a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, has completed a documentary film about the prison, based on authentic photographs, documents, archival footage and eyewitness testimony from survivors. His father was a 1938 inmate.

Although there were more groups the majority of the camp was Ukrianian nationalists, hardly any appeals were made. Supposedly it was three months but many prisoners had there appeals extended extended and extended.

16,000 persons passed through Bereza Kartuska over the period of its operation

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The Bereza Kartuska prison or detention camp (Polish: Miejsce Odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej, "Place of Isolation at Bereza Kartuska") was a Polish prison for political prisoners that was operated in 1934-39 at Bereza Kartuska in the former Polesie Voivodeship (today in Belarus, near the city of Brest). Some 16,000 persons passed through Bereza Kartuska over the period of its operation. These included members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Polish Communist Party (KPP) and National Radical Camp (ONR), as well as members of the Peasant Party (SL) and Polish Socialist Party (PPS). Detainees included Bolesław Piasecki and, for some dozen days, the journalist Stanisław Mackiewicz (the latter, paradoxically, a warm supporter of the prison's establishment).



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