Volhynian

“The recipe for the chicken,” Mrs. A. M. Aksoy of Sewickley, Pa., wrote, “brings to mind a Volhynian stuffing I learned to make before World War II while a student at the University of Krakow in Poland, and which I have encountered nowhere else. […] I should like to pass on to you for your consideration chicken stuffed Volhynian style.”

Most Volhynian Jews did not die in the extermination camps of Poland. Most were taken from their towns, their streets, their homes, killed in daylight and in darkness, within earshot and, sometimes, within eyesight of their neighbors and friends.

Standing next to Zelenskyy, Tusk said the two sides are 'finding a common language and methods of action on the issue of the Volhynian crime and sensitive issues of our history.'

The population here was different from that of central Poland where I had grown up. Although there were some Poles, two thirds of the Volhynians were ethnic Ukrainians.

On 28 October, Eichmann noted that on the basis of available transport trains, only 11,000 more Poles could be evacuated within the framework of the 2.Nahplan, meaning that the resettlement of most of the remaining Volhynians would have to be postponed further still.

Oleksyuk reveals that when talking to his fellow Volhynians, he would often hear that prior to 1943–44 Ukrainians and Poles had coexisted happily.