On July 11, on the 80th anniversary of the Volhynia massacre, Bolesławiec Mayor Piotr Roman and City Council Chairman Józef Podkładek took part in a ceremony commemorating the victims of Ukrainian nationalists.
Bolesławiec Municipality:
On the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, scouts, representatives of NSZZ Solidarność, political parties and associations paid tribute to the murdered Poles at the Siberians Monument in Bolesławiec.
The local government adds:
On July 11, 1943, during what is known as Bloody Sunday, over the course of two days, detachments of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and formations affiliated with it attacked approximately 100 settlements and murdered, according to various estimates, 10,000–11,000 Poles. The anti-Polish campaign was subsequently moved to the western edge of Volhynia, where several thousand more people were murdered in August.
To commemorate Bloody Sunday in 1943, which marked the culmination of the dramatic events in Volhynia, the Sejm established July 11 as the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists against citizens of the Second Polish Republic.