A reader despatched this in with out a remark. This was a slightly well-known crime in Poland that some used and blamed the Ukrainians after they had nothing to do with it. This was a 1923 crime in Poland through the financial disaster that engulfed the entire area with hyperinflation, which stemmed additionally from Germany. Unemployment was huge and the economic system was in shambled. There was a band of “Roma” gypsies who have been stealing meals and animals in villages throughout Poland. Marianna Dolinska was 32 on the time with 4 youngsters. In December 1923, her husband was arrested, leaving Marianna and her 4 youngsters with no assist. This was the interval when many peasants’ youngsters died of hunger. Marianna was distraught and assumed that she and her youngsters would die of hunger. On December eleventh, 1923, Marianna hung all 4 of her youngsters with the identical rope by tying it across the base of a tree trunk within the woods close to Antoniowka. The following day, Marianna went to the police station in Kozlow, confessed to the homicide of her youngsters, and led investigators again to the tree the place their our bodies have been hanging.
A police photographer took the picture you see right here. The case grew to become probably the most high-profile legal circumstances within the Second Polish Republic. Nevertheless, this picture was used on the duvet of a e-book containing pictures depicting crimes by the Ukranian Rebel Military (UPA) entitled Ludobojstwo UPA na Ludnosci Polskiej (which interprets: Genocide In opposition to the Polish Inhabitants by UPA). This was from 1923 – not 1943. It didn’t mirror the Bloodbath of Poles in Volhynia, which started in March of 1943 and resulted in 1944. The estimated civilians that have been ethnically cleansed by the Ukraians was between 35,000 and 60,000 Polish folks. The bulk have been girls and kids.
This picture was misused for it didn’t mirror the crimes of the Ukrainians and the UPA’s Bloodbath of Poles in Volhynia,
which was so horrible it even shocked the Germans.
