On April 28, 2017 is the 70^th anniversary of carrying out by the communist authorities of PRL operation „Wisła”, as a result of which approx. 150 thousand Polish citizens of Ukrainian nationality residing in the southern and eastern regions of Poland were victims of mass displacement and collective repressions. The goal of the operation was the final solution of the Ukrainian issue in Poland by imprisonment of representatives of Ukrainian intelligentsia in the labor camp in Jaworzno, dispersion of population in the western and northern parts of Poland, ban on cultivating any forms of social life in its national Ukrainian tradition, destruction of the Ukrainian cultural heritage and elimination of the Greek-Catholic Church  from the life of community as the institution strengthening spiritual life and identity.

We ask all persons and environments of good will in Poland to support the Union of Ukrainians in Poland in organization of the dignified social commemoration of this tragic – for both, Ukrainians and Poles – anniversary.