the struggle for Ukrainian independence. The OUN-UPA formations used to treat people saving Poles as traitors. Many ethnic Ukrainians paid for such "betrayal" with their lives in World War II. As a result, Poles in Poland who wish to thank those righteous today, try to avoid listing their names on inscriptions and on monuments in fear of reprisal. The date of July 11 has a symbolic meaning in the history of Polish genocide in Volhynia. On that Sunday, the OUN-UPA death squads aided by local peasants simultaneously attacked over 100 Polish settlements within the Wołyń Voivodeship. It was a well-orchestrated attack on people gathered for a Sunday mass at Catholic churches. The towns affected included Kisielin, Poryck, Chrynów, Zabłoćce, Krymn, with dozens of other towns attacked at different dates with tens of churches and chapels burned to the ground. The Volhynian massacres spread over four prewar voivodeships including Wołyń with 60,000 victims, as well as Lwów, Stanisławów and Tarnopol in Little Poland with 70,000 Poles murdered for the total of 130,000 Polish victims of UPA terror. Wiktor Poliszczuk estimates that 36 thousand Ukrainians died at their hands as well. In 2003, the Presidents of Poland and Ukraine, Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Leonid Kuchma, paid homage to the victims of ethnic cleansing when they met in Poryck (now Pawliwka). In 2006, Presidents Lech Kaczyński and Viktor Yushchenko met again, to encourage historical reconciliation between the two nations. See also Historiography of the Massacre of Poles in Volhynia Janowa Dolina: Destruction of a Polish settlement Polish defence of eradicated town of Przebraże August 30, 1943 UPA massacre in Ostrówki (including 246 children) References External links Było sobie miasteczko... at Filmpolski.pl 2000s Polish-language films Massacres of Poles in Volhynia Documentary films about war crimes Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) Reichskommissariat Ukraine Polish independent films Polish documentary films World War II crimes in Poland 2009 documentary films Documentary films about Poland Documentary films about Ukraine 2009 films 2009 independent films