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Archival collection "Polish Underground 1939-1941"

Archival collection "Polish Underground 1939-1941"

1991, 26 min

1999, National Television Company of Ukraine. The cultural and historical series "The Last Address" is dedicated to the release of the archival collection "Polish Underground 1939-1941" from the series "Unknown Documents".

On the video: intros, stand-up by Doctor of Historical Sciences and host Yuriy Shapoval, interview with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland Dmytro Pavlychko about how the publication of this great work will help relations between Ukraine and Poland; book presentation; interview with Deputy Head of the SBU Volodymyr Prystaiko, director of the Warsaw publishing house "Rhythm" Tadeusz Katarsky, director of the Central Archive Oleksandr Pshennikov; documents, archival files, photos and other documents from the book; Old Town in Warsaw; participants of the presentation sing the Ukrainian song "Oh, whose horse is standing...".

Author: Yuriy Shapoval.

Reference: publishing series "Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s–1940s. Unknown documents of special services", containing archival materials about the Polish underground, Operation Vistula, the Holodomor, the Great Terror, the resettlement of Poles and Ukrainians in 1944–1946, and other events. The series is the largest archival and documentary project in the post-Soviet space and includes 8 bilingual volumes, which include over 1,200 documents from Ukrainian and Polish archives. The project is being implemented in cooperation with Polish institutions and was launched in 1996.