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    Published : 2022-06-30
    Vol. 15 No. 1 (2022)

    Ukrainian People in Piotrków Trybunalski in the Interwar Period (1920-1939)

    Daniel Warzocha

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3853-8303

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.56583/fs.1996

    Abstract

    There were already a few Ukrainians in Piotrków Trybunalski during the tsarist reign. Most often, they were soldiers of the Russian army. Refugees from Ukraine also appeared in Piotrków during World War I, and a large group arrived there after 1920. The troops of the Ukrainian People’s Republic fought alongside the Polish army against Soviet Russia. However, the Ukrainians did not manage to create an independent state, and the Ukrainian army was interned in Poland. Internment camp No. 11 was located in Piotrków, in the barracks of the Polish army. Established between December 1920 and January 1921, it was dissolved in November 1921. It was the smallest of such camps in Poland: there were between 372 and 576 soldiers and their family members there. Compared to other similar establishments, the internment camp in Piotrków stood out in terms of its good-quality housing. It was in fact a place of permanent residence rather than isolation. During the day, the Ukrainian soldiers were able to leave the camp and move freely around the city and its surroundings. They could also take up paid jobs. In addition, the internees could conduct educational, cultural, religious, sports, and publishing activities, as well as run craft workshops. There was also a cultural-educational club and a school for the illiterate internees. In the camp foreign language courses and classes in the history of Ukrainian writing were organized as well. There was also a choir, and several magazines were published. Finally, some of the young people were members of the Union of Interned Ukrainian Students. However, there was no chapel, and the internees used the Orthodox Church in Piotrków. After the camp was dissolved, some of the soldiers remained in Piotrków. Approximately, 140-170 of them lived in the city at various times. The best educated Ukrainians worked as clerks and others worked in factories and on farms. Some of them married Polish women, and their descendants have lived in Piotrków to this day.

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    Ukrainians, soldiers, Ukrainian People’s Republic, Piotrków Trybunalski



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    Warzocha, D. (2022). Ukrainian People in Piotrków Trybunalski in the Interwar Period (1920-1939). Facta Simonidis, 15(1), 43–74. https://doi.org/10.56583/fs.1996

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