"Operation Vistula: 70 years later" - under this slogan in Peremyshl this year will honor the memory of 140 thousand Ukrainians deported from the territory of south-eastern Poland in 1947.

This is written by Gazeta Wyborcza, adding that traditionally events dedicated to those events are financially supported by the Polish Ministry of Interior and Management. But this year the department refused to allocate funds.

Therefore, a committee for organizing commemoration was formed, which included the historian and public diner Danuta Kuron, scriptwriter and film director Kristina Zahvatovich-Vaida, ombudsman Adam Bodnara, father Tomash Dostatny, former deputy and philologist of Ukrainian origin Vladimir Mokryi, Polish actor Andrzej Severin and writer Andrzej Stasyuk. They announced a fund-raising for the memory of the victims of Operation Wisla,. Thus, they managed to collect 97 thousand zlotys. These funds in Przemysl will include panel discussions, film screenings, concerts in honor of the victims of deportation. Participation in celebrations promised to take the vice-speaker of the Seim Bogdan Borushevich.

Honoring the memory of victims of the operation "Vistula" will begin tonight.

In the "People's House" of Peremyshl, an annual appeal will be signed on behalf of the representatives of the anti-communist opposition, the clergy and academic circles. On Saturday, a meeting with the writer Andrzej Stasiuk, and on Sunday - "III Congress of Ukrainians in Poland". For this day, also various theatrical performances are planned.

The organizers urge everyone who comes to the solemn events to bring one thing that he would take with him if he had to leave his house. Those who in the past did turn out to be in such a situation will tell about their experience.