St. Volodymyr Institute
UCRDC – 2nd Floor
620 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Sunday, 2 November 2025 at 3:00 pm
Speakers will include: Peter J. Potichnyj, Peter J. Yakob, Frank E. Sysyn, Roman Senkus, Ksenya Kiebuzinski.
The village of Pavlokoma (Polish name: Pawłokoma) is widely known as the site of a massacre of its native Ukrainian population by the Polish Home Army in March 1945. But its history, like that of the other formerly Ukrainian villages in contemporary Poland’s San/Sian region, stretches back centuries. During Communist Poland’s “Operation Vistula” of 1947, nearly 150,000 of the region’s indigenous Ukrainian inhabitants were forcibly deported and resettled in Poland’s western and northern territories or in Soviet Ukraine. In May 2006, as part of a process of reconciliation between Ukrainians and Poles, President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine and President Lech Kaczyński of Poland unveiled a monument to the victims of the Pavlokoma massacre. Professor Peter Potichnyj, who was born in Pavlokoma, and Peter Yakob, a descendant of immigrants to America from Pavlokoma, have assembled a massive body of centuries-old records about the village’s inhabitants. Their monograph and its accompanying tables will be of interest to scholars and students of the region as well as to persons pursuing genealogical research.
Published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press on the website of Ukraina Moderna
https://uamoderna.com/biblioteka/the-ukrainian-village-of-pavlokoma-a-demographic-study-book/
This event is also intended as a tribute to the long and illustrious career of Professor Peter Potichnyj, who has contributed so much to the study of the Zakerzonia region in general and to the examination of modern Ukrainian history.
