And so it goes....

Do children need to know everything about their parents...
do parents really know their children?
do we really know the people we live with......
their thoughts.....
I'm struggling to find balance in my thoughts., and
of the horror Olga has told me of ......helpless, watching her family die

Until I'm able to write what she told me...... I thought
I would leave you with this information I found in my research...

Approximately 366 Ukrainian and a few Polish inhabitants of Pawlokoma were murdered, by a former Armia Krajowa
or AK functioned as the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II in Nazi Germany-History of Poland , which was active in all areas of the country from September 1939 until its disbanding in January 1945....
unit, commanded by Józef Biss "Waclaw" aided by Polish self-defence groups from nearby villages.

The victims were herded into a local church, interrogated (some were tortured) and then taken to a local cemetery where they were executed. Only women with small children (below 10 years old) survived. Already during the execution the Ukrainian property was robbed by Poles from the neighbourhood villages. Women and children were ordered to leave in the direction of Sanok


The massacre believed to be an act of retaliation for earlier alleged murders by Ukrainian Insurgent Army

of 9 (or 11) Poles in Pawlokoma and unspecified number of Poles killed by UPA in neighbouring villages.

Pawlokoma massacre is one of the best known, but not the sole example of Ukrainian civilians being murdered by different Polish groups in February-April 1945. Similar massacres followed soon in other nearby villages, including Lubna, Malkowice and Piskorowice.

Controversy

While various sources differ on specific issues like the number of the victims or the details of the massacre, all agree that the Ukrainian villagers were murdered by Poles and that a former Armia Krajowa unit either participated directly or assisted in the killings. The Pawlokoma memorial places the number of victims at 365, the figure supported by IPN and a number of Polish historians .......

What were the survivors; my family, my mother what were their thoughts........
Olga said when I asked the question ...
she thought she was going to die.....