The picture is of the original church steeple...the cows are keeping it safe..I took this picture on a wonderful trip last June 2008 with Henry and Mom...
I thought....where does one begin a story, how far back should one go to find the source of the pain.........should it start on this day.....
March 3, 1945
"A detachment of 60 men in Red Army uniforms marched into the village of Pavlokoma, a village on a bend in the San River near the town of Dyniv in the Lemko region, and exacted its measure of revenge against a purported haven for the Ukrainian Insurgent Army:
383 human beings were annihilated.
Since some of the victims cried out, recognizing their neighbors among the murderers, it has since been determined that it was an act of blind hatred committed by acquaintances, former friends, members of families, Ukrainians and Poles inextricably intertwined."
I thought..... should it go further back.....why did they do what they did....was the pain deeper still.....
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Sources: Ms. Stefaniuk; Andriy Mudryk, "Trahediya sela Pavlokomy" (Toronto: Krayeva Uprava Obyednannia Lemkiv Kanady, 1974).
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