Szczepan Siekierka

Who is Szczepan Siekierka?

Szczepan Siekierka is a Polish writer, prolific essayist, and the President of the Polish Society for the Remembrance of the Victims of Crimes Committed by Ukrainian Nationalists SUOZUN, registered in 1992 and located at ul. Oławska 2 street in Wrocław, Poland. Siekierka is a frequent contributor to SUOZUN Society's own periodical Na Rubieży, established also in 1992. Siekierka was the initiator as well as the President of the Committee for the Building of Monument to Victims of the Volhynian Genocide, since October 1994, selected by a joint committee of several other organizations. He is the co-author of several monografies on the subject of massacres of Poles across the Kresy region in World War II, written in collaboration with other writers including Henryk Komański, former member of Polish self-defence from Wołyń Voivodeship. Szczepan Siekierka has defended Operation Vistula, the forced deportation of 130,000-140,000 ethnic Ukrainians from southeastern Poland.