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Jakub Majmurek wrote that Volhynia has met his high expectations and is one of the best movie describing the history of the "bleeding lands". The author also believes that the director of the movie, Smarzowski, presented the relations between Poles and Ukrainians honestly, and the notion of the movie is a warning against any form of radicalism ...
In August 1943, the Polish village of Gaj, near Kovel, was burned and some 600 people were massacred, and 438 people were killed, including 246 children, in Ostrówki. In July 1943, a total of 520 Polish villages were attacked, killing 10,000–11,000 Poles. At the same time, the killings in the eastern part of the county continued. [104]
With the 60th anniversary of the Volyn tragedy in 2003, a third era in the study of Ukrainian–Polish conflict started. In 2002 Grzegorz Motyka, finding all the previous concepts regarding the anti-Polish actions of the UPA inadequate, [ 35 ] suggested viewing the Ukrainian–Polish relations from the point of view of the question of Ukrainian ...
Below is the list of selected locations of the OUN-UPA mass killing raids targeting Polish Catholics, with the confirmed number of victims from July 11, 1943 exceeding one dozen men, women and children, according to compendium of Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia compiled by Władysław Siemaszko and Ewa Siemaszko.
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia (1943−1944) — in the Volhynia Region of eastern Poland and present-day western Ukraine, carried out by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Continued: Category:Massacres of Poles in Eastern Galicia (1943−1944)
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called Watch on the Rhine "a distinguished film — a film full of sense, power and beauty" and added, "Its sense resides firmly in its facing one of civilization's most tragic ironies, its power derives from the sureness with which it tells a mordant tale and its beauty lies in its disclosures of human ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Above Suspicion: Richard Thorpe: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt: Spy: MGM: Action in the North Atlantic: Lloyd Bacon, Raoul Walsh: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale Sr.
January 23 – The film Casablanca is released nationally in the United States and becomes one of the top-grossing pictures of 1943. It goes on to win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 16th Academy Awards. February 20 – American film studio executives agree to allow the United States Office of War Information to censor films. [8]