Sprawozdanie wojewody wołyńskiego o stanie bezpieczeństwa województwa w przededniu kampanii polskiej 1939 roku

Abstrakt

Sources, related with this topic, are stored in Polish and foreign archives, mainly in Ukrainian – National Archives of Volhynia District in Luck. Volhynia voivodeship amounted to 35,7 thousand sq meters, the voivodeship formed 11 countries, 22 towns and 103 rural municipalities. According to the data in the census from 1931, population accounted to 2 085,6 thousands, of which 252,5 thousands lived in the towns, and 1 833, 1 in the rural areas. Province was inhabited mainly by Ukrainian citizens – 1 426,9 thousand (68,4%) declared Ukrainian language, 346,6 thousand (16,6%) Polish language, and 205,5 thousand (9,9%) Yiddish and Hebrew. There were complicated relationship between Voivodship’s inhabitants (mainly Ukrainians) and Polish authorities. The attitudes of Province’s society towards Polish authorities were differentiated. The record contains numerous examples of different residents attitudes towards Polish authorities in July 1939. First part contains mainly the voivodship governor’s synthetic evaluation of Volhynia voivodeship’s security as “certain [its] improving”, which extensively justifies.