Osadniks were veterans of the Polish Army and civilians who were given or sold state land in the Kresy territory ceded to Poland by Polish-Soviet Riga Peace Treaty of 1921. The Polish word was also a loanword that was used in the Soviet Union.
Polish military settler from Osada Krechowiecka in the Wołyń Voivodeship, 1928
Cover of a land allotment document from 1923; all together some 8000 people received land in the eastern Voivodeships of Poland
Osadnik's family from Osada Krechowiecka, 1931
Eastern Borderlands or simply Borderlands was a term coined for the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period (1918–1939). Largely agricultural and extensively multi-ethnic with a Polish minority, it amounted to nearly half of the territory of interwar Poland. Historically situated in the eastern Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, following the 18th-century foreign partitions it was divided between the Empires of Russia and Austria-Hungary, and ceded to Poland in 1921 after the Treaty of Riga. As a result of the post-World War II border changes, all of the territory was ceded to the USSR, and none of it is in modern Poland.
Leon Wyczółkowski "Ploughing in the Ukraine"
Members of the German Ordnungspolizei shooting naked women and children in the Mizoch Ghetto, October 1942
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia in 1943. Most Poles of Volhynia (now in Ukraine) had either been murdered or had fled the area.
the Skirmunt estate, Moładaŭ, by Napoleon Orda 1875
