Roman Aftanazy
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Włodzimierz Roman Aftanaziw, known as Roman Aftanazy was a Polish historian, librarian and writer. He is the author of a monumental work of reference, Dzieje rezydencji na dawnych kresach Rzeczypospol
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Memorial plaque to Roman Aftanazy
Marble Palace at Morszyn Spa
Illustration from Aftanazy's "History", Siomkaŭ Sałamiarecki, Chmara, c. 1914
Kresy
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Eastern Borderlands, often simply Borderlands was a historical region of the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. The term was coined during the interwar period. Largely agricultural and extens
Roman Aftanazy
…Eastern Borderlands, (1991–1997), listing and describing the cultural heritage contained in the myriad estates and grand residences in the once Polish Kresy and Inflanty regions. Roman Aftanazy was born on 2 April 1914 in Morszyn, Lwów Oblast, into the family of Jan, a railway official and his wife Olimpia…
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