Ternopil region takes part in the exhibition "the Lost world" to the 70th anniversary of operation "Visla"

the National history Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, present the exhibition "the Lost world" timed to the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Ukrainians within the framework of "operation Vistula". The presentation is attended by the representatives of the government, the leaders of the Ukrainian Institute of national memory, the Ternopil regional state administration and the National Museum of history of Ukraine. The exhibition "the Lost world" is a joint project of the Ukrainian Institute of national memory, the National history Museum of Ukraine and Ternopil regional state administration. The exposition consisted of exhibits of the Ternopil regional Museum, regional art Museum, regional Museum complex "Lemkowska village" and the Ternopil regional organization of Ukrainian society "lemkivschyna". "After the operation "wis?a" in 1947, the world is scattered about half a million Lemkos. Now for the region annually attracts the Lemkos from Canada, USA, Poland, France, Belarus, Moldova... most of all, however, from the Ternopil region, which is why monastyrys'kyi district believe Lemko capital. Come for the traditional festival "Bells of Lemko". So for us it is very important that the exhibition presents historic pieces of clothing, pysanky, wooden sculptures, reproductions, wooden churches of the Lemko and other exhibits representing the unique culture of the Ukrainians who became victims of the action "Vistula", – said during the opening of the exhibition in Kyiv, Deputy Chairman of the Ternopil regional state administration Yuriy Eureka. Recall that the operation "Vistula" (28 April – 29 July 1947) is a military-political operation of the Polish Communist government, became a tool of ethnic cleansing and consisted in the deportation of the population from South-Eastern regions of Poland (the Lemko land, Kholmshchyna Nadsyannya and Podlasie) to its North-Western lands. This was reported in the Ternopil regional state administration

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Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/

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