Despite the quarantine and heavy rains, on July 3, 2019, in Lviv, near the memorial of famous Lviv professors shot by the German Nazists on the night of July 4, 1941 on the Vuletsky hills, a traditional commemorative meeting took place.
Every year on this day Lviv Polytechnicians together with representatives of other higher education institutions of our city recall tragic pages of common to both Ukraine and Poland history. Under the cover of the night, Nazists occupied Lviv, arresting and shooting nearly fifty Polish researchers and academics, as well as their families.
This year, for the first time in many years, because of quarantine restrictions, Polish representatives couldn’t come and pay tribute to the memory of innocent intellectuals murdered. On behalf of the Mayors of Wroclaw, Katowice, Gliwice, the City Council and deputies of Wroclaw, Rectors of the Universities of Wroclaw and Opole, Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, AGH University of Science and Technology, Vice-Rectors of Lviv Polytechnic came to the monument to commemorate the researchers and lay flowers to the monument.
The Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Lviv Eliza Dzwonkiewicz, Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi and representatives of Lviv universities also came to commemorate the murdered researchers.
Near the monument, which was erected in the form of stones, symbolizing the ten commandments of God, fifth of which – «You shall not kill!» – was broken, clergy conducted a memorial service.
