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Pieracki, Bronisław, b 28 May 1895 at Gorlice, d 15 June

1934 in Warsaw. Polish politician and government official.
One of the leading activists of the Sanacja regime, he
headed the Nonparty Bloc of Co-operation with the
Government. He supported ‘strong-arm’ tactics with respect
to national minorities and the introduction of the so-called
active policy with regard to the Ukrainians. In 1930 he
directed the Pacification in Lviv and then (as minister of the
interior) was responsible for similar actions in Lisko county
in 1931 and in Volhynia and Polisia in 1932. In 1931 he
made some concessions in economics and education to the
Ukrainian minority. In June of that year he held several
meetings with Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance
leaders and Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky. He was
assassinated by H. Matseiko, an Organization of Ukrainian
Nationalists follower. The assassination was used by the Polish government to justify the
creation of a concentration camp for political prisoners at Bereza Kartuzka. The organizers of
the assassination, with the exception of Matseiko, who managed to escape, were tried from
September 1935 to January 1936 at the so-called Warsaw OUN Trial. A study of the trial by
Zynovii Knysh appeared in Toronto (2 vols, 1986).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]

List of related links from Encyclopedia of Ukraine pointing to Pieracki, Bronisław entry:

1 Bandera, Stepan
2 Galicia
3 Kosach, Yurii
4 Lebed, Mykola

5 Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

6 Pacification
7 Pieracki, Bronislaw
8 Rozbudova natsiï

9 Shukhevych, Roman
10 Zarytska, Kateryna

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