Commemoration of the anniversary of the murder of Lviv professors
Employees of the Faculty of Civil Engineering honoured the memory of professors of Lviv, who were murdered by the German occupant on July the 4th, 1941 in the Wulecki Hills in Lviv. Representatives of the Silesian University of Technology also took part in celebrations commemorating the 84th anniversary of this event in Lviv.
July the 4th, 2025 is another anniversary of one of the most tragic and symbolic crimes committed by the Germans on the Polish intelligentsia – the murder of Lviv professors. On the night of July 3rd -4th, 1941, in the Wulecki Heights (now Ukraine), German gendarmes and Einsatzgruppen officers murdered 25 prominent representatives of the Polish academic community — professors, doctors, lecturers — as well as members of their families.
Among them were the Vice-Rector of the Lviv Polytechnic, Antoni Łomnicki, writer and translator Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Rector of the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, Roman Longchamp de Berie.
The ceremony commemorating this event at the Faculty of Civil Engineering was conducted by Dr Eng. Andrzej Mokrosz, Chairman of the Association of Alumni of the Silesian University of Technology at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. The event was attended by the Vice-Rector for General Affairs, Prof. Dr Hab. Eng. Bożena Skołud, the Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering Prof. Dr Hab. Eng. Barbara Klemczak, members of the Association of Alumni of the Silesian University of Technology. professors and employees of the Faculty of Civil Engineering.
The commemoration ceremony also took place on July 4th in Lviv in the Wulecki Hills. Representatives of the Ukrainian and Polish academic community, leaders of Lviv and the region, diplomats, clergy, society, and students took part in the ceremony. Flowers at the monument were also placed by representatives of the Silesian University of Technology.
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