Bereza Kartuzka

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Image - The Bereza Kartuzka concentration camp.

Bereza Kartuzka (now Biaroza). See Google Map. City (2025 pop 28,192) on the Yasolda River in northwest Polisia, a raion center in Brest oblast in Belarus located on the border between Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnic territory. In 1920–39 Bereza belonged to Poland, and between 1934 and 1939 it was the site of an infamous Polish concentration camp, in which hundreds of Ukrainian patriots were inmates, including political activists, civic leaders, and members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The camp commander was Col W. Biernacki-Kostek; his subordinates were B. Grefner and J. Kamalia. Personal accounts about the camp have been written by F. Malyk (1935), S. Haiuk (1955), Volodymyr Makar (1956), and Isydor Nahaievsky (1957). A documentary film about the camp, by Canadian director Yurij Luhovy was released in 2007.

[This article updated in 2025.]

List of related links from Encyclopedia of Ukraine pointing to Bereza Kartuzka entry:

1 Belarus 2 Borovets, Taras 3 Concentration camps 4 Galicia 5 History of Ukraine 6 Hrytsai, Dmytro 7 Kachmar, Vasyl 8 Karkhut, Vasyl 9 Liubarsky, Semen 10 Memoir literature 11 Normalization 12 Pieracki, Bronisław 13 Polisia 14 Political prisoners 15 Richynsky, Arsen 16 Rozenberg, Liudvyk 17 Sanacja regime 18 Shukhevych, Roman 19 Struk, Evstakhii 20 Yaniv, Volodymyr

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