Volhynian

• Volynian

From Volhynia +‎ -n.

Volhynian (comparative more Volhynian, superlative most Volhynian)

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Volhynia.
   • 1975 September 29, Craig Claiborne, “De Gustibus”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 June 2025:

     “The recipe for the chicken,” Mrs. A. M. Aksoy of Sewickley, Pa., wrote, “brings to mind a Volhynian stuffing I learned to make before World War II while a student at the University of Krakow in Poland, and which I have encountered nowhere else. […] I should like to pass on to you for your consideration chicken stuffed Volhynian style.”

   • 2009 March 15, Steve Luxenberg, “The Interpreter”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 June 2025:

     Most Volhynian Jews did not die in the extermination camps of Poland. Most were taken from their towns, their streets, their homes, killed in daylight and in darkness, within earshot and, sometimes, within eyesight of their neighbors and friends.

   • 2025 January 15, James Reynolds, “Russia 'has been planning acts of air terror against airlines all over the world', Polish leader warns amid growing fears Putin is plotting an atrocity in the West”, in Daily Mail‎^[3], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 January 2025:

     Standing next to Zelenskyy, Tusk said the two sides are 'finding a common language and methods of action on the issue of the Volhynian crime and sensitive issues of our history.'

Volhynian (plural Volhynians)

1. (historical) One of a tribe or tribal union of Vlachs.
2. A native or inhabitant of Volhynia.
   • 2004, Joseph Pell, Fred Rosenbaum, “Life under Stalin”, in Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California, Berkeley, Calif.: Western Jewish History Center of the Judah L. Magnes Museum; RDR Books, →ISBN, page 41:

     The population here was different from that of central Poland where I had grown up. Although there were some Poles, two thirds of the Volhynians were ethnic Ukrainians.

   • 2007 March 7, Phillip T. Rutherford, “The 2.Nahplan”, in Prelude to the Final Solution: The Nazi Program for Deporting Ethnic Poles, 1939–1941 (Modern War Studies), Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 164:

     On 28 October, Eichmann noted that on the basis of available transport trains, only 11,000 more Poles could be evacuated within the framework of the 2.Nahplan, meaning that the resettlement of most of the remaining Volhynians would have to be postponed further still.

   • 2007 August 10, David R[oger] Marples, “The Ukrainian–Polish Conflict”, in Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine, Budapest; New York, N.Y.: Central European University Press, →ISBN, page 227:

     Oleksyuk reveals that when talking to his fellow Volhynians, he would often hear that prior to 1943–44 Ukrainians and Poles had coexisted happily.