Daily History - by Craig Hill

After World War II the government of the Soviet Union, which now controlled the city, tried to erase the Polish history of the city of Lwów. Because of that the crimes committed by the Germans and Ukrainians east of the so-called Curzon line were not prosecuted by the Polish courts and the information on Polish universities in Lwów was censored. However, in 1960 Dr. Helena Krukowska, the widow of Prof. Dr. Włodzimierz Krukowski, managed to appeal to the court in Hamburg. After five years the German court closed the judicial proceeding. Public prosecutor von Beelow argued that the people responsible for the crime were already dead. However, this was not true since at the same time SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Krüger, commander of the Gestapo unit supervising the massacres in Lwów in 1941, was being held in Hamburg prison (he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the mass murder of Jews and Poles in Stanisławów, committed several weeks after his unit was transferred from Lvov). No person was ever held responsible for the massacre.

In the 1970s Abrahamowicz Street in Lviv was renamed Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński Street. However, the pleas of various Polish organisations to commemorate the victims of the massacre with a monument or a symbolic grave in Lvov have been rejected ever since. The case of the murder of the professors is currently under investigation by the Institute of National Remembrance.