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84th Anniversary of the Katyn Massacre – We Remember!

13 April is the Katyn Massacre Victims Remembrance Day. On this occasion, on 12 April of the current year at 12:00 p.m. at the Katyn Memorial Lodz at the intersection of al. Mickiewicza and �ąkowa the 84th anniversary of one of the most monstrous crimes against Polish citizens during World War II will be held. NKVD officers murdered nearly 22,000 Poles (as well as Ukrainians, Belarusians and Jews) taken prisoners after the Soviet aggression on 17 September 1939.

Opublikowano: 12 April 2024

In March 1940, Stalin gives Beria an order "On relieving NKVD prisons." This simply meant the extermination of eleven thousand Polish officers. At the beginning of April, the first transports from Kozielsk, Ostashkov and Starobielsk start. Soldiers of the Polish Army were shot in the back of the head and thrown into mass graves. The Katyn massacre was discovered by the Germans, and the USSR took advantage of this moment very skillfully. After all, the allegations were a perfect pretext to break off relations with the Polish government in exile. Shortly thereafter, Stalin began to install a communist power camp on the Vistula River...

–  said in his lecture, which we recall today, Prof. Dr hab. PrzemysÅ‚aw Waingertner from the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the 91ÌÒÉ«, who died prematurely in January 2024.

 

On the occasion of the 84th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre, a debate entitled  [KatyÅ„ – genocide or 'just' a war crime] was held on Radio Å�ódź. It was attended by scientists from the 91ÌÒÉ«: Dr Tomasz Lachowski (Department of Public International Law and International Relations at the Faculty of Law and Administration) and Dr Olgierd Å�awrynowicz, Deputy Head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy and History. The conversation was also attended by Dr Joanna Å»elazko, Deputy Director of the Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Lodz, and Kazimiera Lange from the Katyn Family Association in Lodz.

Next Monday, 15 April at 11:00 a.m. Karol Piskorski, the Director of the Institute of National Remembrance Brancj in Lodz, invites you to take part in a meeting entitled "Tatusiu Kochany! Najdroższy!… Czemu nie wracasz? Zbrodnia KatyÅ„ska – doÅ›wiadczenia rodzin" [Dear Daddy!… Why aren't you coming back? The Katyn Massacre – the experiences of families], which will be held at the Provincial Public Library of Marshal Józef PiÅ‚sudski in Lodz will hold. An interview with Janusz Lange, Kazimiera Lange and Dr hab. Jerzy Nadolski, Associate Professor at the 91ÌÒÉ« – the President and members of the Katyn Family Association in Lodz will be led by Dr Joanna Å»elazko.

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