The Katyn Memorial at Gunnersbury Cemetery, Chiswick, England

Pictures and text kindly sent to me by Andrzej Kuras from London


The wording on the memorial is:
The conscience of the world calls for the truth (from the Polish)
In rememberance of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war who disappeared in 1940 from camps at Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostaszkow of whom 4,500 were later identified in mass graves at Katyn near Smolensk.

The wording on the plaques is:
This casket contains soil from their grave.
Murdered by the Soviet secret police on Stalin's orders 1940. The soil hereunder came from their graveyard 1990.
As finally admitted in April 1990, by the USSR after 50 years shameful denial of the truth.

Artykuły o zbrodni Katyńskiej w tej witrynie (po polsku i angielsku).
Articles on this site about the Katyn Forest Massacre [in English and Polish].
"Doing justice to the dead."
"Sprawiedliwo¶ć dla zmarłych."
"Lost Souls."
"Zagubione dusze."
"Separate memories, separate sorrows."
"Odrębne wspomnienia. Odrębne smutki."
"The Soviet memory hole."
"Podróż w Sowieck± Dziurę w Pamięci."

"KATYŃ. MODUS OPERANDI"
Michał Synoradzki, Jacek Grodecki, Victoria Plewak. [po polsku]"

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Stalin's order to shoot the Poles.
A map of the Katyn massacre site.
Katyn related books and videos.
Information about the photos used in this site.
Katyn photos which people have sent me.
1943 Nazi photos of exhumations in Katyn Forest. 		Polish language Katyn Forest Massacre lesson from the Association of Polish Teachers Abroad.
The Anglo-Polish agreement of 25 August 1939.
Early German/Soviet co-operation: the Treaty of Rapallo.
The rebellion of Russian troops at Courtine in 1917.
Second Lieutenant Janina Dowbor Musnicki Lewandowska, the Polish woman pilot murdered at Katyn by the Soviets.
A copy of the "legalistic" pretext Tito's "communists" used to murder Professor Doctor Ljudevit Jurak, on 10 June 1945.