In connection with the ceremony of commemorating the victims of the Katyn Massacre with the participation of Her Excellency, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and the IPN President Karol Nawrocki, Ph.D. at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw on 11 April 2024, and the 84th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre, IPNtv presents a spot entitled "The Katyn Massacre. An unpunished Soviet crime", prepared by the IPN's International Cooperation Office.
Professor Janusz Kurtyka died tragically on 10 April 2010 in a crash of the Presidential plane in Smolensk, on his way to a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre.
Katyń is a symbol of the criminal policy of the Soviet system against the Polish nation. The present study aims to demonstrate the basic facts of Katyn massacre – the execution of almost 22,000 people: Polish prisoners of war in Katyn, Kharkov, Kalinin (Tver) and also other Polish prisoners (soldiers and civilians), which took place in the spring of 1940 in different places of the Soviet Ukraine and Belarus republics based on the decision of the Soviet authorities.
The Soviet propaganda imposed on us an image of communist Russia liberating Europe from German Nazism. In reality, half of our continent was dominated by the Soviet Union for the next 45 years. Monuments erected to Red Army soldiers fallen on Polish territory were, in fact, just objects promoting communism. For the sake of historical truth and respect for the Victims it is high time we cleared public space of the remnants of communist propaganda!
We would like to present a text authored by Dr Witold Wasilewski, a historian of the Institute of National Remembrance, in which he discusses the Soviet falsification and concealment of the truth about the Katyń Massacre for almost half a century.
IPN's educational series of short films entitled "Not Only the Ulmas" presents well-researched examples of Poles who saved Jews under German occupation during World War II. Each episode is focusing on a separate person, and most often a family or several families, whose members risked, and most often lost, their lives trying to protect their Jewish fellow citizens. The series was created by the IPN Spokesperson's Office in cooperation with researchers at the IPN’s Historical Research Office and IPN's Office of International Relations
International Conference Need to Know XIII and the 2024 IIHA Annual Conference: Intelligence in Central and Eastern Europe (Intermarium) and the Soviet (Russian) Factor, 14-16 October 2024, Warsaw
We encourage you to read some educational materials on the subject.
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