Remembering Katyn

Author : Alexander Etkind,Rory Finnin,Uilleam Blacker,Julie Fedor,Simon Lewis,Maria Mälksoo,Matilda Mroz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745662961

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Remembering Katyn by Alexander Etkind,Rory Finnin,Uilleam Blacker,Julie Fedor,Simon Lewis,Maria Mälksoo,Matilda Mroz Pdf

Katyn– the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 – has come to be remembered as Stalin’s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Their remains lie buried in killing fields throughout Russia, Ukraine and, most likely, Belarus. Today their ghosts haunt the cultural landscape of Eastern Europe. This book traces the legacy of Katyn through the interconnected memory cultures of seven countries: Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic States. It explores the meaning of Katyn as site and symbol, event and idea, fact and crypt. It shows how Katyn both incites nationalist sentiments in Eastern Europe and fosters an emerging cosmopolitan memory of Soviet terror. It also examines the strange impact of the 2010 plane crash that claimed the lives of Poland’s leaders en route to Katyn. Drawing on novels and films, debates and controversies, this book makes the case for a transnational study of cultural memory and navigates a contested past in a region that will define Europe’s future.

Author : Teresa Kaczorowska
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786483761

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Children of the Katyn Massacre by Teresa Kaczorowska Pdf

World War II was—and remains—one of the bloodiest wars in history. Not only did millions of soldiers die in combat but millions of civilians lost their lives—some for no greater crime than their religious heritage or their nationality. The Soviets, at first allied with the Germans, incarcerated thousands of Polish military officers and reservists in the pre-established Soviet camps of Ostashkov, Starobelsk and Kozelsk. On March 5, 1940, Joseph Stalin and his lieutenants signed an execution order for 25,700 Polish prisoners of war. After months of hardship and interrogation, 14,700 prisoners from these camps were taken to remote areas, murdered with a shot to the back of the head and buried in mass graves. Later, when Germany turned its sights on the Soviet Union, the USSR allied itself with the West. With the discovery of the first of the mass burials by the Germans in the Katyn Forest (the area from which the entire massacre gets its name), the Soviets attempted to place the blame for the atrocities on the Germans in spite of a plethora of evidence to the contrary. Only in 1990, with the fall of communism, did President Mikhail Gorbachev admit Soviet responsibility for the Katyn murders. Compiled from a series of interviews, this emotionally moving account records the stories and fates of 18 men and women, 16 of whom lost their fathers in the Katyn massacre. The author traveled to Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Canada and the United States to talk extensively with the 18, recording their thoughts, feelings, memories and experiences of the hardships during and after the war. Photographs and maps are included.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940
ISBN : OSU:32435078695582

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The Katyn Forest Massacre by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre Pdf

Author : Victor Zaslavsky
Publisher : Telos Press, Limited
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132279444

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Class Cleansing by Victor Zaslavsky Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Katyn Forest Massacre, 1940
ISBN : IND:30000090953542

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The Katyn Forest Massacre by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre Pdf

Author : M.B. Szonert
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477155806

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Katyn: State-Sponsored Extermination by M.B. Szonert Pdf

KATYN: State-Sponsored Extermination is an insightful collection of essays and captivating historical photographs surrounding the mass murder of Polish officers and mass deportations of their families by the Soviet Union, a criminal act of historic proportions and enduring political implications. In March 1940 Joseph Stalin decided to exterminate 25,700 best sons of Poland based on the cold calculation that "death of one person amounts to a tragedy but death of millions amounts to mere statistics." We, the people, have the moral obligation to assure that the rational on which Joseph Stalin based his genocidal decision is wrong. This collection of essays is an attempt to draw public attention to the fact that the Katyn Crime has not been fully disclosed, adequately adjudicated, and properly condemned to this day. Accordingly, families of those who perished in the Katyn hecatomb are yet to find peace since the moral calculus that brings about closure has not been worked out with respect to the Katyn Crime.

Author : Jane Rogoyska
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786078933

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Surviving Katyn by Jane Rogoyska Pdf

WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE ‘A gripping reconstruction… utterly compelling reading.’ Adam Zamoyski ‘This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.’ Geoffrey Alderman, Times Higher Education The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses. Committed in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake – the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators – whose quest for the truth in the face of an inscrutable, unknowable, and utterly ruthless enemy came at great personal cost.

Author : George Sanford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134303007

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Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940 by George Sanford Pdf

Examining the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and other camps in 1940 - one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War - this book sheds new light on what took place and how the memory of the massacres long affected, and continues to affect, Polish-Russian relations.

Author : Stanisław Swianiewicz
Publisher : Pender Island, B.C. : Borealis Pub.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112289066

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In the Shadow of Katyn by Stanisław Swianiewicz Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the Katyn Forest Massacre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1518 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940
ISBN : UOM:39015005687275

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The Katyn Forest Massacre by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the Katyn Forest Massacre Pdf

Author : John H. Lauck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014601481

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Katyn Killings by John H. Lauck Pdf

Author : J. K. Zawodny
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786251671

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Death In The Forest; The Story Of The Katyn Forest Massacre by J. K. Zawodny Pdf

MORE THAN 15,000 Polish soldiers, among them 800 Doctors of Medicine, were murdered in one operation. Originally they had been taken into captivity by the Soviet Army in 1939. There was a possibility, however, that the prisoners, while still alive, had been taken from Soviet custody by German forces in 1941. Some of the bodies were found in German-held territory. The ropes with which their hands were tied were Soviet-made, but the bullets with which the men were killed were of German origin. The Soviet and German governments accused each other of the massacre. To obtain or remove the evidence, the intelligence services of several nations carried on a merciless secret contest in the Katyn Forest, Poland, Germany, Italy, England, and the United States. Men disappeared; so did files, including one from the United States Military Intelligence Office. In the process a key witness was found hanged, diplomatic and military careers were destroyed in the United States, personnel of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg lied by omission, and so did some of the greatest Allied leaders of the Second World War. This book attempts to reconstruct, in detail, the fate of the prisoners and to provide the answers to these questions: (1) Who killed these men? (2) How were they killed? (3) Why were they killed?

Author : Wojciech Materski
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300151855

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Katyn by Wojciech Materski Pdf

In the spring of 1940, the Soviet Union carried out the mass executions of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians - taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. This work details the Soviet killings, the elaborate cover-up of the crime, and the subsequent revelations.

Author : Eugenia Maresch
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752462554

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Katyn 1940 by Eugenia Maresch Pdf

The mass murder of 22,000 Poles by the Soviet NKVD at Katyn is one of the most shocking events of the Second World War and its political implications are still being felt today. Information surrounding Katyn came to light with Russian perestroika, which made it possible to disclose a key document indicating the circumstances of the massacre. The ‘suspension of judgement’ policy of the British Government hid for more than half a century a deceitful diplomacy of Machiavellian proportions.Katyn 1940 draws on intelligence reports, previously unpublished documents, witness statements, memoranda and briefing papers of diplomats, MPs and civil servants of various echelons, who dealt with the Katyn massacre up to the present day to expose the true hypocrisy of the British and American attitude to the massacre.

Author : Tadeusz Wolsza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940
ISBN : 1531015379

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Encounter with Katyn by Tadeusz Wolsza Pdf

From the Foreword: "There are points in history which shape the identity of nations. They are significant vantage points, collections of the most important events, works, and ideas. One such event in Polish history is the Katyń Massacre. The aim of its perpetrators was the genocidal extermination of the Polish national elite. The Polish officers who were taken prisoner without trial or sentence were murdered with a bullet in the back of the head, and buried in a mass grave in a forest, unbeknownst to their families. . . . The story we present in this book is interwoven with the drama of the lives of people who testified to that crime. The Katyń affair is the story of a great lie that spread around the world and was designed to be perpetuated and established forever. The truth about the crimes of the Red Army and the nature of the Communist system was not to be told. For this reason, there were two realities: one that strove for the truth, and the other, the official line. Those who thought or spoke differently were oppressed, not only in Poland by the Communist secret police, but also throughout the world by intelligence agencies and fellow travelers, such as Communist parties in Western Europe. The title of the book, Encounter with Katyń, reflects that reality, because those who came into contact with this issue, even by random chance or unintentionally, faced far-reaching repressive measures for the rest of their lives."