Remembering Katyn: EIOCO participates in Katyn remembrance event

On April 12, we were invited as a guest speaker by the General Sosabowski Polish School in Brunssum to the open lesson dedicated to the Katyn Massacre, The event was attended by students, teachers and parents.

School Director Ms. Bożena Cichy delivered a presentation on the Katyn massacre, its historical overview and far-reaching consequences.Further, a literature teacher Ms. Jolanta Żukowska discussed the artistic influences in Andrzej Wajda’s acclaimed film Katyn and how they helped  preserve collective memory. Beata Bruggeman-Sękowska elaborated on the role of our Institute in raising awareness of communism as a totalitarian system in the Netherlands and globally and also discussed  the mechanisms of Soviet disinformation and propaganda in obscuring the truth of Katyn and manipulating international perception for decades.

Photos: ©Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska and communications-unlimited.nl

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Katyn: erased but not forgotten

Daughters of Poland: The Lewandowska Sisters and the War’s Two Fronts