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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, […]
Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska The Katyn Massacre refers to the mass execution of over 20,000 Polish military officers, police officers, and intellectuals, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940. This atrocity occurred after both Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939: Germany attacked from the west on September 1, while the Soviets invaded […]
By Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska On April 13, 1943, the whole world heard about the crime committed by the Soviets. On that day, the Germans announced the discovery of the graves of Polish officers in the forest near Katyn. Three years earlier, in the spring of 1940, nearly 22,000 prisoners of war captured after the Red Army’s […]
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