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Prime Minister Szydło paid tribute to the victims of the Katyń massacre (Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland)
Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
(Source. Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland) ... Original Document. https.//www.premier.gov.pl/en/news/news/prime-minister-szydlo-paid-tribute-to-the-victims-of-the-katyn-massacre.html. (noodl. 33257852) ....
Polish leaders threaten fate of nearly finished WWII museum
Edit Springfield News-Sun 24 Apr 2016
Poland's conservative government is taking steps that threaten an ambitious new World War II museum which international experts have spent eight years creating — the latest ideological battle the nation's nationalistic authorities are waging against the pro-European rivals they ousted from power last year ... He said it would also leave out key events like the Katyn massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers by the Soviet secret police ... ....
The Fire Each Time
Edit CounterPunch 22 Apr 2016
Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, and suddenly there was light, and warmth, and the gathering at the hearth ... Some noted the similarity between 2 May in Odessa and the massacre of Khatin (not be confused with Katyn) on 22 March 1943, when the Nazis, occupying Belarus, gathered 149 civilians in a building and burnt them alive as collective punishment for an action carried out by the partisan resistance ... ....
How a 2010 air crash is still dividing Poland
Edit New Statesman 17 Apr 2016
The conspiracy theories around the Smolensk crash continue to unsettle Polish politics six years' later ... Unity was nowhere to be seen ... the 1940 Katyn Massacre, in which the Soviet secret police executed 20,000 Poles – an act they blamed on the Nazis until as recently as 1994 ... It did not take long before the victims of the Smolensk plane crash were being likened to those who died in Katyn and referred to as “the fallen” ... Getty ....
Polish delegation paid tribute in Smolensk to the victims of Tu-154 crash (Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland)
Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
The conviction of the importance which the memory of Katyn has for Poles united also those who died together with President Lech Kaczyński, irrespective of their political views, which were sometimes so different - Minister Anders pointed out ... Katyn Museum, clergy, scouts and students from schools which have the name of the Katyn victims. Earlier, the Polish delegation attended the anniversary celebrations in Katyn....
Sixth anniversary of Smolensk deadly plane crash marked
Edit China Daily 11 Apr 2016
in front of the Presidential Palace. Apart from the commemoration within the territory of Poland, a delegation composed of victims' families and officials, headed by Anna Maria Anders, attend memorial services held in Smolensk and Katyn. The Polish air force plane was heading to Russia to take part in events commemorating Polish victims of Katyn executions in 1940, but tragically crashed in the city of Smolensk on April 10, 2010....
Poland honours late president and other plane crash victims
Edit Belfast Telegraph 10 Apr 2016
The allegations come from the ruling Law and Justice party led by the late president's twin brother. Share Go To ... Defence minister Antoni Macierewicz has said the crash was an act of terrorism perpetrated by Russia ... They were flying to Russia for observances honouring Polish officers killed in the forest of Katyn and elsewhere by the Soviet secret police in 1940 ... ....
Poland honors late president and other plane crash victims
Edit Tampa Bay Online 10 Apr 2016
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Ceremonies were held in Poland on Sunday honoring late President Lech Kaczynski and the 95 others who were killed in a 2010 plane crash in Russia, amid revived allegations that the crash was a conspiracy by Russia and Poland's government at the time ... They were flying to Russia for observances honoring Polish officers killed in the forest of Katyn and elsewhere by the Soviet secret police in 1940 ... ....
Crash Remembered by Polish Leadership That Scorns Smolensk Story
Edit Bloomberg 10 Apr 2016
Poland’s president and prime minister will for the first time take part in commemorations of the Smolensk plane crash after rejecting years of investigations into the tragedy that devastated a swath of the country’s ruling elite ... The government plane was carrying officials to Russia for a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s World War II massacre of thousands of Polish officers at nearby Katyn in 1940 ... ....
N.J. farm that was sanctuary to WWII orphan is preserved
Edit Lehigh Valley 08 Apr 2016
By Dave Harding. KINGWOOD -- By the time the 4-year-old girl arrived at a farm here in 1941, she had faced more horrors than most people endure in a lifetime. The piercing screams of air-raid sirens. The angry buzz of German Luftwaffe bombers droning over London. The groans of buildings collapsing from the plummeting bombs ... The 1945 bestseller detailed the Katyn Forest Massacres, slave labor and the Russian retreat from Moscow ... ....
Poles Apart
Edit Al Jazeera 07 Apr 2016
Once a communist dictatorship, Poland is generally considered a successful democracy ... We went to find out why ... The Smolensk disaster is Poland's 19/11 moment, etched into the collective psyche; many political and cultural figures were on their way to commemorate the Katyn massacre - a wartime atrocity in which thousands of Polish army officers were gunned down by Soviet forces - when their plane crashed in thick fog ... Editor's note ... ....
Global Awareness of Genocide Is at an All-Time High, but That Hasn't Stopped It From Happening
Edit Alternet 30 Mar 2016
More recent contributions to this genre include films about genocides such as the Katyn Forest Massacre (Katyn, 2007, made by Andrzej Wajda, the great Polish director whose father was one of the victims) and the French genocide against Algerians (The Battle of Algiers, 1966, Gillo Pontecorvo’s shocking movie) ... Even Katyn now has its monument, though it is hard to get to....
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