Gallery – The Katyn Massacres
Janusz Podczaski
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Janusz Podczaski, son of Józef. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Janusz Podczaski
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Janusz Podczaski, son of Józef. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Janusz Podczaski
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Janusz Podczaski, son of Józef. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Janusz Podczaski
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Janusz Podczaski, son of Józef. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Idzi Grudniewicz
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Idzi Grudniewicz, son of Władysław. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Idzi Grudniewicz
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Idzi Grudniewicz, son of Władysław. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Henryk Sułkowski
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Henryk Sułkowski, son of Adam. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Henryk Sułkowski
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Henryk Sułkowski, son of Adam. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Henryk Sułkowski
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Henryk Sułkowski, son of Adam. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Henryk Sułkowski
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Henryk Sułkowski, son of Adam. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Henryk Sułkowski
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Henryk Sułkowski, son of Adam. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Henryk Sułkowski
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Henryk Sułkowski, son of Adam. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Eugeniusz Jóswikiewicz
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Eugeniusz Jóswikiewicz, son of Gustaw. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Edwin Finger
Polish Navy officer executed in the Katyn Massacres - Edwin Finger (son of Gustaw). Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Edwin Finger
Polish Navy officer executed in the Katyn Massacres - Edwin Finger (son of Gustaw). Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Bronisław Lubinkowski
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Bronisław Lubinkowski, son of Witold. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Bołesław Kazimierz Rutyński
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Bołesław Kazimierz Rutyński, son of Kazimierz. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Andrzej Marzecki
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Andrzej Marzecki, son of Piotr. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Alojzy Mrozik
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Alojzy Mrozik, son of Piotr. Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Poland
Polish navy
Eugeniusz Jóswikiewicz letter from Katyn
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Eugeniusz Jóswikiewicz, son of Gustaw. This letter was written from him in Kozielsk to his wife in Warsaw (this is an English translation, the original is published in Polish). Source: Katyn Museum, Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Russia
Kozielsk
Polish navy
Eugeniusz Jóswikiewicz Katyn letter
Polish Navy officer executed at Katyń by the Soviet NKVD, Spring 1940. Eugeniusz Jóswikiewicz, son of Gustaw. This letter was written from him in Kozielsk to his wife in Warsaw.
Katyn Museum, Warsaw
During WWII
Russia
Kozielsk
Polish navy
ofiara zbrodni katyńskiej
ofiara zbrodni katyńskiej
Sybirak Assoc - Łódź
Before WWII
Poland
Białostockie
Bykownia plaque
Memorial plaque in Bykownia cemetery with the details of Franciszek Turkiewicz.
Mark Turkiewicz
After WWII
Postcard regarding missing Policeman killed in Katyn 1
Tomasz Wojtkowiak was the uncle of Wanda Troman and brother of Polish Navy veteran Jozef Wojtkowiak. Tomasz was born on 17 November 1910 in Nekla in the province of Poznan. In 1939 he was a Policeman in Wysokie Litwskie in the Eastern Borderlands. When the Soviets invaded he was arrested. The family later discovered that he was murdered by the Soviets in the Katyn Massacres in 1940 in Miednoye. This postcard was written by the wife of the Commander of the Wysokie Litewskie Polish Police Station, Mrs. Olga Sidoruk, to Mr Jan Wojtkowiak (Tomasz and Jozef’s brother) in Opatow, Rynek 15. Wysokie Litewskie was then in the district of Kamieniec Litewski, the province of Brest (in Polish Brzesc). Addressed to: Germany, Generalgouvernement. The postcard (Post Office Stamp in Russian: Minsk) Kamieniec Litewski, Brest province. Sent by Olga Sidoruk. "15 February 1941. Dear Sir, I am very sorry that I cannot give you any encouraging information regarding Tomasz in answer to your letter received by me on 12 February 1941. It is almost a year ago that I had the last communication from him and since then any trace of him had disappeared, not only regarding him, as many of his colleagues were with him and neither do they write letters to their wives and children. For the time being we are waiting, may be he will get in touch and then I’ll immediately inform you. Different tales are being circulated. One thing is sure that their fate is not sweet, however, I think that he will hang on and return healthy. I remain yours faithfully. O. Sidoruk."
Wanda Troman
During WWII
Poland
Wysokie Litewskie
September 1939 Campaign
Postcard regarding missing Policeman killed in Katyn 2
Tomasz Wojtkowiak was the uncle of Wanda Troman and brother of Polish Navy veteran Jozef Wojtkowiak. Tomasz was born on 17 November 1910 in Nekla in the province of Poznan. In 1939 he was a Policeman in Wysokie Litwskie in the Eastern Borderlands. When the Soviets invaded he was arrested. The family later discovered that he was murdered by the Soviets in the Katyn Massacres in 1940 in Miednoye. This postcard was written by the wife of the Commander of the Wysokie Litewskie Polish Police Station, Mrs. Olga Sidoruk, to Mr Jan Wojtkowiak (Tomasz and Jozef’s brother) in Opatow, Rynek 15. Wysokie Litewskie was then in the district of Kamieniec Litewski, the province of Brest (in Polish Brzesc). Addressed to: Germany, Generalgouvernement. The postcard (Post Office Stamp in Russian: Minsk) Kamieniec Litewski, Brest province. Sent by Olga Sidoruk. "15 February 1941. Dear Sir, I am very sorry that I cannot give you any encouraging information regarding Tomasz in answer to your letter received by me on 12 February 1941. It is almost a year ago that I had the last communication from him and since then any trace of him had disappeared, not only regarding him, as many of his colleagues were with him and neither do they write letters to their wives and children. For the time being we are waiting, may be he will get in touch and then I’ll immediately inform you. Different tales are being circulated. One thing is sure that their fate is not sweet, however, I think that he will hang on and return healthy. I remain yours faithfully. O. Sidoruk."
Wanda Troman
During WWII
Poland
Wysokie Litewskie
September 1939 Campaign
Postcard regarding missing Policeman killed in Katyn 2
Tomasz Wojtkowiak was the uncle of Wanda Troman and brother of Polish Navy veteran Jozef Wojtkowiak. Tomasz was born on 17 November 1910 in Nekla in the province of Poznan. In 1939 he was a Policeman in Wysokie Litwskie in the Eastern Borderlands. When the Soviets invaded he was arrested. The family later discovered that he was murdered by the Soviets in the Katyn Massacres in 1940 in Miednoye. This postcard was written by the wife of the Commander of the Wysokie Litewskie Polish Police Station, Mrs. Olga Sidoruk, to Mr Jan Wojtkowiak (Tomasz and Jozef’s brother) in Opatow, Rynek 15. Wysokie Litewskie was then in the district of Kamieniec Litewski, the province of Brest (in Polish Brzesc). Addressed to: Germany, Generalgouvernement. The postcard (Post Office Stamp in Russian: Minsk) Kamieniec Litewski, Brest province. Sent by Olga Sidoruk. "15 February 1941. Dear Sir, I am very sorry that I cannot give you any encouraging information regarding Tomasz in answer to your letter received by me on 12 February 1941. It is almost a year ago that I had the last communication from him and since then any trace of him had disappeared, not only regarding him, as many of his colleagues were with him and neither do they write letters to their wives and children. For the time being we are waiting, may be he will get in touch and then I’ll immediately inform you. Different tales are being circulated. One thing is sure that their fate is not sweet, however, I think that he will hang on and return healthy. I remain yours faithfully. O. Sidoruk."
Wanda Troman
During WWII
Poland
Wysokie Litewskie
September 1939 Campaign
Stanislaw Adam Zwierz
Stanislaw Adam Zwierz
Poland
Stanislaw and Maria Zemanek
Stanislaw and Maria with their children, Jadwiga (Jadwiga Kabza) and Zofia (Zofia Zwierz) named Sophie Zeville after the war.
During WWII
September 1939 Campaign
Stanislaw Adam Zemanek
Stanislaw Adam Zemanek. In 1933 he was transferred to the Command of the Corps District No. III in Grodno
Poland
Letter from Franciszek Iwanica to his wife Olga Iwanica
Letter written by Franciszek Iwanica to his wife Olga Iwanica from a prison in the Twer District of Russia (NW of Moscow) where Franciszek was imprisoned with other Polish officers in 1940. Ostashkov (Russian: Оста́шков) is a town and the administrative center of Ostashkovsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located 199 km west of Tver on a peninsula at the southern shore of Lake Seliger. (Info from Google Map)
Janina Iwanica
During WWII
Russia
Osztasków (Ostashkov), Oblast Kalininskaja (Tver)