Gallery – The Katyn Massacres

Letter from Tsvetukhin, Head of Special Section No 1 of the NKVD of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Senior State Security Lieutenant with the files of 3,435 prisoners in 5 bags (the Katyn Ukraine List) to Bashtakov, NKVD, Major of State Security, Moscow. File of Jan Pacewicz included in this.

Anna Pacewicz

Ukraine

Kiev

Police constable, Rowne Constabulary, Wolyn killed Katyn Massacres 1940

Anna Pacewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Rowne, Wolyn

First page of the file of the 3,435 prisoners from the Katyn Ukraine List. The files were in 5 bags and were accompanied with a letter from Tsvetukhin, Head of Special Section No 1 of the NKVD of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Senior State Security Lieutenant to Bashtakov, NKVD, Major of State Security, Moscow. File of my grandfather Jan Pacewicz murdered in Katyn Kiev-Bykownia included in this.

Anna Pacewicz

During WWII

Ukraine

Kiev

Page of the file of the 3,435 prisoners from the Katyn Ukraine List detailing my grandfather Jan Pacewicz (no 2238 born in 1895). The files were in 5 bags and were accompanied with a letter from Tsvetukhin, Head of Special Section No 1 of the NKVD of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Senior State Security Lieutenant to Bashtakov, NKVD, Major of State Security, Moscow. File of my grandfather Jan Pacewicz murdered in Katyn Kiev-Bykownia.

Anna Pacewicz

During WWII

Ukraine

Kiev

Last page of the file of the 3,435 prisoners from the Katyn Ukraine List. The files were in 5 bags and were accompanied with a letter from Tsvetukhin, Head of Special Section No 1 of the NKVD of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Senior State Security Lieutenant to Bashtakov, NKVD, Major of State Security, Moscow. File of my grandfather Jan Pacewicz murdered in Katyn Kiev-Bykownia and is detailed in this list.

Anna Pacewicz

During WWII

Ukraine

Kiev

The opening ceremony of the Katyn memorial & cemetery in Bykownia-Kiev, Ukraine was given a full military state funeral. Here is the Polish Honour Guard who fired three volleys into the air in honour of the victims - the 3,435 victims of the Katyn Ukraine List. This included Jan Pacewicz, PP Rowne.

Anna Pacewicz

After WWII

Ukraine

Kiev

Plaque for Jan Pacewicz, PP Rowne, at the Polish cemetery in Bykownia-Kiev, Ukraine for the Katyn Ukraine List vicitms.

Anna Pacewicz

After WWII

Ukraine

Kiev

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)

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

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

Porucznik Eugeniusz Pieklo my fathers principal and teacher from his secondary school in Dzierkowszczyzna Poland, murdered at Katyn.

Ron Aksonowicz

During WWII

Poland

In memory of Ludwik Singer

Lita Nadel

After WWII

Poland

Letter to Lita Nadel confirming her family member was on the Katyn list.

Lita Nadel

After WWII

Poland

Stanislaw Adam Zwierz

Poland

Stanislaw Adam Zemanek. In 1933 he was transferred to the Command of the Corps District No. III in Grodno

Poland

Stanislaw and Maria with their children, Jadwiga (Jadwiga Kabza) and Zofia (Zofia Zwierz) named Sophie Zeville after the war.

During WWII

September 1939 Campaign

Polish soldiers held prisonner in a camp

During WWII

Plan of Kozielsk Camp

During WWII

Kozielsk Camp - Signed, but signature is unclear.

During WWII

Black sun of Katyn - Centomirski Copyright

Stefan Centomirski

During WWII

ofiara zbrodni katyńskiej

Sybirak Assoc - Łódź

Before WWII

Poland

Białostockie

pismo ambasady RP

Sybirak Assoc - Warszawa

Poland

Moskwa

oficerowie policji

Stowarzyszenie Rodzina Katyńska, Wrocław

Before WWII

Poland

ofiara zbrodni katyńskiej

Stowarzyszenie Rodzina Katyńska, Wrocław

Poland

Chełm Lubelski, chełmski, Lubelskie

list z Ostaszkowa

Stowarzyszenie Rodzina Katyńska, Wrocław

Poland

Ostaszków

list z obozu

Stowarzyszenie Rodzina Katyńska, Wrocław

Poland

Kozielsk

list z Ostaszkowa

Stowarzyszenie Rodzina Katyńska, Wrocław

Poland

Ostaszków

funkcjonariusz policji

Stowarzyszenie Rodzina Katyńska, Wrocław

Before WWII

Poland

list z Ostaszkowa

Stowarzyszenie Rodzina Katyńska, Wrocław

Poland

Ostaszków

ofiara zbrodni katyńskiej

Stowarzyszenie Rodzina Katyńska, Wrocław

Before WWII

Poland