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The April meeting of the "Faces of Opole" series will be by no means an opportunity to talk about the memory of Polish victims of the Soviet repression system. For it is April that is the month marking the anniversary of the disclosure of the Katyń massacre.

At first, the Katyń case was shrouded in a compelled silence for many years, and the memory of the victims of the NKVD massacre lasted only in their families. It was only at the end of the 1980s that a breakthrough was made in this matter, so that the truth about the perpetrators of the crime came to light during the Polish political transformation. It was then that the families of the victims also could speak out publicly and even set up formal structures to help cultivate the memory of Katyń and disseminate the individual stories of those murdered.

One of the people involved in the activities of "Katyń Families" is Maria Matlachowska, secretary of the Opole branch of the Association. She was born in 1935, so she too was affected by the horrors of war - she was deported, together with her mother and two siblings, to Kazakhstan. At that time, she could not have imagined that her father, Lieutenant Józef Libura, held in the NKVD special camp in Starobelsk, would never return home.

The meeting with Maria Matlachowska is entitled 'Krasne, Starobielsk, Kazakhstan... Memory of the wartime apocalypse', and will be moderated by Dr. Renata Kobylarz-Buła and the daughter of our interlocutor, Joanna Matlachowska-Pala. The meeting will be followed by a visit to the exhibition "I love You, see you...", which presents, also, the fate of Julia and Józef Libura.

We would like to invite you to the Museum's seat at 3 Minorytów Street, at 5 p.m., on 25^th of April!

Invitation - meeting with Maria Matlachowska: "Krasne, Starobielsk, Kazakhstan... Memory of the wartime apocalypse".