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The National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Katyn Massacre
On 13 April marks the National Day of Remembrance of the Katyń Massacre. It reminds that on that day, in 1943, in Berlin, was announced an information on the discovery of mass graves of the Polish officers in the Katyń Forest. It was only 47 years later that the USSR admitted to the crime.
The decision to shoot 22 thousand of Poles was taken in 1940 following an order of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks). Among those sentenced to death were mainly soldiers of the Polish Army and uniformed services, including the State Police, Border Guard and Prison Service. The sentence was carried out by the NKVD. Today's holiday was established by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland in 2007.
In the Opole's commemoration of The National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Katyn Massacre our Museum was represented by the deputy director, Dr. Renata Kobylarz-Buła. The event was organised by the Association "Katyń Family" in Opole, in front of the Monument to the Victims of Katyn Massacre. It included a roll call of remembrance, commemorative speeches and laying of flowers.