Katyn May 2026

Home to the Katyń Museum , which preserves the memory of those lost.

For Poland, Katyn is more than a historical event; it is a symbol of national martyrdom. This trauma was tragically compounded on April 10, 2010, when a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczyński and 95 others crashed in Smolensk while they were en route to a 70th-anniversary commemoration of the massacre. 📍

The USSR immediately blamed the Nazis for the killings, claiming the Poles were executed during the German advance in 1941. Home to the Katyń Museum , which preserves

In 1992, Boris Yeltsin released the "Package No. 1," which contained the original 1940 execution order signed by Stalin and the Politburo.

Roughly 22,000 Polish nationals, including approximately 4,500 officers found in Katyn forest. 📍 The USSR immediately blamed the Nazis for

Locations of other mass burial sites discovered later.

Following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, thousands of Polish prisoners of war were held in camps in the USSR. On March 5, 1940, Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders signed an order to execute "nationalists and counter-revolutionaries" held in these camps. On March 5

The primary site of discovery and a major memorial.