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Children of the Katyn Massacre: Accounts of Life After the 1940 Soviet Murder of Polish POWs

1 review
Teresa Kaczorowska

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2006

The Katyn Massacre in Broad Historical Context
In the massacre at Katyn and surrounding locations, some 22,000 members of the cream of Polish society were systematically murdered--all to prevent the Polish nation from possessing the necessary leadership to ever rise again. It was a cold-blooded act of genocide done by the Soviet Union against Poland, and its effects continue today: "Poland would today be a different country if the Soviets ...

When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption

14 reviews
Wesley Adamczyk

University Of Chicago Press, 2004

Outstanding Recollection of a Little-Known Tragedy
The teaching of history is often distorted by selective presentation of past events. Virtually everyone has heard of the 5-6 million Jews killed by the Germans. Few outside Polish circles have a clue about the fact that 2-3 million gentile Poles were also murdered by the Germans, and a few hundred thousand by the Soviets--first as Poland's sworn enemy and then as an "ally". While Churchill and ...