Deportations to Siberia

Part 3 of the online memoirs of Romuald Lipinski for ‘Timewitness’

Soviet Labor Camps & Gulags

DP Camps

Katyn

  • Katedra Polowa

    List of several thousand names entered in the memory records and “Białoruska lista Katyńska” with the names of all KOP (Border Patrol) officers/members murdered in 1940

  • Katyn – Family Stories

    moving accounts by relatives of men arrested and put to death in the Katyn forest

  • Katyn – The Forest Massacre

    includes history, maps, useful weblinks, and photographs

  • The Lost 10,000

    A September 1979 article by Louis FitzGibbon

  • A Katyn Diary of Leon Gladun, Polish Officer

  • Katyn Memorial Wall

    Includes background, copy of Stalin’s order, and Memorial Wall of names of the murdered

  • The Katyn Forest Massacre: Morals in American Foreign Policy

    an essay by Prof. Janusz K. Zawodny, PhD

  • The Katyn Massacre: An Assessment of its Significance as a Public and Historical Issue in the United States and Great Britain, 1940-1993

    A thesis presented to the Department of History Western Illinois University by Louis Robert Coatney, December 1993

  • Katyn photographs

    Photographs of the Katyn massacre. Most of these photographs were taken by the Germans and published in: Der Massenmord in Walde von Katyn Ein Tatsachenbericht (The Massacre in the Katyn Forest an Examination of the Evidence), Germany, 1943

  • Katyn Forest massacre – Final report to US Congress

    Final Report of the Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre of the United States House of Representatives (22 December 1952): This report is 54 pages in pdf form. The entire report is over 2,000 pages long and not on-line

  • Katyn photographs

    In Part I, a brief account of the Special Operations Executive and its records explains the nature of the documentation. This sets the context for Part II, a short study on the Katyn massacre and the British Government’s reaction to it. Because of the covert nature of SOE operations, and their focus on propaganda and sabotage as part of the war effort, these files cast a new perspective on a number of wartime issues. 

  • A Special Operations Executive (UK) perspective

    Photographs of the Katyn massacre. Most of these photographs were taken by the Germans and published in: Der Massenmord in Walde von Katyn Ein Tatsachenbericht (The Massacre in the Katyn Forest an Examination of the Evidence), Germany, 1943

  • British reactions to the Katyn Massacre, 1943-2003

    The centrepiece is a previously unpublished memorandum by the late Dr. Rohan D’Olier Butler, Historical Adviser to Secretaries of State from 1963-1982. He was set the task in 1972 of bringing together, for internal use, all the available evidence from British official records. The ‘Butler memorandum’ documents in detail the views of the British Government on Katyn from 1943 on. It therefore gives an accurate account of what the British Government knew about Katyn, and why they maintained the public line about the massacre throughout the Cold War

  • Our Shame Still Lies in Katyn Forest

by Kevin Myers, The Telegraph, London April 27, 2003

by Benjamin B. Fischer, CIA

In this testimony, German and Soviet experts contradict each other as to when the deaths occurred

The Middle East

  • Short video of the Polish Cemetary in Tehran

    Short video of the Polish Cemetary in Tehran by Michael Kruszewski. Shows the entrance, the monument and the general appearance of the cemetery. Narrated.

  • For the Life of a Child

    History of Filipina Stadnicka in Tehran, a Polish survivor of the gulags

  • Tales of the Persian Corridor

    Documentary on the story of American servicemen, Soviet officers and civilians who played a crucial role in supplying the Soviet Union with badly-needed military equipment via Iran during World War II

  • Bridge to Victory in Iran

    An excerpt from “On Borrowed Wings” by Robert D. Burgener on the activities of the Allied forces in Iran during World War II

Poland in World War 2 – General

A verbatim transcript of the publication “The Soviet Occupation of Poland”, Free Europe Pamphlet #3, edited by Casimir Smogorzewski. It was originally published in December 1940 and so provides a unique early view of the occupation, before Katyn was discovered

Slavic and East European Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Polish Forces in World War 2

Polish Exiles

Polish History – General

Directories & Maps

The Kresy

includes history of the Kresy, geography, maps, photographs, useful links page and personal accounts of deportees

List compiled by the Polish Eastern Association (Polski Zwiazek Wschodni) in Przemysl

Archive Resources

Genealogical Resources

Associations & Groups