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On October 30, 1989 three thousand people with candles in their hands surrounded the KGB building in Moscow. They wanted to show they remember about the victims of the Stalin crimes.
On May 12, 1970, General Władysław Anders, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces in 1944-1945, died in exile in London.
On 25 March 1957, in Moscow, the governments of the Polish People’s Republic and the USSR signed an agreement on the date and procedure for the repatriation from the Soviet Union of persons of Polish nationality.
“Spring” – under this code name, the Soviets carried out an operation of mass displacements from the territory of Lithuania annexed after World War II.
For several decades after the war, families referred to the victims of the Roundup as “missing” because they did not know their fate. Many believed that they had been deported to Sybir, and that they would one day return. It was not until 2011 when Nikita Petrov, a researcher from the (now illegal) Russian Memorial International Society, revealed a document incontrovertibly confirming that they had been murdered at an as yet undetermined place and time. In 2015 the Sejm of the Republic of Poland established 12 July as the “Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Augustów Roundup”.
If Children’s Day had already been celebrated in 1945, a group of children who had just arrived in Białystok on June 1, 1945 from Karakulin, a village near the Urals, would have had a special reason to celebrate.
