TIMELINE
18.05.1944 – The Polish flag and St. Mary’s Trumpet Call on the Monte Cassino hill
On May 18, 1944, soldiers of the 2 Polish Corps hung the Polish flag on the ruins of the Monte Cassino monastery.
11.11.1941 – Polish Independence Day on the Irtysh River
The date of 11 November 1918, being the day on which Poland regained its independence, is a symbolic date. Exactly on that day, an armistice ending the First World War was concluded in a wagon in the forest of Compiègne.
12.08.1941 – The co-called amnesty
On August 12, 1941, the authorities of the Soviet Union gave "amnesty" to hundreds of thousands of Poles deported to Siberia.
29.06.1940 – The third Soviet deportation
Helena Grodecka-Możdżeniowa, was one of about 90,000 victims of the third great deportation, which began on 29 June 1940. Most of those deported were refugees from the German occupation, mostly Jews. Poles accounted for about 11 per cent.
3.04.1940 – The first “death transport” from Kozelsk
On April 3,1940, the first “death transport” of Polish prisoners of war set off from the Kozelsk camp.
4.02.1940 – Execution of the “Bloody Dwarf”
On 4 February 1940 (presumably!), Nikolai Yezhov, one of the cruellest perpetrators of Stalinist terror, was executed.
