TIMELINE
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.
4.07.1943 – A plane crash in Gibraltar
On 4 July 1943, at 23:07, moments after take-off from Gibraltar Airport, Liberator II aircraft AL523 with General Władysław Sikorski on board, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.
11.04.1943 – When the truth came out…
On April 11, 1943, the first news about the crime committed in the forest near Katyn was released to the world.
the 16th of April 1945, The Oder was ahead of them
The last weeks of the World War Two in Europe. Last, but critical engagements, and at the same time, more victims. In the morning of 16 April 1945 the operation of crossing the Oder river started, in which soldiers of the First Polish Army took part. Among the Polish units the First Infantry Divisio
