TIMELINE
25.07.2020 – Bernard Ładysz – maestro, patriot
Legendary opera singer died on July 25, 2020.
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.
28.01.1819 – Jan Kiliński, ordinary shoemaker – great man
Jan Kiliński - a shoemaker, Warsaw councillor, one of the commanders fighting in the Kościuszko Insurrection, a symbol of patriotism, today the patron of numerous streets, schools, scout troops... He is less known as an exile to Siberia.
26.06.1579 – The first exiles of the Polish Republic
The first Siberian fortresses were built by Polish prisoners of war who had been taken captive by Moscow authorities precisely during the war initiated by Stefan Batory.
