After fierce combats in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, Polish soldiers triumphantly entered Bologna.

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

Second Lieutenant pilot Janina Lewandowska wasn't really the only woman, who died in Katyn, but the only female soldier who was shot there.

On April 11, 1943, the first news about the crime committed in the forest near Katyn was released to the world.

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.

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 illeg