TIMELINE
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.
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.
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.
30.01.1930 – The kulak deportation
On 30 January 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) decided to launch the largest resettlement operation in the entire history of the Soviet Union, still referred to today as the 'kulak deportation'.
23.07.1920 – Japanese help for Polish children
On 23 July 1920, the first ship from Vladivostok with Polish children evacuated from Siberia arrived in Tsuruga, Japan. By 1922, a total of more than 700 kids had arrived in the Land of the Cherry Blossom. Their first stops were the cities of Tsuruga and Osaka.
10.01.1920 – The capitulation of the 5th Siberian Division
Volunteer Polish units in Siberia began to organise as early as the turn of 1917/1918.
