Remembering the Katyn Massacres , Cannock Chase, Central England
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The Story Of The Polish Children In Esfahan - Iran 1942-1944.
The Story Of The Polish Children In Esfahan - Iran 1942-1944.
ASPJ & Kresy-Siberia - The Forgotten Deportees, Polish Exiles ...
This is the record of an event presented by Kresy-Siberia (Australia) Ltd. and the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants Inc. on 27 February 2011 in Melbourne, Australia.
In 1940-41 over 1 million Polish citizens of Jewish, Catholic and other faiths and ethnicities from eastern Poland were killed, repressed or deported by the Soviets to prisons, forced labour camps (GULAGs) and "special settlements" in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia.
ASPJ and Kresy-Siberia (Australia) presented a panel discussion with Siberian exile survivors and their descendants.
Moderator: Prof. Stephen G. Wheatcroft,
FASSA, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne.
Panel: Krystyna Kinst, Zosia Skarbek and Stefan Wisniowski.
Film screening: "A Forgotten Odyssey" by Jagna Wright and Aneta Naszynska.
Special guest: Daniel Gromann, Consul General of the Republic of Poland, speaking on "Polish History Today".
Date: 27 February 2011.
Venue: Jewish Holocaust Centre, 13-15 Selwyn St, Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia.
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About the participants:
Moderator, Professor Stephen Wheatcroft took his first degree in Economics and Russian Studies at Keele University, and his PhD in Soviet Economic History at Birmingham University. He has spent some considerable time working and researching in the Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian State and Party Archives and at the Moscow Institute of National Economics (Plekhanov Institute), the Moscow State University and the Institute of History of the Russian and Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Stephen has published widely on Russian pre-revolutionary and Soviet social, economic and demographic history and has recently co-authored a major history of the Soviet Famine of 1931-3. He also has a research interest in famine and food supply problems in modern world history, the impact of media on history, and in recent developments in Russian and Ukrainian society. He is one of the main editors of the major Russian pub
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Olivia Alford reads her poem on Katyn at the 75th Anniversary commemorations at Cannock Chase, Staffordshire on 17th May 2015
BYKOWNIA Roll Call and Salvo of Honour
Roll Call and Salvo of Honour at the 75th Anniversary memorial ceremony of the mass murder of 22 thousand Polish officers, policemen and public servants - held at one of the mass grave sites, in Bykownia, Ukraine.
The beginning of the Ceremony at the Polish Cemetery in Monte Cassino. Every Scout held a red poppy.