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From letters addressed to the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding

as part of the project to reconstruct the Belarusian Katyn List

A comb with inscription

recovered from the death pits during the exhumation in Kuropaty

Read by Ian McQuillan-Grace

Konstanty Rdułtowski

Memories from Minsk prison

Read by Philip Lenkowsky

Stefan Śnieżko

General Prosecutor of the Republic of Poland

Read by Maria Niklińska

Vasyl Symonenko

"The prophecy of 1917"
(translated by M. Bohachevsky-Chomiak)

Read by Artem Manuilov

Vladimir Gavrischuk

Excerpt from the testimony of 19 May 1989

Read by Ian McQuillan-Grace

Bronisław Młodziejowski

From the report of the probing and exhumation investigation in Mednoye

Read by Maria Niklińska

Dmitry Tokarev

From the report of the interrogation of the former head of the NKVD Directorate of the Kalinin Region

Read by Ian McQuillan-Grace

Ivan Yurasov
commissar of the Ostashkov camp

Political report

Read by Rita Raider

Alojzy Piotr Babinski

From the notes found during the exhumation in Kharkiv

Read by Philip Lenkowsky

Piotr Woropay-Hordziejewicz

A letter to his wife from the camp in Starobilsk

Read by Philip Lenkowsky

Mikhail Kirshin, commissar of the Starobilsk camp

Extraordinary Political Report

Read by Rita Raider

Bronisław Młynarski

From memoirs of a survivor of Starobilsk prison camp

Read by Ian McQuillan-Grace

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Piero Onifiani

Shame

zdjęcie z ekshumacji

Dr Helge Tramsen

a Danish surgeon, one of the twelve doctors who went to Katyń in April 1943 as a member of the International Commissions

portret dr Bartoszewskiego

An interview with Dr. Hieronim Bartoszewski

medical doctor, member of the Polish Red Cross Technical Committee in 1943

Przekazanie dokumentów katyńskich

Statement by the TASS Agency

Read by Jodie Baltazar

13 April 1990, Moscow

Portret Józefa Książek

Józef Książek

daughter of Captain Józef Książek murdered at Katyn

read by Jodie Baltazar

Portret Kazimierza Wierzyńskiego

Kazimierz Wierzynski

Funeral Mass in the New York Cathedral

Read by Aidan Hoyle

John Paul II

Address to the Katyń Families during a special audience

Read by Philip Lenkowsky

Portret Eugeniusza Mikuckiego

Krysia Mikucka and Staś Mikucki

children of Second Lieutenant Eugeniusz Mikucki, who was murdered and buried in Katyn

Portret Ferdynanda Goetela

Ferdynand Goetel

writer, witness to the German exhumation

Nagrobek Józefa Trepiaka

Józef Trepiak

a diary written in the 1939 calendar wydobytym z dołów śmierciEN

Józef Mackiewicz

A witness of the German exhumation

Portret Teofila Rubasińskiego

Teofil Ryszard Rubasiński

one of the discoverers of the pit of death in Katyń

Portret Józefa Czapskiego

Józef Czapski

prisoner of the camp in Starobelsk

Portret Adama Solskiego

Adam Solski

Last sentences from a notepad extracted from the death pit at Katyń

zdjęcie notatki Ławrientija Berii do Józefa Stalina

A note from Lavrentiy Beria to Joseph Stalin

5 March 1940

Read by Vergil Smith

Józef Mackiewicz

A witness of the German exhumation