Story about Katin no mori / Katyń / Das Massaker von Katyn / Катынь / Katyn / 卡廷惨案
When the Soviet Union on 17 September 1939 invades Poland, Anna Aleksandrowna leaves her home in Kra...
When the Soviet Union on 17 September 1939 invades Poland, Anna Aleksandrowna leaves her home in Krakow to search for her husband, the Polish captain Andrzej. She finds him together with other officer captured by the Red Army, but some minutes later he is pushed into a train, which will take all the Polish officer to a prison camp in Kozelsk in Russia. Anna and her daughter Nika is now stuck in the Soviet occupied zone, unable to go back to Krakow in the German zone, not until a brave Russian captain helps them to flee. 3 April 1940 Andrzej is tranported from the prison camp in Kozelsk to the Katyn Forest, where thousands of Polish officer are killed. In 1943 the German capture this area and find the mass graves. 13 April 1943 they start announcing the names of the identified corpses through loudspeaker in Krakow. Anna is happy that Andrzej is not in any of the Katyn lists, which gives her some hope. 18 January 1945 the Red Army liberates Krakow from the Nazis. The Russian ...