Katyn', Russia
Katyn Polish War Cemetery
Katyn war cemetery is a Polish military cemetery located in Katyn, a small village 22 kilometres away from Smolensk, Russia, on the road to Vitebsk. It contains the remnants of 4,412 Polish officers of the Kozelsk prisoner of war camp, who were murdered in 1940 in what is called the Katyn massacre. Except for bodies of two Polish generals exhumed by German authorities in 1943 and then buried separately, all Polish officers murdered in Katyn were buried in eight large mass graves.
- City
- Katyn'
- Country
- Russia
- Category
- Museum
- Suggested visit
- About 120 minutes
Background: Wikipedia