In Washington last week, a special House committee resumed the investigation it began last fall into the wartime massacre of more than 4,000 Polish officers in Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia (TIME ...

(Reuters) - Russia made public for the first time Wednesday documents relating to the 1940 execution of 22,000 Polish officers by the Soviet NKVD secret police, including an order signed by dictator ...

The decapitation of the Polish government last weekend, including President Lech Kaczynski and the military leadership, on that flight to Smolensk to commemorate the Katyn Massacre, brings to mind the ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's state archives posted documents on the Internet for the first time Wednesday about the Soviet Union's World War II massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officers and other ...

(Reuters) - Poland's president on Monday visited the site in western Russia of a Soviet massacre of Polish officers during World War Two. Below are some facts about the massacre. - In early 1940, some ...

The Katyn massacre exhibit at the Central Library is intended to honor the past by publicizing the story of a terrible but little-acknowledged event in World War II. An estimated 15,000 to more than ...

BALTIMORE (AP) As a young Polish officer, Monsignor Zdzislaw J. Peszkowski was spared execution when Soviet troops invaded Poland in 1939. But thousands of his comrades were not as fortunate. Those ...

My first thought upon hearing of last weekend’s tragedy in the misty canopy of Smolensk was a professionally selfish one. “Would Ann Applebaum be filing her Slate column on Monday?” Applebaum’s ...

Fifty years after creating the first cinematic account of the Warsaw uprising with “Kanal” – a classic that put Polish cinema on the international map – octogenarian master Andrzej Wajda offers “Katyn ...