Wacław Stążewski is one of the nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia taken captive by the Soviet Union after its attack on Poland on 17 September 1939, made prisoners of war and then murdered in cold blood in April and May 1940 by the NKVD in a planned holocaust. In all, the NKVD executed almost half the Polish officer corps.
2LT Wacław Stążewski, Polish citizen, was the son of Bronisława Stążewska née Korczak and Walenty Stążewski.
REFERENCES
For a list of "The Victims of the Katyń Massacre who were Murdered in Katyń", see:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofiary_zbrodni_katyńskiej_–_zamordowani_w_Katyniu
For a biogram ofStążewski see:
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/3523
For a short documentary on the holocaust of the Polish officers and its historical background and its cover-up see:
"Katyn - WWII's Forgotten Massacre" by Mark Felton, 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2djnWw751s
Written by Ivonna Nowicka, 2023
2LT Wacław Stążewski, Polish citizen, was the son of Bronisława Stążewska née Korczak and Walenty Stążewski.
REFERENCES
For a list of "The Victims of the Katyń Massacre who were Murdered in Katyń", see:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofiary_zbrodni_katyńskiej_–_zamordowani_w_Katyniu
For a biogram ofStążewski see:
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/3523
For a short documentary on the holocaust of the Polish officers and its historical background and its cover-up see:
"Katyn - WWII's Forgotten Massacre" by Mark Felton, 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2djnWw751s
Written by Ivonna Nowicka, 2023
Wacław Stążewski is one of the nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia taken captive by the Soviet Union after its attack on Poland on 17 September 1939, made prisoners of war and then murdered in cold blood in April and May 1940 by the NKVD in a planned holocaust. In all, the NKVD executed almost half the Polish officer corps.
2LT Wacław Stążewski, Polish citizen, was the son of Bronisława Stążewska née Korczak and Walenty Stążewski.
REFERENCES
For a list of "The Victims of the Katyń Massacre who were Murdered in Katyń", see:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofiary_zbrodni_katyńskiej_–_zamordowani_w_Katyniu
For a biogram ofStążewski see:
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/3523
For a short documentary on the holocaust of the Polish officers and its historical background and its cover-up see:
"Katyn - WWII's Forgotten Massacre" by Mark Felton, 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2djnWw751s
Written by Ivonna Nowicka, 2023
2LT Wacław Stążewski, Polish citizen, was the son of Bronisława Stążewska née Korczak and Walenty Stążewski.
REFERENCES
For a list of "The Victims of the Katyń Massacre who were Murdered in Katyń", see:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofiary_zbrodni_katyńskiej_–_zamordowani_w_Katyniu
For a biogram ofStążewski see:
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/3523
For a short documentary on the holocaust of the Polish officers and its historical background and its cover-up see:
"Katyn - WWII's Forgotten Massacre" by Mark Felton, 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2djnWw751s
Written by Ivonna Nowicka, 2023
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