CPT Adolf aka Abraham Efroim Wattenberg is one of the nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and policemen and intelligentsia reserve officers 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.

CPT Adolf aka Abraham Efroim Wattenberg, Polish citizen, was the son of Bernard. He was a vet in Bursztyn in the Rohatyński District of the 2nd Polish Republic (nowadays in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in Ukraine).

REFERENCES

For a list of "The Victims of the Katyń Massacre who were Murdered in Kharkov", see:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofiary_zbrodni_katyńskiej_–_zamordowani_w_Charkowie

For a biogram of Adolf aka Abraham Efroim Wattenberg see:
Jędrzej Tucholski (ed.). Charków. Księga Cmentarna Polskiego Cmentarza Wojennego (Kharkov. The Cemetery List of the Polish War Cemetery). Warszawa, 2003. ISBN 83-916663-5-2. (in Polish)

http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/14146

For a broader description of how the unmarked burial site was discovered by children what they found there, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piatykhatky,_Kharkiv_Oblast

For the honours prison guard Mitrofan Vasilievich Syromiatnikov received from Beria for his part in murdering the Polish officers, see:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrofan_Syromiatnikow

For a description of the life of the Polish prisoners at the Starobielsk Camp see:
Czapski Józef. "Wspomnienia starobielskie" (in Polish); for a French translation see: Souvenirs de Starobielsk. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński. Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc. Montricher 1987

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