Funeral of the remains of the Katyn Crime Victims - 17.09
date:14 September 2025 Editor: Editorial
Attention!
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, on the 86th anniversary of the russian Union's attack on Poland and in the year of the celebration of the 85th anniversary of the Katyń Crime, in the Polish Military Department in Warsaw (Tługa 13/15 St.) at 11.00 a.m. a state ceremony with a ceremony of military remains of the Katyń Victims will begin.
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The ceremony ceremony and burial in the crypt of the Cathedral will be attended by representatives of the highest state authorities, the management of the National Memorial Institute and the gathered guests.
The event is organised by the Institute of National Memory. Due to the limited number of seats and safety requirements, access to the Cathedral will only be possible for those who receive written announcement and confirm their participation in the ceremonies.
All who would like to attend the celebrations to pay tribute to the Victims will be able to do so by participating in the ceremony before the Cathedral, where the tv will be set. In addition, the Institute of National Memory will broadcast the event on the IPNtv channel.
In the underground of the Field Department of the Polish Army will be laid in sixteen urns of 15 skulls and bone material of the Victims of Katyń Crime. 12 skulls were mined in 1991 during exhumation works in Kharkiv, and then sent to Poland for research. 3 skulls and bone material were located at the Katyn Museum. The full material was secured by the territory Attorneys of the Crime Investigation Commission against the Polish Nation in Warsaw for the ongoing investigation. The burial of the victims' temporal remains is possible in connection with the completion of their research.
An investigation into a case referred to as the Katyń Crimes – i.e. a case constituting a war crime and a crime against humanity, killings of no little than 21,768 Polish citizens carried out in the period from 5 March to an unestablished day and the period 1940 in the USSR by officials of that State, acting in the execution of the resolutions of the Political Committee of the All-Union Committee of the Communist organization (bolsheviks) in Moscow on 5 March 1940 – has been conducted by the Branch Crime Investigation Commission against the Polish Nation in Warsaw since 30 November 2004. It was initiated as a consequence of formal reports of a crime filed by associations bringing together relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre. The notorious cognition of Stalin's death and another high-ranking organization and state officials of the USSR liable for execution did not prevent the initiation of the Katyn investigation due to the fact that the circumstantial provisions of the Act on the Institute of National Memory in Article 45(4) order criminal proceedings even erstwhile it is known that the perpetrators of the crime are no longer alive. This regulation was introduced by the legislature in view of, among another things, the work to make amends to all victims of totalitarianism.
The event is organised by the Institute of National Memory. Due to the limited number of seats and safety requirements, access to the Cathedral will only be possible for those who receive written announcement and confirm their participation in the ceremonies.
All who would like to attend the celebrations to pay tribute to the Victims will be able to do so by participating in the ceremony before the Cathedral, where the tv will be set. In addition, the Institute of National Memory will broadcast the event on the IPNtv channel.
In the underground of the Field Department of the Polish Army will be laid in sixteen urns of 15 skulls and bone material of the Victims of Katyń Crime. 12 skulls were mined in 1991 during exhumation works in Kharkiv, and then sent to Poland for research. 3 skulls and bone material were located at the Katyn Museum. The full material was secured by the territory Attorneys of the Crime Investigation Commission against the Polish Nation in Warsaw for the ongoing investigation. The burial of the victims' temporal remains is possible in connection with the completion of their research.
An investigation into a case referred to as the Katyń Crimes – i.e. a case constituting a war crime and a crime against humanity, killings of no little than 21,768 Polish citizens carried out in the period from 5 March to an unestablished day and the period 1940 in the USSR by officials of that State, acting in the execution of the resolutions of the Political Committee of the All-Union Committee of the Communist organization (bolsheviks) in Moscow on 5 March 1940 – has been conducted by the Branch Crime Investigation Commission against the Polish Nation in Warsaw since 30 November 2004. It was initiated as a consequence of formal reports of a crime filed by associations bringing together relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre. The notorious cognition of Stalin's death and another high-ranking organization and state officials of the USSR liable for execution did not prevent the initiation of the Katyn investigation due to the fact that the circumstantial provisions of the Act on the Institute of National Memory in Article 45(4) order criminal proceedings even erstwhile it is known that the perpetrators of the crime are no longer alive. This regulation was introduced by the legislature in view of, among another things, the work to make amends to all victims of totalitarianism.
