Name: "Children of the Katyn Massacre" Price: 115.00 PLN

Price 39,99 $ This book, from the ranks of the literature of fact, is the first of its kind to portray the lives of the children of Polish prisoners-of-war murdered during the Katyn genocide at the beginning of World War II on orders of Stalin and the Soviet government. Teresa Kaczorowska was the first to seek out a representative group of these children, now quite elderly, who were scattered throughout the world. She found them not only in Poland but also in the United States, Canada, Lithuania, Ukraine and Israel. They opened their hearts to her in conversations which bore fruit as eighteen journalistic accounts, each one stunningly different from the others. These accounts reveal much about their lives as orphans, their loss of home and often life in exile as well as the Allied cover-up of their fathers? murder. The narratives reveal also how, after their fathers? murder, though they had to live in the dark and officially secret shadow of Katyn, they never looked for vengeance but only justice.