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  • Surviving Katyń

  • Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth
  • By: Jane Rogoyska
  • Narrated by: Jane Rogoyska
  • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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Surviving Katyń

By: Jane Rogoyska
Narrated by: Jane Rogoyska
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The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses.

Committed in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly 50 years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi crime, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake - the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators - whose quest for the truth in the face of an inscrutable, unknowable, and utterly ruthless enemy came at great personal cost.

©2021 Jane Rogoyska (P)2021 W F Howes
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“A gripping reconstruction of one of the most gruesome and haunting crimes of the Second World War. Jane Rogoyska’s sensitive yet dispassionate use of the harrowing evidence provided by victims, perpetrators and survivors makes for utterly compelling reading, and lays bare its toxic legacy.” (Adam Zamoyski, author of Poland: A History)

“A well-researched and beautifully written narrative of the appalling fate of the Polish officers captured by the Soviets in 1939 and massacred in 1940. Through the testimony of the few survivors and the investigators, Jane Rogoyska brings to life the suffering of the Poles which continued for decades after the war as Soviet culpability for the crime was denied across the world.” (Halik Kochanski, author of The Eagle Unbowed)

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A well written history of my ancestors

That title isn't even hyperbole - my great grandfather, Antoni Swiercz, a veteran of the Polish-Soviet war, was one of the men executed in Katyn. Growing up, I had heard my grandmother's account of what happened to him insofar that he was arrested... but nothing beyond that.

Surviving Katyn does a wonderful job of illustrating the full history of the men arrested by the NKVD, and exposing the truth to the reader in the same way that the Polish people found out about it - long after relations "normalized".

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Beyond Riveting

The Katyn massacre is one of the most appalling crimes in history. This in-depth study provides all one could hope to know about the crime and the aftermath. It’s truly a marvel. Jane Rogoyska has outdone herself and she narrates it beautifully. What a work.

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