Medallion images kindly sent to me by Dale Kornfeld

The silver medallion shows Polish people being forced into a rail car marked SYBIR at its top, by a Soviet soldier with a rifle. It measures 7.06 cm high, 7.06 cm wide, & 5.3 mm thick; it weighs 201.0 grams.

The brass medallion shows Polish soldiers being murdered at Katyn. It measures 7.16 cm high, 7.21 cm wide, & 5.6 mm thick; it weighs 209.2 grams.

Both medallions are dated 1988, just as Gorbachev gave up on Poland as a true member of the Socialist Camp, but before the Wall came down in Germany.

SYBIR = SIBERIA

PAMIECI POLAKOW OFIAR STALINOWSKICH REPRESJI

= IN MEMORY OF POLISH VICTIMS OF STALIN'S REPRESSION

JESZCZE POLSKA NIE ZGINE = POLAND IS NOT YET LOST

Artykuły o zbrodni Katyńskiej w tej witrynie (po polsku i angielsku). Articles on this site about the Katyn Forest Massacre [in English and Polish]. "Doing justice to the dead." "Sprawiedliwość dla zmarłych." "Lost Souls." "Zagubione dusze." "Separate memories, separate sorrows." "Odrębne wspomnienia. Odrębne smutki." "The Soviet memory hole." "Podróż w Sowiecką Dziurę w Pamięci."

"KATYŃ. MODUS OPERANDI" Michał Synoradzki, Jacek Grodecki, Victoria Plewak. [po polsku]" Return to the opening page. Strona Główna (po polsku) Katyn related sites and LINKS. Email me.

Stalin's order to shoot the Poles. A map of the Katyn massacre site. Katyn related books and videos. Information about the photos used in this site. Katyn photos which people have sent me. 1943 Nazi photos of exhumations in Katyn Forest.

Polish language Katyn Forest Massacre lesson from the Association of Polish Teachers Abroad. The Anglo-Polish agreement of 25 August 1939. Early German/Soviet co-operation: the Treaty of Rapallo. The rebellion of Russian troops at Courtine in 1917. Second Lieutenant Janina Dowbor Musnicki Lewandowska, the Polish woman pilot murdered at Katyn by the Soviets. A copy of the "legalistic" pretext Tito's "communists" used to murder Professor Doctor Ljudevit Jurak, on 10 June 1945.