„The Destruction of the Polish Elite, Operation AB – Katyń” – exhibition in English, prepared by the Public Education Office of the Institute of National Remembrance, was presented until 6 May in the gallery of The Polish Social & Cultural Association in London, at King Street 238-246. The Exhibition opening took place on 17 April 2011.
The Exhibition Opening was combined with celebration of the 71st anniversary of the Katyń Massacre, organized by Polish Ex-Combatants Association and the Katyń Families Association in the West at the Katyń Memorial at Gunnersbury Cemetery in London.
The opening and the commemorating ceremonies were attended by the following representatives of the Institute of National Remembrance: Agnieszka Rudzińska, Deputy Director of the Public Education Office, Anna Piekarska and Karol Madaj.
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Exhibition „The Destruction of the Polish Elite. Operation AB — Katyń” is divided into several thematic blocks. In the first, the Soviet-German political and military alliance in the years 1939-1941 is shown, as well as a joint invasion of Poland, its partition and occupation, during which the cooperative powers introduced the genocidal policy towards the citizens of the conquered country. In the next blocks there are presented both criminal operations of 1940, first the Katyń Massacre, and then the AB Operation. There are reconstructed preparations for the crime, its course and the major culprits. Authors of the exhibition tried as well to show some profiles of the victims, including the families of Czarnkowie, Wnukowie, Dowbor–Muśniccy and Chrzanowscy, which were, victims of both aggressors. The recapitulation of the exhibition is an attempt to show the balance of the genocidal operations’ , depicting their geographical range and the fact of a lack of a punishment for the vast majority of the Third Reich and the USSR officers, who were responsible for crimes, and particularly the lack of a punishment for the perpetrators of the Katyń Massacre.
