“Memorial to 20,000 Poles executed by Soviet agents in the Katyn Forest in Chicago”. Interview with W. Seweryn. Rozmowa z pomyslodawca i projektantem Pomnika Katynskiego w Chicago
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Members of Chicago’s Polish community have completed a nearly $300,000 memorial to the around 20,000 Poles executed by Soviet agents in the Katyn Forest during World War II .
The Chicago-based Alliance of Polish Clubs in the USA erected the Katyn monument. It was designed by a Polish artist Wojciech Seweryn with whom I conducted an interview about the monument building process.
The monument contains a cross and an angel made in the shape of Poland’s national emblem, a white eagle.
Those executed included Polish officers, intellectuals and priests. The massacre occurred in the spring of 1940 near Katyn, which is now in the former Soviet republic of Belarus.
Rozmowa z Wojciechem Sewerynem, przewodniczącym Komitetu Budowy Pomnika Katynskiego w Chicago. Pomnik ma upamietnic polskich oficerów, którzy zginęli z rąk sowieckich oprawców w Katyniu.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
I have been looking looking around for this type of info. Will you publish some a lot more in future? I’ll be grateful if you’ll.