Katyn…

This upcoming event in NYC will discuss the recent discovery of vital testimony from a U.S. officer who in 1943 was forced by the Nazis to watch as they exhumed thousands of Polish officers who had been killed on Stalin’s orders in the Katyn forest. Krystyna Piorkowska uncovered the Paris-dated testimony–given by former American prisoner of war Lt. Col. John H. Van Vliet Jr. on May 10, 1945–in the U.S. National Archives, along with other World War II documents from the U.S. Embassy in Paris.