POLAND 2010 SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PHILATELIC FOLDER: DAY OF COMMEMORATION IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE KATYN MASSACRE IN WW2
ISSUED: 7 APRIL 2010
THIS FOLDER CONTAINS A SPECIAL ENVELOPE (SEE SCAN 7), A NEVER HINGED MINT PERFORATED MINIATURE SHEET AND FDC (SCAN 2) WHICH HAVE FISCHER CATALOGUE NUMBER: Fi BLOK 224
THESE FOLDERS WERE ISSUED BY THE POLISH POST OFFICE AND WERE NOT EASILY AVAILABLE. THEY ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN SO DON'T MISS THE CHANCE TO OWN ONE.
THIS FOLDER IS WRITTEN IN THE ENGLISH AND POLISH LANGUAGES.
THESE FOLDERS ARE RARELY OFFERED FOR SALE. THEY ARE VERY ATTRACTIVE AND ARE PRODUCED TO A VERY COLLECTABLE HIGH QUALITY.
CONSIDERING THE ENORMOUS WORLDWIDE DEMAND FOR THIS TYPE OF ITEM, THEY WILL SOON BECOME A VERY RARE AND COLLECTABLE ITEM.
THIS WONDERFUL SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION FOLDER, IN MINT NEVER HINGED CONDITION, IS A MUST FOR EVERY SERIOUS POLAND, POLISH HISTORY, WW2, WORLD WAR II, WAR CRIMES, RUSSIA, USSR, MILITERIA, NKVD AND THEMATIC COLLECTOR AND WILL MAKE A BEAUTIFUL ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION.
Note: The miniature sheets may have different numbers. The picture shown is for reference purposes only.
The Katyn Forest Massacre, was a war crime mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD under the orders of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Politburo in April–May 1940.The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkov prisons and elsewhere. About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, 6,000 police officers, with the rest being Polish intelligentsia arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests."
Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in 1943.The revelation led to the end of diplomatic relations between Moscow and the London based Polish government-in-exile. The Soviet Union continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the perpetration of the killings by the NKVD.
The modern Polish investigation of the killings covered not only the massacre at Katyn forest, but also the other mass murders in surrounding areas. Polish organisations, such as the Katyn Committee and the Federation of Katyn Families, consider the victims murdered at the locations other than Katyn as part of the overall massacre.
