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Siberia Syberia Сибирь Sibirien Sibir

This side of the pediment - the east side - has a bronze relief depicts the starvation of Poles sent to Siberia.

The Katy 1940 - Siberia 1939 Memorial commemorates the murder of thousands of Polish POWs in the Spring of 1940 in Katyn and the two million Polish civilians who were forcibly relocated to Siberia where they perished.

A 34 feet tall statue of a polish cavalry officer, gagged and bound, impaled in the back by a bayoneted rifle, stands atop a granite base containing Katyn soil. The statue is made of cast bronze weighing 6 tons on a granite base weighing 120 tons. The Memorial was created by Andrzej Pitynski
and was unveiled on May 19, 1991 in Exchange Place in Jersey City, NJ.

After the September 11 attack, a 9/11 memorial plaque was added to the west side of the memorial's base.

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The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD in April–May 1940. It was based on Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. 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."

Exchange Place - Jersey City, New Jersey - Google Map -- Katyn Memorial in Jersey City

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Monday, July 4, 2011

Siberia Syberia Сибирь Sibirien Sibir

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