ABOUT

2LT Zygmunt Bogdan Czajkowski, Polish citizen, was the son of Jan Czajkowski and Michalina Czajkowska née Zielińska. Family think he was born on 21 January 1902.

Czajkowski graduated from a junior high school in Łódź in 1927 and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Warsaw in 1934 and and the a sanitary training for reserve forces in 1935. He was appointed second lieutenant on 1 January 1936 and assigned to the 74th Infantry Regiment, where he completed reserve exercises as a junior doctor in 1938.

In September 1939, when first Nazi Germany, and then its ally the Soviet Union attacked Poland, Czajkowski in the 12th Infantry Division.

Zygmunt Bogdan Czajkowski was a physician.

REFERENCES

For a list of "The Victims of the Katyń Massacre who were Murdered in Kharkov", see:

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofiary_zbrodni_katyńskiej_–_zamordowani_w_Charkowie

For a biogram of Zygmunt Bogdan Czajkowski see:

Jędrzej Tucholski (ed.). Charków. Księga Cmentarna Polskiego Cmentarza Wojennego (Kharkov. The Cemetery List of the Polish War Cemetery). Warszawa, 2003. ISBN 83-916663-5-2. (in Polish)

https://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/4863

https://katyn.ipn.gov.pl/kat/ludzie/ofiary/baza-wyszukiwarka/r20811363,CZAJKOWSKI.html

For a broader description of how the unmarked burial site was discovered by children what they found there, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piatykhatky,_Kharkiv_Oblast

For the honours prison guard Mitrofan Vasilievich Syromiatnikov received from Beria for his part in murdering the Polish officers, see:

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrofan_Syromiatnikow

For a description of the life of the Polish prisoners at the Starobielsk Camp see:

Czapski Józef. "Wspomnienia starobielskie" (in Polish); for a French translation see: Souvenirs de Starobielsk. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński. Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc. Montricher 1987

For a short documentary on the holocaust of the Polish officers and its historical background and its cover-up see:

"Katyn - WWII's Forgotten Massacre" by Mark Felton, 2021:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2djnWw751s

Written by Ivonna Nowicka, 2024,

In memory of Władysław Filar (Memorial ID 233907771)