Franciszek Koper is one of the nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and policemen and intelligentsia reserve officers taken captive by the Soviet Union after its attack on Poland on 17 September 1939, made prisoners of war and then murdered in cold blood in April and May 1940 by the NKVD in a planned holocaust. Altogether, the NKVD executed almost half the Polish officer corps.
Franciszek Koper, Polish citizen, was the son of Weronika née Brodowska and Jan.
REFERENCES
For a list of "The Victims of the Katyń Massacre who were Murdered in Kalinin", see:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofiary_zbrodni_katyńskiej_–_zamordowani_w_Kalininie
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/10058
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, 2023
Franciszek Koper, Polish citizen, was the son of Weronika née Brodowska and Jan.
REFERENCES
For a list of "The Victims of the Katyń Massacre who were Murdered in Kalinin", see:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofiary_zbrodni_katyńskiej_–_zamordowani_w_Kalininie
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/10058
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, 2023
Franciszek Koper is one of the nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and policemen and intelligentsia reserve officers taken captive by the Soviet Union after its attack on Poland on 17 September 1939, made prisoners of war and then murdered in cold blood in April and May 1940 by the NKVD in a planned holocaust. Altogether, the NKVD executed almost half the Polish officer corps.
Franciszek Koper, Polish citizen, was the son of Weronika née Brodowska and Jan.
REFERENCES
For a list of "The Victims of the Katyń Massacre who were Murdered in Kalinin", see:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofiary_zbrodni_katyńskiej_–_zamordowani_w_Kalininie
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/10058
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, 2023
Franciszek Koper, Polish citizen, was the son of Weronika née Brodowska and Jan.
REFERENCES
For a list of "The Victims of the Katyń Massacre who were Murdered in Kalinin", see:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofiary_zbrodni_katyńskiej_–_zamordowani_w_Kalininie
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/10058
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, 2023
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