Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz is one of the no less than 21,768 Polish military officers and intelligentsia 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. There were three main places where the highly secret murders were committed:
Katyń (in the forest; ca 4 400 Polish prisoners of war); Miednoie (the NKVD district prison; ca. 6,300 people) and Kharkov (local seat of the NKVD; ca. 3 800 Polish POWs). In all, the NKVD executed almost half the Polish officer corps. Mention of the crime was forbidden both in the Soviet Union and in the Polish People's Republic (1947-89); as well as Bykownia (ca 3,435 Poles).
BIOGRAM
2LT of the infantry reserve forces Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz was Polish and for being Polish he was murdered. He was the son of Ignacy and Rozalia née Swatoń. He was an economist.
WW2
In 1939 he was commander of the gendarmerie platoon of the 35th reserve infantry division. He participated in the defence of his home city of Lwów against first the German and then the Soviet invador.
Bogdanowicz was one of the at least 21,768 Polish men, military officers and soldiers of reserve forces and intelligentsia, to be arrested in 1939 by the NKVD in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Poland of 17 September 1939 (just 17 days after the German invasion from the West). Bogdanowicz was in a group of 4 thousand fellow prisoners taken by the NKVD to a Soviet prison camp for Polish prisoners of war at Starobielsk. The camp was situated in an old convent turned prison by the antireligious Bolshevic regime.
Somewhere between 5 April and the 12 May 1940, Stanisław Bogdanowicz was taken to the Regional Head of the NKVD in Kharkiv, led - or maybe pushed - into a cellar and unbeknowest - but maybe already suspecting - shot in the head from behind. For being young and capable of combat. For being Polish.
3 739 inmates from the Starobielsk Camp were murdered in cold blood in the same way. The aim of the NKVD and of the Soviet regime was to hide any trace of the massacre. Therefore, prison guards were ordered to dispose of the bodies in a forest to the north of Kharkov called the Pyatykhatky Forest.
The officers from the Starobielsk Camp were executed at the same time as the other Polish officers in the Katyń forest and in other places. Altogether, the Soviet Union murdered at least 21 768 Poles in this way. This mass murder is called the Katyń Crime (Zbrodnia Katyńska) or the Katyń Massacre, although it should be called the Katyń Holocaust.
The authorities of the Soviet Union kept denying any responsible for the atrocity for half a century (1940–1990), until the last but one year of its existence. Only on 13 April 1990 they admitted that "it was one of the great crimes of the Stalinist regime".
The exhumation started in 1991 and lasted until 1995. The writer is not aware when exactly Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz body was brought back to rememberance and in which one of the unmarked graves holding between 160 and 1050 (the biggest one) bodies.
At the place were the body of Stanisław Dziurzyński and of the other victims of the holocaust rested for 51 to 55 years there is a memorial, now.
A proper resting place was created in Kharkov for the victims of this crime only in 2000. 2LT Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz is one of the 4 302 officers of the Polish Army and Polish civilians to have found belated rest at the Kharkov Polish War Cemetery.
May he Rest in Peace
(Ivonna Nowicka, Jan. 2022)
REFERENCES
For a biogram Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz 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)
and
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/4620
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
(as of 2021.11.12 only in Polish)
For a 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
(as of 2022.01 – only in Polish)
Katyń (in the forest; ca 4 400 Polish prisoners of war); Miednoie (the NKVD district prison; ca. 6,300 people) and Kharkov (local seat of the NKVD; ca. 3 800 Polish POWs). In all, the NKVD executed almost half the Polish officer corps. Mention of the crime was forbidden both in the Soviet Union and in the Polish People's Republic (1947-89); as well as Bykownia (ca 3,435 Poles).
BIOGRAM
2LT of the infantry reserve forces Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz was Polish and for being Polish he was murdered. He was the son of Ignacy and Rozalia née Swatoń. He was an economist.
WW2
In 1939 he was commander of the gendarmerie platoon of the 35th reserve infantry division. He participated in the defence of his home city of Lwów against first the German and then the Soviet invador.
Bogdanowicz was one of the at least 21,768 Polish men, military officers and soldiers of reserve forces and intelligentsia, to be arrested in 1939 by the NKVD in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Poland of 17 September 1939 (just 17 days after the German invasion from the West). Bogdanowicz was in a group of 4 thousand fellow prisoners taken by the NKVD to a Soviet prison camp for Polish prisoners of war at Starobielsk. The camp was situated in an old convent turned prison by the antireligious Bolshevic regime.
Somewhere between 5 April and the 12 May 1940, Stanisław Bogdanowicz was taken to the Regional Head of the NKVD in Kharkiv, led - or maybe pushed - into a cellar and unbeknowest - but maybe already suspecting - shot in the head from behind. For being young and capable of combat. For being Polish.
3 739 inmates from the Starobielsk Camp were murdered in cold blood in the same way. The aim of the NKVD and of the Soviet regime was to hide any trace of the massacre. Therefore, prison guards were ordered to dispose of the bodies in a forest to the north of Kharkov called the Pyatykhatky Forest.
The officers from the Starobielsk Camp were executed at the same time as the other Polish officers in the Katyń forest and in other places. Altogether, the Soviet Union murdered at least 21 768 Poles in this way. This mass murder is called the Katyń Crime (Zbrodnia Katyńska) or the Katyń Massacre, although it should be called the Katyń Holocaust.
The authorities of the Soviet Union kept denying any responsible for the atrocity for half a century (1940–1990), until the last but one year of its existence. Only on 13 April 1990 they admitted that "it was one of the great crimes of the Stalinist regime".
The exhumation started in 1991 and lasted until 1995. The writer is not aware when exactly Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz body was brought back to rememberance and in which one of the unmarked graves holding between 160 and 1050 (the biggest one) bodies.
At the place were the body of Stanisław Dziurzyński and of the other victims of the holocaust rested for 51 to 55 years there is a memorial, now.
A proper resting place was created in Kharkov for the victims of this crime only in 2000. 2LT Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz is one of the 4 302 officers of the Polish Army and Polish civilians to have found belated rest at the Kharkov Polish War Cemetery.
May he Rest in Peace
(Ivonna Nowicka, Jan. 2022)
REFERENCES
For a biogram Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz 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)
and
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/4620
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
(as of 2021.11.12 only in Polish)
For a 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
(as of 2022.01 – only in Polish)
Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz is one of the no less than 21,768 Polish military officers and intelligentsia 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. There were three main places where the highly secret murders were committed:
Katyń (in the forest; ca 4 400 Polish prisoners of war); Miednoie (the NKVD district prison; ca. 6,300 people) and Kharkov (local seat of the NKVD; ca. 3 800 Polish POWs). In all, the NKVD executed almost half the Polish officer corps. Mention of the crime was forbidden both in the Soviet Union and in the Polish People's Republic (1947-89); as well as Bykownia (ca 3,435 Poles).
BIOGRAM
2LT of the infantry reserve forces Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz was Polish and for being Polish he was murdered. He was the son of Ignacy and Rozalia née Swatoń. He was an economist.
WW2
In 1939 he was commander of the gendarmerie platoon of the 35th reserve infantry division. He participated in the defence of his home city of Lwów against first the German and then the Soviet invador.
Bogdanowicz was one of the at least 21,768 Polish men, military officers and soldiers of reserve forces and intelligentsia, to be arrested in 1939 by the NKVD in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Poland of 17 September 1939 (just 17 days after the German invasion from the West). Bogdanowicz was in a group of 4 thousand fellow prisoners taken by the NKVD to a Soviet prison camp for Polish prisoners of war at Starobielsk. The camp was situated in an old convent turned prison by the antireligious Bolshevic regime.
Somewhere between 5 April and the 12 May 1940, Stanisław Bogdanowicz was taken to the Regional Head of the NKVD in Kharkiv, led - or maybe pushed - into a cellar and unbeknowest - but maybe already suspecting - shot in the head from behind. For being young and capable of combat. For being Polish.
3 739 inmates from the Starobielsk Camp were murdered in cold blood in the same way. The aim of the NKVD and of the Soviet regime was to hide any trace of the massacre. Therefore, prison guards were ordered to dispose of the bodies in a forest to the north of Kharkov called the Pyatykhatky Forest.
The officers from the Starobielsk Camp were executed at the same time as the other Polish officers in the Katyń forest and in other places. Altogether, the Soviet Union murdered at least 21 768 Poles in this way. This mass murder is called the Katyń Crime (Zbrodnia Katyńska) or the Katyń Massacre, although it should be called the Katyń Holocaust.
The authorities of the Soviet Union kept denying any responsible for the atrocity for half a century (1940–1990), until the last but one year of its existence. Only on 13 April 1990 they admitted that "it was one of the great crimes of the Stalinist regime".
The exhumation started in 1991 and lasted until 1995. The writer is not aware when exactly Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz body was brought back to rememberance and in which one of the unmarked graves holding between 160 and 1050 (the biggest one) bodies.
At the place were the body of Stanisław Dziurzyński and of the other victims of the holocaust rested for 51 to 55 years there is a memorial, now.
A proper resting place was created in Kharkov for the victims of this crime only in 2000. 2LT Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz is one of the 4 302 officers of the Polish Army and Polish civilians to have found belated rest at the Kharkov Polish War Cemetery.
May he Rest in Peace
(Ivonna Nowicka, Jan. 2022)
REFERENCES
For a biogram Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz 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)
and
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/4620
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
(as of 2021.11.12 only in Polish)
For a 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
(as of 2022.01 – only in Polish)
Katyń (in the forest; ca 4 400 Polish prisoners of war); Miednoie (the NKVD district prison; ca. 6,300 people) and Kharkov (local seat of the NKVD; ca. 3 800 Polish POWs). In all, the NKVD executed almost half the Polish officer corps. Mention of the crime was forbidden both in the Soviet Union and in the Polish People's Republic (1947-89); as well as Bykownia (ca 3,435 Poles).
BIOGRAM
2LT of the infantry reserve forces Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz was Polish and for being Polish he was murdered. He was the son of Ignacy and Rozalia née Swatoń. He was an economist.
WW2
In 1939 he was commander of the gendarmerie platoon of the 35th reserve infantry division. He participated in the defence of his home city of Lwów against first the German and then the Soviet invador.
Bogdanowicz was one of the at least 21,768 Polish men, military officers and soldiers of reserve forces and intelligentsia, to be arrested in 1939 by the NKVD in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Poland of 17 September 1939 (just 17 days after the German invasion from the West). Bogdanowicz was in a group of 4 thousand fellow prisoners taken by the NKVD to a Soviet prison camp for Polish prisoners of war at Starobielsk. The camp was situated in an old convent turned prison by the antireligious Bolshevic regime.
Somewhere between 5 April and the 12 May 1940, Stanisław Bogdanowicz was taken to the Regional Head of the NKVD in Kharkiv, led - or maybe pushed - into a cellar and unbeknowest - but maybe already suspecting - shot in the head from behind. For being young and capable of combat. For being Polish.
3 739 inmates from the Starobielsk Camp were murdered in cold blood in the same way. The aim of the NKVD and of the Soviet regime was to hide any trace of the massacre. Therefore, prison guards were ordered to dispose of the bodies in a forest to the north of Kharkov called the Pyatykhatky Forest.
The officers from the Starobielsk Camp were executed at the same time as the other Polish officers in the Katyń forest and in other places. Altogether, the Soviet Union murdered at least 21 768 Poles in this way. This mass murder is called the Katyń Crime (Zbrodnia Katyńska) or the Katyń Massacre, although it should be called the Katyń Holocaust.
The authorities of the Soviet Union kept denying any responsible for the atrocity for half a century (1940–1990), until the last but one year of its existence. Only on 13 April 1990 they admitted that "it was one of the great crimes of the Stalinist regime".
The exhumation started in 1991 and lasted until 1995. The writer is not aware when exactly Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz body was brought back to rememberance and in which one of the unmarked graves holding between 160 and 1050 (the biggest one) bodies.
At the place were the body of Stanisław Dziurzyński and of the other victims of the holocaust rested for 51 to 55 years there is a memorial, now.
A proper resting place was created in Kharkov for the victims of this crime only in 2000. 2LT Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz is one of the 4 302 officers of the Polish Army and Polish civilians to have found belated rest at the Kharkov Polish War Cemetery.
May he Rest in Peace
(Ivonna Nowicka, Jan. 2022)
REFERENCES
For a biogram Antoni Eugeniusz Bogdanowicz 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)
and
http://ksiegicmentarne.muzeumkatynskie.pl/wpis/4620
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
(as of 2021.11.12 only in Polish)
For a 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
(as of 2022.01 – only in Polish)
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