Katyn Page #6

We have much more time

than the Germans.

Maybe so.

Just tell me where I am.

In Poland?

Take her away.

Nika!

- Father's coming.

- No. You're again imagining things.

Yes?

- This is for you.

- Yes?

We don't return mementos

from Katyn to the families now.

- When I learned that the major...

- What major?

The one who asked

to give it to you shot himself.

He shot himself.

So I decided to bring it.

Kozielsk, April 7, '40.

For two days they've

been deporting us.

Where and why?

Nobody knows.

After a search at 4:55 p.m.

our Polish time 2:55 p.m.

we left the walls and barbed wires

of the Kozielsk camp.

We were put in prison carriages.

I'd never seen such carriages.

They say that 50% of passenger

cars in the USSR are prison ones.

8:
30 a.m. Departure from

Kozielsk westward.

9:
45 a.m. Jelnia Station.

I'm along with a major,

a colonel, and a few captains.

Twelve altogether

with room for seven at the most.

Judging by the pieces

of paper we found,

we get off outside Smolensk

about 1 0 km. We'll see.

We must be going to Smolensk.

Gniezdovo Station.

Lieutenant Pilot,

April 1 0, 1 940.

4:
45 a.m. they wake us up

in the prison cars.

Now by trucks...

Arrival at Gniezdovo,:

402 km away from Moscow.

Two Black Marias and

a truck for things.

Take off your belt.

Next.

Family name, patronymic, rank.

The general's documents.

Born April 2, 1 892.

It checks out.

Take him away.

Next.

5:
00 a.m. We leave

in a Black Maria.

They brought us to a forest,

a kind of spa. A thorough search.

They didn't find

my wedding ring.

They took away my belt,

penknife, and watch.

It showed 8:
30 a.m.,

our Polish time 6:30 a.m.

What will happen to us?

Our Father

Thou art in heaven...

Thy will be done on Earth

as well as in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread...

...Forgive us our trespasses...

...as we forgive those

who trespass against us...

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