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Encyclopedia > Kozielsk

Kozielsk is a village near Smolensk in Soviet Union. During WW2, the camp for Polish POW officers. 99% of the detained persons, where subsequently massacred during Katyn massacre.


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Dr Ze'ev Yunis: The Old Home Town, Chapter 2 (2169 words)
The Kozielsk region extended far beyond the forest.
Actually, only several Jewish families lived in Kozielsk and their main source of income was not from agriculture.
It was here in Kozielsk that the Mlawian townsfolk for the first time in their lives saw Jews with sickles reaping wheat in the fields.
THE KATYN WOODS MASSACRE (1109 words)
It was at three particular prisons in the confines of Russia that the beginning of the Katyn woods massacre came into being.
Six generals were at Kozielsk alone, a heavy concentration of the commanders of a defeated army.
The NKVD denied any knowledge of the whereabouts of the soldiers and blamed the murders of the Polish soldiers on the Germans, who they said were the ones who killed the Poles.
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