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  Katyn Massacre - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
As early as September 19, 1939, the First Rank Commissar of the State Security, Lavrentii Pavlovich Beria (the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs) called the Board of the NKVD of the USSR for Prisoners of War and the Interned (Head: State Security Captain, Pyotr K. Soprunenko) ordered to set up camps for Polish prisoners.
These were: Jukhnovo (rail station of Babynino), Yuzhe (Talitsy), Kozelsk, Kozelshchyna, Oranki, Ostashkov (Stolbnyi Island on Seliger Lake near Ostashkov), Putyvli (rail station of Tetkino), Starobelsk, Vologod (rail station of Zaenikevo) and Gryazovets camps.
In the period from April 3 to May 19 1940 about 22,000 POWs and prisoners were murdered: about 6000 POWs from the Ostashkov camp, about 4,000 POWs from the Starobielsk camp, about 4500 POWs from the Kozielsk camp and about 7000 prisoners in Western parts of Belarus and Ukraine.
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 The Polish War Cemetery in Miednoje
Moreover, Fr Wojdat is glad to see every Polish group that visits the cemetery in Miednoje or the former prison in Ostashkov and willingly invites pilgrims for prayer and meeting in the shrine that is being built in Tver.
The next day I had the chance to visit the ruined monastery on Stolbnyi Island (Nilova Pustyn) near Ostashkov, the hermitage of St Nilus Stolbnyi, who came here from the monastery of Krypiec, and lived there as a hermit for 27 years (d.
The tsar agreed to open a monastery in 1594, which developed for the glory of God and service to people for 300 years until the Bolshevik barbarians came in 1917.
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Today the former name of the locality, Tver, has Been restored.
The increased-severity camp; which served as a confinement place for State Police, Border Guards, Prison Guards, Military Police, the 2nd Division of the Polish Army Staff, and employees of the judiciary, was located 11 km away from Ostashkov on Stolbnyi Island on Lake Seliger on the premises of the former orthodox monastery of Nilova Pustyn.
Undernourished, lodged in cold, unheated monastic accommodation, the Polish prisoners every day were losing their strengths.
www.coldwarhistory.us /Cold_War/Katyn_Massacre/Miednoje__Katyn.htm   (2961 words)

  
 Katyn Massacre: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
[For more facts about this topic, click this link] (Stolbnyi Island on Seliger Lake near Ostashkov), Putyvli (rail station of Tetkino), Starobelsk, Vologod (rail station of Zaenikevo) and Gryazovets camps.
When Earle formally requested permission to publish his findings, the President gave him a written order to desist.
Earle was reassigned and spent the rest of the war in American Samoa A United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa
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