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Gdańsk commemorates victims of 1937-38 genocide perpetrated on Poles in USSR

 11.08.2024, 17:18
Deputy Mayor of Gdańsk Emilia Lodzińska at the commemorations of the 87th anniversary of the NKVD’s “Polish Operation”. Behind her, memorials to the victims of the “Polish Operation” (L) and those deported to Siberia in the aftermath of the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland between 1939 and 1956. Łostowicki Cemetery, Gdańsk, Poland, August 11, 2024. PAP/Marcin Gadomski
Deputy Mayor of Gdańsk Emilia Lodzińska at the commemorations of the 87th anniversary of the NKVD’s “Polish Operation”. Behind her, memorials to the victims of the “Polish Operation” (L) and those deported to Siberia in the aftermath of the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland between 1939 and 1956. Łostowicki Cemetery, Gdańsk, Poland, August 11, 2024. PAP/Marcin Gadomski

Of the 140,000 Poles that were arrested and sentenced, some 80% were executed.