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CRIME AND (LACK OF) PUNISHMENT: Anna M. Cienciala, professor emerita of history, co-edited the new book "Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment." The 14,500 Polish army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians taken prisoner by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939 were held in three special NKVD camps and executed in three different places in spring 1940, of which the one in Katyn Forest is the most famous. Another 7,300 prisoners held in NKVD prisons in Ukraine and Belarus were also shot at this time, although many others diseappeared without trace. The murder of these Poles is among the most monstrous mass murders undertaken by any modern government." For 60 years after the atrocity, it was not only unpunished, it was not even acknowledged. "Katyn" presents 122 documents, with notes and introductions by Cienciala, which detail the Soviet killings, the elaborate cover-up, the admission of truth and the Katyn question in Soviet/Russian-Polish relations from 1941 to 2000.

KU HISTORY

KU is in the heart of the legislative session, lobbying for lawmakers' support of university needs. The process is a time-honored tradition. In 1909, Chancellor Frank Strong organized a 100th birthday banquet for Abraham Lincoln that brought legislators to campus as the culmination of a major campaign for increased state funding. For more, see www.kuhistory.com.