IPN: On the Ukrainian portal was awarded the Virtuti Militari of the Katyn crime victim

On 1 of the Ukrainian net portals there was an offer to sale the Virtuti Militari Order of War, which was awarded to Captain Julius Roman Heinzl, an officer murdered by the NKVD in the spring of 1940 – the Institute of National Memory reported present on portal X.

‘The number on the order allows to identify the decorated. This is Captain Julius Roman Heinzel, a descendant of Łódź-deserved factories from Germany, the hero of the war with the Bolsheviks" - explained the entry.

He commanded 1 of the squadrons of the legendary 16th Ulanów Wielkopolska Regiment. For his valor in the battlefield, he was awarded the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari Military Military Order, the Memorial Medal for the War 1918-1921 and the 10th anniversary Medal of Recovered Independence.

"He returned to active military service in September 1939. Like thousands of another reserve officers, he went to russian captivity. In the spring of 1940, he was transported from the camp in Starobielsk to Kharkiv, murdered in the basements of the NKWD prison and buried close the village of Piatichatki. His destiny divided about 3800 Polish officers" – he emphasized.

Captain Heinzel rests on the open 17 June 2000 Cemetery of Victims of Totalitarianism in Kharkov. "The state of the order indicates his uncovering while searching for victims of the crime. The IPN is protesting the morally reprehensive commercialisation of 1 of the largest russian crimes committed during planet War II" - noted.

"We call on the owner of the award to give the priceless souvenir to the Polish authorities and to the administration of the portal to immediately terminate the auction. The place of priceless testimonies of past is in collections of memorial institutions. The memory of the victims cannot be traded. The photographs preserved in the collections of the Central Military Archive show the discrimination of Captain Heinzl," the IPN added.