FROM THE AUTHOR:
The book “Oława Augustowska” brings closer to the not-known, and the largest “in liberated Poland” and the completely unexplained Stalinist crime of July 1945, called Oława Augustowska, Oława Lipcowa, or “little Katyn” or “another Katyn”. It was made by about 45,000 regular troops Red Army and units of the 62nd Division of interior Army NKVD, assisted by UB, MO and 160 Polish soldiers 1. The Prague Infantry Regiment. These forces entered Augustów Forest in July 1945 and its periphery and conducted a wide-ranging pacification action. More than 7,000 people suspected of active in the independency underground were detained, who were imprisoned in respective tens of places in Augustov district, Suwałki district, Sejneński district, as well as Sokólski district. The Soviets created alleged for them. filter camps: in barns, pigs, warehouses and sheds of local hosts. They were interrogated, beaten and tortured - by methods produced in Stalinist apparatus of cruelty and terror.[...]
To this day it is unknown what happened to a large number of missing Poles without the news - how they were liquidated, where, in which places the corpse was buried. Until now, it has been reported that the number of victims of the Augustine Siege is 592 The IPN branch in Białystok is besides investigating in this direction. However, in the light of fresh research, and especially since the discovery of secret cryptograms - by Nikita Petrov of the Memorial Association in Moscow - it is known that there have been more victims, even about 2,000.
It was only now that I tried to approximate this crime with documentary reports of 7 people from Augustovian, Suwalski and Sejneński districts. They all live, I have met them personally, sometimes repeatedly. Among them is an underground soldier of independency from Augustowska Forest, erstwhile juvenile guerrilla Marian Tananis of Sejn (Year 1929), sentenced after the war to 15 years of communist prisons, but saved from Oława. The remainder of my heroes are members of the families of the victims of the Oblast – daughters and sons and siblings of the murdered. [...]
Seven documentary reports, bearing photographs, archival documents, as well as contemporary photographs, based on facts and authentic experiences of circumstantial people - checked besides in historical sources, local archives, household materials - have extraordinary pronunciation. [...] The book makes us aware of the unification that the people of the region affected by the crime inactive remember, endure and wait for its explanation and to uncover the pits of death of their loved ones. [...]
Fragments of texts of celebrated historians from this book:
Nikita Petrov, "Memorial", Moscow.
[...] In the early 1990s, Russia's Chief Military Prosecutor's Office collected materials and conducted its own investigation into this Stalinist crime, but unfortunately it did not decide to announce the truth. In the authoritative reply, which was given to Poland in January 1995, the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office shamefully withheld this execution without any court-martial of the parts detained during the Siege, despite confirming the arrest by the authorities of the counterintelligence of S.M.S.I.S. 592 Polish citizens. So far, Russian leaders have not officially confessed to the execution and have not called the manhunt a crime. There was no reliable investigation, with clear and clear answers where Poles were arrested. This crime was decided to stay silent. To the Polish side, and to the families of the victims of the Augustów Siege, Russia did not supply a complete list of those who “disappeared” and did not give any information about the place of the execution. [...]
Danuta and Zbigniew Kashlelow, historians from Augustov:
[...] The memory of the Augustowska circular must be carried further, made nationwide. We believe that Teresa Kaczorowska's coverage will contribute to this. Literary talent, the desire to benefit from the findings of historians, the sense of a sharp observer, connected with intellectual sense and, above all, with sensitivity, allowed the author to make interesting portraits of witnesses of past and give the stories an interesting form. [...]
