{"id":800,"date":"2026-04-26T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/?p=800"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:37:22","slug":"the-victims-of-the-katyn-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/hold-ofiarom-zbrodni-katynskiej\/","title":{"rendered":"Homage to the Victims of the Katyn Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is with great pride that we share the news that a delegation from Eliza Orzeszkowa Language School in London (Szko\u0142a J\u0119zykowa im. Elizy Orzeszkowej w Londynie) represented our community at the commemorations honouring the victims of the Katyn massacre.<\/p>

The day began with Holy Mass at the Polish Garrison Church of St Andrew Bobola in west London, during which our young delegates had the opportunity to view relics recovered from the Katyn graves. We then proceeded to Gunnersbury Cemetery, where our delegation laid flowers at the Katyn Memorial on behalf of the entire school community.<\/p>

After the ceremony, we had the honour of speaking with Capt. Eugeniusz Niedzielski (codename \u201cNead\u201d) \u2014 the 103-year-old soldier of the 1st Polish Armoured Division of General Stanis\u0142aw Maczek, and the last living veteran of that legendary formation. Our students also had the privilege of taking a commemorative photograph with Jerzy Boczkowski, Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires a.i. of the Republic of Poland to the United Kingdom, and with numerous representatives of the leading Polish diaspora organisations.<\/p>

The Katyn massacre and the Katyn lie form part of the required content for the A-level examination \u2014 which made this event all the more meaningful and valuable. It allowed our students to come face to face with living history, to pay personal tribute to the victims, and to deepen the knowledge gained in the classroom through a direct encounter with an eyewitness of those times and a site of particular significance to the Polish community in the United Kingdom.<\/p>

We must never let their memory fade.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Z nieskrywan\u0105 rado\u015bci\u0105 informujemy, \u017ce delegacja Szko\u0142y J\u0119zykowej im. Elizy Orzeszkowej w Londynie reprezentowa\u0142a nasz\u0105 spo\u0142eczno\u015b\u0107 na uroczysto\u015bciach obchod\u00f3w pami\u0119ci ofiar zbrodni katy\u0144skiej. Wyjazd rozpocz\u0105\u0142 si\u0119 od Mszy \u015awi\u0119tej w Ko\u015bciele Garnizonowym pw. \u015bw. Andrzeja Boboli w zachodnim Londynie, podczas kt\u00f3rej nasi m\u0142odzi przedstawiciele i przedstawicielki mogli zobaczy\u0107 relikwie wydobyte z grob\u00f3w katy\u0144skich. Nast\u0119pnie udali\u015bmy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orzeszkowaschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}