Ceremony at the Katyn Memorial in the Judean Hills outside Jerusalem on April 13, 2023

A short rain swept ceremony was held today at the Katyn Memorial in the Judean Hills outside Jerusalem to mark Katyn Day, a day of remembrance of the Katyn massacres committed by the Soviet secret police in April-May 1940 during which almost 22,000 Polish officers were murdered whilst prisoners of war. Amongst the murdered officers, were several hundred Polish Jewish officers. Present at the ceremony were representatives of the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv including the First Secretary and the Defense Attache as well as Giora Bar Nir, who lost a father, Lieutenant Emanuel Rabiner, in Katyn and Luc Albinski, the President of the Katyn Foundation for Jewish Families.