April 18, 2008

Massacre of Poles in World War II

To the Editor:

Nina C. Ayoub's excellent piece on Anna M. Cienciala's book and Andrzej Wajda's film on the massacre of thousands of Polish prisoners by the Soviet Union in the Katyn Forest at the start of World War II ("Death in the Forest," The Chronicle Review, March 14) needs an addendum.

In the film, Wajda alludes to, but does not specifically mention, the fact that many of the Polish reserve officers — not only chaplains — executed at Katyn were Jews.

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