An exhibition entitled Katyń: genocide, politics, morality is on show at the James R. Thompson Center in downtown Chicago.

The show includes a selection of photographs and documents on all aspects of the massacre of Polish officers by Stalin’s NKVD police in Soviet Russia in 1940.

The exhibition was prepared by the Polish Council for the Protection of the Sites of Struggle and Martyrdom.

One of the exhibition’s co-authors, Andrzej Przewoznik, also Director of the Council, was among the victims of the plane crash which killed the Polish presidential couple and 94 other people on their way to Katyn for the 70th anniversary ceremony of the massacre there.

In May the same exhibition was shown at the Library of Congress in Washington. (mk/jb)