An international conference on the Katyń massacre of Polish officers in Soviet Russia is held in Washington’s Library of Congress.

Michal Kubicki reports

It is sponsored by the Kosciuszko Foundation and the American Center for Polish Culture, in cooperation with several institutions including  the U.S.  Helsinki Commission, the Cold War Studies Program at Harvard University, the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center in Moscow and the Warsaw-based Council to Protect the Memory of Struggle and Martyrdom. It provides a forum for political leaders, scholars and human rights advocates from Poland, Russia and the United States to discuss new details of the Katyn massacre and the future of Polish-Russian relations.