A crowd of over 100 people viewed the Oscar-nominated film “Katyn” at the Central Library in downtown Buffalo this Sunday.
The screening of the film coincided with the closing of the traveling exhibit entitled “Katyn. Massacre. Politics. Morality” on view at the library through Monday morning, Oct. 18.
The exhibit contains a panel of U.S. born victims of the massacre, in which over 20,000 Polish officers and other leaders were murdered by the Soviets in 1940. Two of the massacre victims were Buffalo natives, Reserve Lt. Henryk Franciszek Adamski and Sgt. Major Wincenty Blaszak. A copy of Adamski’s baptismal certificate next to his photo lists him as living at 919 Clinton St. in Buffalo and having been baptized at St. Peter and Paul Church.
A former Buffalo resident now living in Rochester named Robert Johnson, noticed a photo of the exhibit on the internet, and after checking his family tree, realized that Henryk Adamski was his mother’s first cousin. Johnson and his cousin Nancy showed family pictures and told stories about their murdered relative.
(Andrew Golebiowski is Parish Council President of Corpus Christi Church and Founder of the Polish Legacy Project.)
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