Images kindly sent to me by Martin Urry.
Located North of the Johannesburg CBD just off the M1 motorway between Glenhove and Athol Oaklands offramps, the Katyn memorial is in the James & Ethel Grey park.
It is a very simple yet beautiful memorial, designed by Andrzej Romanowicz.
This page has pictures of the memorial and three inscriptions.
From the inscriptions you will see that, in addition to Katyn, the memorial remembers the Warsaw uprising as well as the South African Air Force members who dropped provisions during the uprising. Martin Urry's uncle was one of those men.
Churchill ordered the South Africans to fly from Italy, over enemy controlled territory, to Warsaw to drop supplies. This was a 12 hour flight without any fighter escort which resulted in terrible losses.
The Polish Association hold a service at the memorial early in September each year.
The copyright of these images remains the property of Martin Urry.
Front page
Katyn related sites and LINKS
The text of the order to shoot the Poles
A map of the Katyn massacre site
Katyn related books and videos
Articles about the Katyn Massacre on this site.
"Doing justice to the dead"
"Separate memories, separate sorrows"
"Lost Souls"
"The Soviet memory hole"
The Anglo-Polish agreement of 25 August 1939
A page which explains the photos used in this site
Katyn related photos which people have sent me
Information on the rebellion of Russian troops at Courtine in 1917
Early German/Soviet co-operation: the Treaty of Rapallo
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