19th Katyn Shadow March
On 12 April 2026 at 3:00 p.m., approximately 350 historical re-enactors set off from the National Museum (Aleje Jerozolimskie 3) to take part in the 19th Katyń Shadow March. The procession moved through the streets of Warsaw along the Royal Route and across the Old Town, commemorating the 22,000 Polish citizens murdered by Soviet forces in 1940 in Katyn, Kharkiv, Tver, Kyiv and other execution sites.
During scheduled stops, the names of fallen Polish officers were read aloud, and the tragic fate of the Katyn chaplains was recalled. The march concluded at a site of deep symbolic significance—the Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East on Muranowska Street.
Held under the patronage of the Katyn Museum, the event was attended by its Director, Sebastian Karwat, together with Deputy Director Kacper Ciesielski.
Each re-enactor participating in the march received a commemorative replica of a silver cross discovered during exhumation works conducted in Mednoye in August 1995. The original artefact, now part of the Katyn Museum’s collection, remains of unknown ownership.
The 19th Katyn Shadow March was organised by the Institute of National Remembrance and the “Radosław” Historical Group.
