The massacre of 22,000 men in the Katyń atrocity is difficult to comprehend without relating it to the personal. The story of Bogusław Piesiewicz, who suffered a double tragedy in April 1940 as a child, is a harrowing one. In my youth I knew him through my parents in Leeds, a very literate, passionate man, who strove for justice until … Continue reading The Katyń massacre – one boy’s tragic loss