To mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre and honour its approximately 22,000 victims OMNI Television is again privileged to present special memorial programming.
OMNI.1 will air a special two-and-a-half hour presentation of the multiple award-winning E1 Entertainment film, Katyn this Saturday, April, 24th starting at 6:00 p.m. EDT, in place of regularly scheduled language programming.
“OMNI recognizes the poignant importance of this film which carries such historical significance and we are pleased to broadcast Katyn at this time,” says Madeline Ziniak, National Vice President of OMNI Television. “We are delighted that in concert with the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Canada, Zenon Kosiniak-Kamysz; and the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Toronto, Marek Ciesielczuk; along with E1 Entertainment, OMNI is able to share this story and help create awareness for those who aren’t familiar with this period in history.”
Based on the book, Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk, the movie Katyn tells the story, through the eyes of the mothers, wives and daughters, of Polish officers murdered during WWII and their families who, unaware of the crime, were still waiting for their loved ones to return.
The film includes excerpts from German newsreels presenting the Katyn massacre as a Soviet crime, and excerpts from Soviet newsreels presenting the massacre as a German crime. Documentary footage of the scene of the massacre is also shown.
Katyn was made under the honorary patronage of the President of Polish Republic Lech Kaczyński and his wife Mrs. Maria Kaczyńska, both of whom perished along with 94 other Polish political and military officials, when their plane crashed in thick fog near Smolensk – approximately 19 kilometres (12 miles) west of Katyn forest — in western Russia on April 10th, 2010. They had been heading to the Katyn forest to mark the 70th anniversary of the massacre.
