Katyń – Palmiry 1940 [10]

Katyń – Palmiry 1940

Subject: no
Face value: 10 pln
Alloy: 925/1000 Ag
Diameter: 32 mm
Weight: 14.14 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 11000 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: no
Date of issue: 2020-03-19
Issue price: 135 pln
The reverse of the coin features a portrait of Agnieszka Dowbor-Muśnicka with a quotation carved by an inmate in one of the cells at Aleja Szucha prison in Warsaw: “It is easy to talk about Poland. It is more difficult to work for it and even more difficult to die for it. And the most difficult is to suffer for it”. The same inscription can be found at the Palmiry cemetery.

Designer: Robert Kotowicz
The obverse of the coin features the portrait of Janina Lewandowska and a fragment of Bogurodzica, an old Polish battle song, whose text was engraved on the underground bell at the Katyń cemetery. Janina Lewandowska and Agnieszka Dowbor-Muśnicka symbolise all the victims of crimes perpetrated in Katyń and at Palmiry 80 years ago.

Designer: Robert Kotowicz

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Katyń – Palmiry 1940

Janina Lewandowska and Agnieszka Dowbor-Muśnicka were born into a patriotic family, where the love of the homeland constituted an integral part of children’s upbringing. Their father, General Dowbor-Muśnicki, was the founder and organiser of the First Polish Corps formed in Russia in 1917, and later the commander of the victorious Greater Poland uprising between 1918 and 1919. In the war with Bolshevik Russia he participated in the fighting for Lvov. Following the cessation of hostilities, General Dowbor-Muśnicki devoted himself to running a land estate purchased in Lusowo in Greater Poland in 1919.

His elder daughter, Janina, was born on 22 April 1908 in Kharkov, but her youth and adult life were linked to Lusowo and Poznań. As a teenager she took to ...

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