[Soviet politics of breaking international war law. Representatives of medical professions among the victims of the Katyń crime]

In April 1940 the Soviet authorities murdered nearly 25 thousand Polish citizens belonging mainly to the intelligentsia. The crime is known as the Katyń Crime because Katyń was the first place where the victims had been discovered. Representatives of different medical specializations were one of the most numerous groups among the victims. Despite of the sixty-year period from their death the identity of many of them has not been found out. In the years 1994 - 1995 the author participated in exhumations made in the Katyń Woods. As an expert of the Government Board he was responsible for identifying, describing and cataloguing all objects found during the exhumation works. It was then when he started to gather information on medical doctors killed in 1940. The data verification has not been terminated yet as many of the data are incomplete and ambiguous. Publication of the partial and incomplete data is necessary to complete estimative information found in literature. The author considers that wider research works on the subject will deepen reflections on effects of the Katyń Crime.