Plaque Wording: "They died because they were Poles." In memory of our compatriots. At least 111,000 victims of communist genocide, murdered in the Soviet Union, along with hundreds of thousands deported deep into the "inhuman land" - to endure starvation, exhaustion, and slave labour under the NKVD's Polish operation of 1937-1938. On the 80th anniversary of this crime, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2017