Some historians, including Norman Davies, have suggested that a memorial was erected at that site in order to distract from a massacre at a different site with this name.
A memorial at a site with this name includes an eternal flame next to three birches. An event at that site with this name is commemorated by a sculpture called The Unbowed Man, which depicts that event's only adult survivor, Yuzif Kaminsky, holding his dead son. Some historians, including Norman Davies, have suggested that a memorial was erected at that site in order to distract from a massacre at a different site with this name. A village of this name has become symbolic of the massacres carried out in (*) Belarus during World War II. The Augustow roundup is sometimes referred to as a "little" version of an event at another site of this name. While en route to a memorial for that massacre, President Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane crash. For 10 points, give this name of the forest where the NKVD executed thousands of Poles in 1940.
A memorial at a site with this name includes an eternal flame next to three birches.
Khatyn [or Katyn Forest; or Chatyn]