It is a special place in Sokolow Podlaski. The alley is located in the prairie of the concathedral parish of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sokolow Podlaski at Square of the Blessed Virgin Mary Street.
It was established due to the initiative of the Organisation Committee within the national program: “Katyn … save from oblivion,” and is one of the largest in Poland. The alley commemorates 40 reserve officers on active duty and the police officers associated with Sokolow Land, murdered during April – May 1940 in the Soviet Union, in Katyn, Tver and Kharkov.
In the years 2010 – 2011 33 Memorial Oaks were planted and special plaques with the relevant information for each of them were posted on each oach. The additional tree is for 7 people associated with the district of Sokolow, who were honoured with the oaks in other parts of Poland. Two separate oaks devoted to the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, who died on 10th April, 2010, when they were flying to Smolensk to honour the murdered Polish people.
In Sokolow Podlaski the following officers of the State Police and the Polish Army (degrees provided by posthumous promotion) were commemorated:
aspirant Jan Babecki
police commissioner Kazimierz Bala
aspirant Jan Banaszek
aspirant Stefan Bankowski
major Stanislaw Cholewicki
lieutenant Edward Cynkutis
aspirant Jan Deoniziak
aspirant Kazimierz Frelek
aspirant Kazimierz Gorski
lieutenant Marian Gorski
major Henryk Grabowski
lieutenant Konstanty Grabowski
captain Stefan Hajduk
aspirant Franciszek Jaworowski
aspirant Franciszek Kamienczyk
aspirant Jan Karczewski
senior police commissioner Ludwik Kazimierski
senior police commissioner Waclaw Kruziewicz
aspirant Jakub Kuchta
captain Jan Kuzma
major Aleksander Letkowski
captain Franciszek Majewski
captain Jozef Makac
lieutenant Mikolaj Malinowski
lieutenant Wladyslaw Malinowski
junior coloner Henryk Aleksander Nartowski
aspirant Jan Podolak
lieutenant Tomasz Postolko vel Postolka
captain Bronisław Lucjan Skibniewski
senior commissioner Czesław Antoni Swinarski
major Stanisław Wloga
colonel Stanislaw Wyganowski
colonel Mieczyslaw Wyrozebski
captain Jan Karol Musial, lieutenant Jozef Nestorowicz, aspirant Hipolit Opallo, captain Eugeniusz Wojczal, lieutenant Tadeusz Antoni Wichtowski, captain Jan Pietrzykowski
The common oak is to mention senior guard of the Border Guard – Karol Ruszczak, prosoner in Kozielsk, who died on inhuman land.