nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180108-103301 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180106s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180108-103301 doi eng 342 23 Baranowska, Grażyna Author aut The Right to the Truth for the Families of Victims of the Katyń Massacre Baranowska, Grażyna Verfassungsblog 2018-01-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Recently, Uladzislau Belavusau with his post about a de-communization law in Poland launched a joint ASSER-Verfassungsblog symposium on what he has coined "mnemonic constitutionalism". Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias followed up on this topic by mapping the landscape of various memory laws in the recent years and unfolding the ongoing challenges to fundamental rights, joined by Anna Wójcik with an exploration of how memory laws affect state security. With this contribution, I would like to discuss how the European Court of Human Rights has failed to offer redress to the families of the victims of the Katyń massacres seeking to receive information about their loved ones. I will compare the Polish case-study with the Spanish and South-American practice concerning the “right to the truth”, thus adding this concept to the array of topics discussed under the umbrella of “memory laws” and mnemonic constitutionalism. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-right-to-the-truth-for-the-families-of-victims-of-the-katyn-massacre/ raw object