Professor Emeritus, University of Kansas; Her areas of exerptise and special interest are European diplomatic history, 1914-1945, with emphasis on Poland; Polish political hisotry 1918-45; and the history of the Jews in Poland, 1918-1945. She is American editor of the English language Katyn volume to be published by Yale University Press in 2004 in its Annals of Communism series; Dr. Cienciala will present the subject, "Katyn - Why the long silence in the West?"