She has just received the call from Russia, to tell her that Andrzej Sariusz-Skapski has been identified. "He could only be recognized through his signet ring," says his daughter Izabella, who has been wearing black since the day her father died.
Izabella Sariusz-Skapski is sitting in her apartment in the old section of Krakow, twisting the silver ring on her finger. Her father gave her the ring, which is identical to the one he was wearing, when she completed her doctoral thesis. Her subject was the Katyn massacre. She can see the Wawel, Krakow's castle complex, through her kitchen window. It is where Poland's famous King Jan III Sobieski was buried, as well as independence icon Józef Pilsudski, and where Lech Kaczynski was buried over the weekend. Poland's president died a week earlier when his aircraft crashed en route to Katyn.
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