After the capitulation of Lwów to the Soviet Union on September 22 , 1939 , Alojzy Wir-Konas was arrested by the NKVD and imprisoned in the Starobielsk concentration camp . He was murdered in the Katyn massacre in April 1940 . For his wartime service he was posthumously promoted to the rank of General . Among the Katyn victims were 14 Polish generals including Leon Billewicz , Bronisław Bohatyrewicz , Xawery Czernicki ( admiral ) , Stanisław Haller , Aleksander Kowalewski , Henryk Minkiewicz , Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski , Konstanty Plisowski , Rudolf Prich ( murdered in Lwow ) , Franciszek Sikorski , Leonard Skierski , Piotr Skuratowicz , and Mieczysław Smorawiński
Katyn massacre
Katyn massacre
Alojzy Wir-Konas