There’s an textual epilogue at the end of Agnieszka Holland’s new Oscar-nominated World War II drama that confirms something that I suspected throughout the film: the director was angry. Like most movies that involve the Holocaust, this is a story of struggle against adversity and the triumph of the human spirit in the face of unspeakable actions. But most of those films look at the atrocities with a sad resignation — what’s done is done, so better to mourn than to rage — that balances whatever triumphal notes there are in the story.

Friend of DCist Marin Cogan sends along these photos she snapped at the Embassy of Poland, where mourners are leaving flowers to memorialize the life and loss of Polish President Lech Kaczynski. He died in a plane crash while traveling to Katyn to commemorate the massacre of thousands of Polish officers who were prisoners of war held by Russia. Today marks a tragedy compounding a tragedy. The Embassy of Poland has opened a book of…