On 1 March 2024, the IPN President Karol Nawrocki, Ph.D., and his deputies Prof. Karol Polejowski and Mateusz Szpytma, Ph.D., took part in a roll call of remembrance and laid flowers at the execution wall in the former communist prison in Warsaw Rakowiecka Str., Gen. Fieldorf, Col. Ciepliński, Cpt. Pilecki and many other brave polish soldiers were killed there by the communists.
The death of Łukasz Ciepliński and soldiers of anti-communist resistance was no kind of defeat. It ended their honorable service to the country and began our duty ... Remembrance of the Cursed Soldiers is something we owe to the past, but also something we owe to the future, said the IPN President Karol Nawrocki, Ph.D. on the grounds of former Mokotów prison.
The IPN Deputy President Prof. Krzysztof Szwagrzyk was in the village of Stary Grodków, southern Poland, the site of a 1946 trap, murder and burial of Cpt. Henryk Flame’s men by communist security service. Professor Szwagrzyk’s team had found and identified many of the victims.
IPN’s President Karol Nawrocki, Ph.D., also unveiled a plaque on the wall of a former seat of the communist security service in Koszalin, a city on the Baltic coast. It honors local underground members who suffered and were killed for their resistance to the Soviet-sponsored regime.
In the former prison at Rakowiecka, by the brick wall where executions were carried out, the memory of the members of the Freedom and Independence Association murdered here by the communists 73 years ago was honored at the hour of their death. The Deputy President of the IPN, Mateusz Szpytma, Ph.D., took part in the commemoration.