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19.03.2013

The appeal of the IPN to the SBU for archives regarding Cursed Soldiers - Kiev, 1 March 2013

Event Name The appeal of the IPN to the SBU for archives regarding Cursed Soldiers - Kiev, 1 March 2013
Start Date 1st Mar 2013 10:40am
End Date 1st Mar 2013 10:40am
Duration N/A
Description

President of IPN Lukasz Kaminski appealed to the Security Service of Ukraine for allowing access to any documents that may be in the archives of the SBU, and relate to the post-war Polish independence underground. The Ukrainian side declares openness on this issue.


On March 1 in Kiev  a ceremonial promotion of the newest English joint publication of the Institute of National Remembrance and the Security Service of Ukraine took place in the headquarters of the State Security Service of Ukraine. The publication is a result of more than 15 years of Polish-Ukrainian archival and historical cooperation. The ceremony was attended by Dr. Lukasz Kaminski, the President of IPN and Oleksandr Jakymenko, the head of SBU.

The promotion was attended by many guests from diplomatic corps, representatives of academia and journalists.

The book contains documents from the previous eight volumes of the joint series "Poland and Ukraine in the thirties-forties of the twentieth many. Unknown documents from the archives of the secret services ", published in the years 1998-2010. It is devoted to events such as the Great Famine in Ukraine, "Polish operation" of the NKVD in USRS, fighting the Polish underground by the Soviet security agencies after 17 September 1939, but also a difficult Polish-Ukrainian relations during the World War II, the breakdown of the Polish independence underground by NKGB-MGB after 1944, resettlement of Poles and Ukrainians, and of the operation "Vistula". The collection features primarily documents from the archives of the former secret services.

Introduction to the publication has been written by prof. Hiroaki Kuromiya of the Indian University in Bloomington, the author of a number of well-known publications on recent Polish and Ukrainian history. The English volume is directed primarily to academics and students, who use English on a daily basis. The promotion, in addition to the President of the Institute of National Remembrance, the head of Ukrainian Security Services, co-authors of the publication, will be attended by Henryk Litwin, the Polish Ambassador in Kiev, Rafal Wolski, Consul General of Poland in Kiev, representatives of the diplomatic corps of the European Union countries and English-speaking countries accredited in Kiev, academics from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Kiev universities and journalists.



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