On May 21, 2013 in the Janusz Kurtyka Educational Center of the IPN “Station History” (ul. Marszałkowska 21/25, Warsaw) at 1:30 PM, there will be official signing of the cooperation agreement between the IPN and the Archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. The signees of the document are going to be: the President of the Institute of National Remembrance dr. Łukasz Kamiński and Prorector of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia - Pridon Diasamidze.

The signing of the agreement will be accompanied by the handing over of the first batch of 1,6 thousand copies of digital documents. These will be the materials coming from the Archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs concerning the Polish citizens repressed in the UUSR during the period of Great Terror. A part of these was already presented in Tibilisi, during an exhibition organized by the Georgian ministry of Internal Affairs along with the Embasy of the Republic of Poland, on February 12 of this year.

The agreement, signed for a year, predicts a purchase of 20 thousand copies of documents concerning Polish citizens living in the territory of Georgia in the XX century. The Archives in Georgia are in possession of other, interesting for the IPN documents. These are primarily concerned with soldiers of the Home Army from the Vilnus region kept in internment in Kutaisi, as well as materials concerning the German POWs from World War II, taking part in the pacifications of Lvov and Stanislavov, both of which are of great interest to the Institute.

The IPN plans to continue the cooperation in the coming years. We also plan to initiate a series of source publications entitled: “Poles in Georgia in the XX century”.

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On May 20-23, on the invitation of the IPN – a Georgian delegation visiting Poland is as follows:  Pridon Diasamidze – Prorector of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, Omar Tushurashvili – Director of the Archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and Nana Grigalashvili – employee of the International Section of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs