In 1945, the Soviets unleashed hell upon the residents of Warmia and Mazury . They do not deserve our gratitude, let alone a monument in the centre of Olsztyn.
In connection with the interview given by Anton Drobovych, Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation wishes to present its position on the issues raised by Mr Drobovych concerning Polish-Ukrainian relations in the area of commemoration, search for and exhumation of the victims of the Volhynia genocide.
On 14 June 1940, German concentration camp Auschwitz received 728 Poles, its first - save for thirty German criminals who had been brought here to take the positions of kapos - inmates. Initially a detention and elimination facility targeting almost exclusively the Third Reich's enemies from Poland, in time it expanded the scope of its operation, adding extermination of Jews from all over Europe, slave labour benefitting the German industry, large-scale robbery of deportees, and many others.
In January 2020, the Institute of National Remembrance initiated an exhibition and educational project on the basis of sculptures by Samuel Willenberg, depicting people and situations he remembered particularly vividly during his imprisonment at Treblinka. These unique sculptures, constituting the world heritage of the Holocaust, were brought by the IPN from Israel for the purposes of the project.
The latest article by Karol Nawrocki Ph.D., President of the Institute of National Remembrance, on the Warsaw Uprising. The text has been published on the wszystkoconajwazniejsze.pl portal - in Polish, English, Spanish, French and Ukrainian
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