Polish scientists were leaders in the development of world technologies and authors of some of the most notable inventions and groundbreaking discoveries. It is to them that the gigancinauki.pl website, dictionary of Polish inventors and explorers, and dedicated textbook (all three parts of the IPN’s new educational project) are devoted.
We encourage you to watch a documentary on the life and work of Stefan Władysław Bryła, one of the most outstanding Polish engineers of the 20th century.
80 years ago, on 22 June 1941, the German Reich initiated war on the Soviet Union.
On 22 June 1941, the German Reich launched a war against the Soviet Union; watch an educational video prepared by the IPN's Cracow branch on the eightieth anniversary of that invasion.
The international conference on the fate of Polish prisoners of KL Sachsenhausen will take place on 16 June 2021 at 4:00 p.m. on IPNtv. The conference can be viewed in English, German and Polish
The official opening will take place at 11:00 a.m., at the House of the Polish Diaspora of the "Polish Community" Association
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.
The IPN is participating in the project aimed at educating the world about Polish history, and here we are presenting collected texts by the IPN's President Jaroslaw Szarek.
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