Exactly 100 years ago, on 20 October 1921, the Conference of Ambassadors approved the League of Nations' decision to divide Upper Silesia. On the centenary of setting the Polish-German state border in Upper Silesia, the IPN’s National Education Office in Katowice presents „Rok 1921 na Górnym Śląsku“ ["The Year 1921 in Upper Silesia"] exhibition. This showcase is a continuation of two other exhibitions prepared in previous years dedicated to the 1919-1920 events.
In 2018, the Seym adopted the act establishing the National Day of Remembrance for Steadfast Clergy. It is celebrated on 19 October as a public holiday passed in tribute to "heroes, steadfast defenders of faith and independent Poland."
On October 19th 1984 priest Popiełuszko, the pastor of the working class, organiser of Masses for the motherland, one of the chaplains of “Solidarity” was arrested. For the last two years of his work at the Stanisław Kostka church at Warsaw’s Żoliborz district, he had to face the Communist Security Service hemming in.
"Praise the National Military Union men. Praise the heroes of that proud land of northern Masovia – because it is to them that we owe today’s freedom and independence," said the IPN President Karol Nawrocki in Pawłowo Kościelne, unveiling a plaque in honor of the National Military Union soldiers killed in battle.
On 16 October, the community center in Przasnysz saw a flashback of the recent NNW [Unruly, Unbreakable, Cursed] International Film Festival, a ceremony in which freedom fight heroes and their supporters were honored with Independence Ring and Door to Freedom awards. The IPN President Karol Nawrocki attended the event.
It was the first act that provided for the death penalty for Poles for giving specific help to Jews. Thus, every Polish rescue action required heroic deeds and carried a hypothetical threat of the highest criminal sanction.
The IPN’s Deputy President Mateusz Szpytma, Ph.D. is presenting the Crosses of Freedom and Solidarity, awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland to over 30 anti-communist opposition activists in Cracow.
The National Education Office at the Institute of National Remembrance is launching a competition for the logo design of the IPN's new educational and commemorative project under the name "Trails of Hope. The Odyssey of Freedom”.
An official presentation of the reconstructed movie "Trip of the Polish Army Veterans Association in America to the Homeland" (1927) took place on Sunday, 17 October 2021 at the Polish National House in New York. The event, attended by the Director of the IPN Archive, Marzena Kruk, was organized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Association of Polish Army Veterans in America.
On 27 September, the Day of the Polish Underground State, we reccommend a short outline of the organization of Poland's WWII resistance.
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