For over 20 years, the IPN has been successfully carrying out its research, educational, commemorative and archival mission in Poland and abroad. The mission of the IPN is to research and popularize modern history of Poland and to investigate crimes committed from 1917, throughout WW2 and the communist period, until 1990.
At today's press conference, the IPN president gave a summary of the Institute's activities in the last twenty years, his words backed by data presented on the screen. "We want to show what the IPN does and what we have achieved," he said.
These achievements, resulting from twenty years of arduous work, are books, seminars, exhibitions and conferences on various, sometimes previously undiscussed, issues. It is the truth about the most difficult but also the most triumphant moments in the history of Poland and the Polish Nation. They are rallies, contests, websites, social media pages and video games, aimed at popularizing recent history among the young generation.
For us, the most important thing is remembrance. The IPN is staffed by people who are passionate about history, people who have dedicated their professional lives to this institution for more than 20 years and who serve the historical truth and remembrance every day.
said Karol Nawrocki.
Summing up the achievements of the IPN, Karol Nawrocki mentioned among other things, that the Office of Search and Identification had so far identified 220 victims of totalitarian regimes. The IPN Archive holds a unique collection of documents - over 93 kilometres of files, including 39 million photographs. The IPN Publishing House has released more than 3,500 publications, 150 of them in foreign languages.
Since 2016, the IPN has created 596 new memorial sites of war heroes and victims of totalitarian regimes. 75 renovations took place and more than 100 exhumations have been carried out. The Vetting Office examines the vetting declarations of candidates to the highest public offices in regard to their truthfulness. To date, the IPN has received nearly half a million submitted vetting profiles and found more than 1,500 cases of untruthful declarations.
Learn about the IPN mission and work in this short video: