Poles have always refused to their fate being decided by others. The nineteenth-century January Uprising – a heroic guerrilla war against the Russian occupier – fits in this attitude.
A meeting at the Lithuanian institutions of memory and the promotion of the IPN production film "Black Ceiling" about Józef Mackiewicz and Monika Tomkiewicz's monograph entitled "The Ponary Massacre 1941-1944" at the Polish Cultural Center in Vilnius were the main points of the visit of the IPN delegation to Lithuania.
The ceremony of unveiling "The Economy of the Third Reich" open-air exhibition with the participation of the IPN President Karol Nawrocki, Ph.D. took place on 12 January 2023, at 64 Krakowskie Przedmieście St. in front of the “Dom Polonii”. The ceremony was also attended by Adam Hlebowicz, Director of the IPN National Education Office and Tomasz Panfil, Ph.D., author of the exhibition.
What events led to the outbreak of the Greater Poland Uprising in December 1918?
We encourage you to watch a short film about the Greater Poland Uprising prepared by the Institute of National Remembrance
On 17 December 2022, Pope Francis approved the decree on the martyrdom of the Ulma family and has authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to publish it. This is an important step on the road to their beatification.
On 24 March 1944, during World War II, the Germans murdered the entire Polish Ulma family, along with the Jews they had been sheltering – the Didners, the Grunfelds and the Goldmans.
On 4 December 1942, "Żegota" Council of Aid to Jews was established by the Government Delegation for Poland. “Żegota” was the only state organisation in Europe whose aim was to provide help for Jews.
Wojtek was a Syrian brown bear adopted by the soldiers of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company in the 2nd Polish Corps commanded by General Władysław Anders. He carried ammunition boxes and pulled a supply cart during the Battle of Monte Cassino. He was promoted to the rank of corporal for his services to the Polish Army.
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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