Looking back into the past is an important task of the IPN, but today, we’re opening a very special history window, and checking out what Easter looked like years ago, over a few decades of the 20th century.
The Soviet propaganda imposed on us an image of communist Russia liberating Europe from German Nazism. In reality, half of our continent was dominated by the Soviet Union for the next 45 years. Monuments erected to Red Army soldiers fallen on Polish territory were, in fact, just objects promoting communism. For the sake of historical truth and respect for the Victims it is high time we cleared public space of the remnants of communist propaganda!
On 24 March 2024, the IPN commemorated Poles rescuing Jews during World War II in Rzeszów and Markowa. Exactly 80 years have passed since Ulma family’s martyrdom for sheltering Jews.
With this series of films entitled "Not Just the Ulmas", the Institute of National Remembrance would like to pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust, as well as to the Poles who lost their lives to protect their Jewish fellow citizens during the criminal German occupation of Poland. A prime example of this atrocity was the crime committed by the Germans against the nine-members of the Ulma Family. The 80th anniversary of this crime will be commemorated on March 24.
We would like to refer back to an IPN interview with Eugeniusz Szylar, a Righteous from Markowa
IPN's educational series of short films Not Only the Ulmas presents well-researched examples of Poles who saved Jews under German occupation during World War II. Each episode is focusing on a separate person, and most often a family or several families, whose members risked, and most often lost, their lives trying to protect their Jewish fellow citizens. The series was preperad by the IPN's Spokesperson's Office in cooperation with IPN's Office of International Cooperation and with researchers at the IPN’s Historical Research Office.
International Conference Need to Know XIII and the 2024 IIHA Annual Conference: Intelligence in Central and Eastern Europe (Intermarium) and the Soviet (Russian) Factor, 14-16 October 2024, Warsaw
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 Cursed Soldiers (also known as "doomed soldiers","accursed soldiers", "damned soldiers" or "indomitable soldiers") is a name applied to a variety of Polish resistance movements formed in the later stages of World War II and afterwards.
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