#OTD in 1970, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt visited Poland, marking the normalization of relations between the two countries and paving the way for Germany’s recognition of post-WW2 borders. During the visit, he famously knelt before the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes.

This week, representatives of the Slovak Nation’s Memory Institute (ÚPN) visited the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw. The purpose of the visit was to present the practical solutions used in the IPN Archives for digitizing archival materials.

Celebrating Saint Nicholas Day, we would like to remind you of this unique picture. Looks like St. Nicholas used a Stuart tank instead of a sleigh! It’s not Christmas time, though. It’s the feast of Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas Day), celebrated in Italy on 6 December 1944. The

On 6 December, we celebrate the Donor Day. Over two thousand thanks for over two thousand family stories entrusted to our Archive by over two thousand people who decided, quite correctly, that their memorabilia, mementoes and memories would be safe with us. We preserved,

Ludwik Wrodarczyk became a Catholic priest a few years before WW2. During the war, he helped local Jews survive the German-perpetrated Holocaust, earning the title of Righteous Among the Nations in 2000. #OTD in 1943, he was brutally murdered by Ukrainian nationalists.

#OTD in 1942, the German occupiers murdered 33 people in Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka. Thirty-one were Poles who had been helping Jews during the ongoing German-perpetrated Holocaust. Twenty of them were minors. The remaining two victims were some of the Jews they were aiding.

We are surprised by the decision of the voivode of the Masovian Voivodeship, who has agreed to remove the names “Radziłów” and “Jedwabne” from the stones commemorating Jews deported by the Germans to the German extermination camp Treblinka II. These stones, which form an

In 1924, the Swedish Academy in Stockholm awarded Władysław Reymont the Nobel Prize in Literature for his outstanding novel "The Peasants," which vividly depicts life in a Polish village at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The author passed away #OTD 100 years ago.

A camp of Polish soldiers permitted to leave the Soviet Union with Gen. Anders, Chokpak, Kazakh SSR, USSR. 🗓️March 1942

On the 158th anniversary of Marshal Józef Piłsudski's birth, @JanKasprzyk, and Karol Polejowski, the Deputy President of the IPN, paid tribute to one of the Polish Fathers of Independence. Flowers were laid at the monument to Józef Piłsudski in Warsaw.

#OTD in 1867, Józef Piłsudski was born. A central figure in Poland’s struggle for independence, he led the country through its vulnerable early years as Chief of State and Marshal of Poland, and played a key role in the victory in the Polish-Bolshevik war.

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Today, Deputy President of the Institute of National Remembrance, Karol Polejowski, hosted a delegation from Kazakhstan at the Institute’s headquarters in Warsaw. The delegation included Yekaterina Ostrovskaya, President of the Union of Poles in Kazakhstan, Marianna Temraliyeva,

During the occupation, the city hall became a fortress of the Polish Underground State. Without the heroic Mayor Kulski and his colleagues, the underground army would not have been able to survive intact until the Uprising,” recalled the famous Courier from Warsaw, Jan

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The architect of the Holocaust - #Unpunished! He wrote one of the darkest chapters in the history of the German WW2 occupation of Poland, meticulously documenting his crimes. His name was feared. No wonder, because the infamous Fritz Katzmann was responsible for the deaths of

Władysław Szpilman, born #OTD in 1911, was a Polish pianist of Jewish heritage. His family was murdered by the Germans during the Holocaust, but he himself miraculously survived both the Shoah and the 1944 #WarsawUprising. The 2002 film based on his memoir popularized his story.