Institute of National Remembrance

Harrowing letters from WWII concentration camp children reveal deprivation and starvation

While examining documents in private collections, historians from the Museum of Polish Children - Victims of Totalitarianism found eight letters written by children who had been imprisoned in what was called the Preventive Camp for Young Poles of the Security Police in Łódź (Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt). Muzeum Dzieci Polskich - ofiar totalitaryzmu/IPN

While examining documents in private collections, historians from the Museum of Polish Children - Victims of Totalitarianism found eight letters written by children who had been imprisoned in what was called the Preventive Camp for Young Poles of the Security Police in Łódź (Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt).

Horror experience of women subjected to bestial experiments at WWII concentration camp retold in powerful new exhibition

Entitled ‘The girls from KL Ravensbrück’, the bilingual exhibition juxtaposes two worlds, that of youthful freedom before the war and the hell of the camp through a display of 4,000 personal objects from the women collected over several years by the museum.

President commemorates Solidarity message to workers

A message written by the Solidarity trade union to the “working people of Eastern Europe” on September 8. 1981, carried the union’s philosophy across national borders, President Andrzej Duda writes in an article marking the 40th anniversary of a message to a region then still under communist oppression.

Appeal launched to identify family pictured with baby amongst rubble of war-torn Warsaw

Presumably showing parents with their new-born child, the couple’s radiant happiness and the child’s snow-white baby blanket stand in stark contrast to the chaos and crumbled building ruins of Warsaw strewn around them.

Investigators uncover remains of teenagers murdered in Stalinist horror jail

WARNING! GRAPHIC IMAGES: The remains of three bodies belonging to victims judged to be around 19-20 years old were found by the Search and Identification Bureau of the Institute of National Remembrance.

‘Giants of Science’ project to show off world-changing Polish inventions which include walkie-talkies, mine detectors, and the first lunar vehicle

Fearing that many of them are in danger of becoming forgotten, the Institute of National Remembrance says that the project aims to remind or show internet users how Polish inventors and scientists changed the world and how much they contributed to the development of many countries.

Appeal launched to find Jewish woman who disappeared after her husband was executed for saving woman sold as a sex slave for bottle of vodka

Lidia Przerwa was last seen in 1947 when her husband was executed by firing squad over the deaths of three Soviet soldiers who had been transporting a woman they’d bought off her own husband.

Congressman apologises for "Polish death camp" misnomer

US Congressman Steve Cohen has apologised for recent statements suggesting Polish complicity in the Holocaust, which evoked hefty protests from the Polish ambassador in the US, the Polish-American Kosciuszko Foundation and the Warsaw-based Institute for National Remembrance (IPN).

Poland accuses US congressman of falsifying Hitler's crimes

US Democratic congressman Steve Cohen has come in for criticism after saying “it was not just Nazi, Germany; it was Poland where some of these more severe, serious concentration camps were Auschwitz and Birkenau."

The spy left out in the cold: Gripping new book tells extraordinary tale of Poland’s most devastating Cold War spy

The highest-ranking intelligence officer in communist Poland to ever flee the country, Michał Goleniewski exposed more than 1,600 Soviet bloc intelligence officers, and agent handlers, including notorious MI6 mole George Blake, to his handlers in the West. Now, through exclusive access to declassified top secret documents, the story of his incredible life has finally been told in a new book published this week.

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