Karol Nawrocki, the head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), is a relatively little known figure.

Karol Nawrocki, the head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), is a relatively little known figure.
Witkacy began to write the work in 1938 but it remained unfinished at the time of his death by suicide in 1939.
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Around 100,000 Poles were killed in an ethnic cleansing operation led by Ukrainian nationalists between 1943 and 1945.
During the Augustów roundup, the communists interned thousands of Poles and killed hundreds.
Officials from both countries, as well as descendants of the Indian royal families and former child refugees, attended the “Commemoration of the Good Maharajas”.
Warsaw says the “barbaric” incident is part of an “anti-Polish campaign by the Belarusian authorities”.
The Polish Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland, became an important location for Poles exiled from their partitioned homeland.
The education minister also called for a “copy” of the Auschwitz museum to be created near Berlin, as a reminder that it was a German camp.
Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany also sought to justify Stepan Bandera’s collaboration with Nazi Germany.
There are cases in particular that could be re-examined, says the head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).
Over 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia were killed by the Soviet Union in the Katyn massacres of 1940.
Skłodowska-Curie was “a symbol of female strength and a harbinger of great change”, says Dominika Kulczyk.
The Silesian Uprisings of 1919-1921 helped ensure that part of the region broke away from Germany and joined Poland.
The Haus der Natur in Salzberg discovered the items in a warehouse in 2017 and informed the Polish embassy.