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Results of the tenth edition of the Grant Fund of the Polish History Museum

28 January 2017

 

 

The tenth edition of the grant competition by the Polish History Museum has been announced. The grants are awarded to support studies on Polish history and enterprises propagating knowledge about our history abroad.

In 2017, the grants are awarded to twelve researchers. The grants awarded:

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Category: Exhibitions, Editorial notes, XXw, Albums and photos, Holocaust, History and film, Social history, Political history, News

Literary Images of the Holocaust: The Passenger by Zofia Posmysz in Germany

26 January 2017

 

The exhibition which opens in two days is part of the programme accompanying the premiere of the opera The Passenger at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen.

The exhibition presents the life of the writer Zofia Posmysz and her literary works inspired by her...

Category: Conferences, XXw, Polish historiography, Holocaust, News, Political history, Social history, Memory studies

Permanent exhibition presented at Museum of Second World War in Gdańsk

23 January 2017

 

On Monday, 23 January, the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk hosts a presentation of the permanent exhibition and two panel discussions with historians including members of the museum’s international advisory board, in anticipation of the new institution’s much anticipated opening later...

Category: New publications, Editorial notes, XXw, Editorial note, News, Political history

Primed for Violence Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland by Paul Brykczynski

13 December 2016

The assassination that changed a nation.

In 1922, the new Republic of Poland democratically elected its first president, Gabriel Narutowicz. Because his supporters included a Jewish political party, an opposing faction of antisemites demanded his resignation. Within hours, bloody riots erupted in...

Category: XXw, Holocaust, Research projects, News, Social history, Military history, Political history, Memory studies, history of Polish culture

The Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program is now accepting applications

12 December 2016

 

Since 2000, the AJC Fellows Program has provided a unique educational opportunity for graduate students to learn about the Holocaust in situ in the context of Poland's history and Jewish heritage. Through travel in Poland for three weeks, during which time Fellows visit Krakow, Warsaw, Łódź,...

Category: Editorial notes, XXw, Polish historiography, Holocaust, sources, News, Social history, Political history, Military history, Memory studies

Witold Pilecki Center for Totalitarian Studies

10 December 2016

The Witold Pilecki Center for Totalitarian Studies, founded in 2016, pursues interdisciplinary research and reflection on the Polish experience of confronting two totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century.

 

The Second World War began in 1939 with a consecutive attack on Poland by Germany and...

Category: XXw, Holocaust, News, Memory studies, Political history, Biographies

President Andrzej Duda has posthumously promoted Jan Karski to the rank of Brigadier General

07 December 2016

 

Jan Karski, who died in 2000 at the age of 86, was a diplomat, army officer and emissary of the Polish underground organizations during the Nazi German occupation of Poland.

"Jan Karski was a great soldier", said Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday when he posthumously...

Category: Conferences, XXw, News, Political history, Economic history, Cultural history

"History, Memory, Politics: Voices From Belarus, Georgia, Kosovo, Russia, Ukraine, & Turkey" - Conference in NYC

23 November 2016

 

The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) at The New School for Social Research in New York is excited to announce a very special conference-- History, Memory, Politics: Voices from Belarus, Georgia, Kosovo, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, & Turkey -which will take place...