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The Pilecki Institute has inaugurated its activities in New York

As an institution dedicated to researching the two totalitarian systems of the 20th century, the Pilecki Institute has the privilege of representing a historical experience that American society has never directly undergone.

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Inauguration of the Pilecki Institute in New York | A transatlantic bridge for values that are dear to us all

This coming weekend, the Pilecki Institute will inaugurate its activities in New York.

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Call for Papers | Embracing the New, Preserving the Old: Studying Fascism, Communism, and Totalitarianism in the 2020s (October 14-15)

We invite historians, political scientists, sociologists, scholars of culture and media, and others interested to reflect on methods, cases, and knowledge production related to the study of fascism, communism, and totalitarianism in the 2020s.

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"Germans Appropriate the Polish Experience of Victimhood. Colonial patterns of thinking emerge in the debate on collaboration" by Hanna Radziejowska and Mateusz Fałkowski

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 11, 2026. Article translated from German into English.

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Research paper of an employee of the Pilecki Institute in a Q1-indexed journal

Dr. Tomasz Chinciński published an article in the Q1 journal Cogent Arts & Humanities on the attitudes of the German population in Poland incorporated into the Third Reich.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: International academic conference „Soviet Central Asia as a Totalitarian Testing Ground” | Deadline for submissions: April 30

The Pilecki Institute in Warsaw invites scholars to take part in the international academic conference “Soviet Central Asia as a Totalitarian Testing Ground”, to be held on 15–17 June 2026 at the Institute’s headquarters in Warsaw.

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Pilecki Institute International Teachers and Educators Program 5th edition. Post-war decade. | Call for participants

Recruitment for the fifth edition of the Pilecki Institute International Teachers and Educators Program has begun. We invite teachers and educators from around the world to participate in the online conference. This year, we are focusing on the history of

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Oppositional Engagement of Women in Authoritarian and Totalitarian Systems of the 20th Century: Poland in a Comparative European Perspective (1919–1989)

We invite scholars to participate in an international academic conference devoted to various forms of activity undertaken by women who engaged in opposition and dissent under authoritarian and totalitarian rule in the 20th century.

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The Lemkin Laboratory – the Pilecki Institute and the Mieroszewski Centre sign cooperation agreement

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The Witold Pilecki International Book Award: Bilewicz, Marat and Eristavi winners of the Institute’s 5th competition for best history book

The Witold Pilecki International Book Awards were presented during a ceremony on Thursday 11 December, in the auditorium of the Pilecki Institute.

The commemoration of Jakub Tokarz who was murdered for helping Jews during the German occupation | CALLED BY NAME

On 28 October 2025, in Biedaczów near Leżajsk, a stone with a commemorative plaque was unveiled in honor of Jakub Tokarz – a resident of the village who paid the ultimate price for sheltering the Jewish Rimler family during the Second World War. He is the hundredth person to be honored as part of the “Called by Name” program.

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