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The heroic Poles who saved my mother’s life | article

"Seventy-five years after his mother was liberated from Bergen Belsen, Daniel Finkelstein has learned about the brave Polish diplomats who saved her life". The article by Daniel Finkelstein published on "The Jewish Chronicle" website.

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KL Gusen - the forgotten camp | interview

An interview with Rudolf Haunschmied who is a member of the Gusen Memorial Committee and a self-educated historian. Most of the commemorative initiatives for the KL Gusen concentration camps of the last decades were based on his activities and research.

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Behinds the scenes of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau | article

"The question is often asked how it was possible that the descendants of Heine and Goethe were able to subject other nations in the heart of Europe to such a terrible fate in the first half of the 20th century". Article by Professor Tadeusz Panecki.

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The end of Auschwitz | interview

How did the liberation proceed? In what condition were the surviving prisoners found? An interview with Prof. Witold Stankowski on the day of liberation and the preceding months.

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Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies Vol. 3

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The Pilecki Institute introduces a new seminar series

The first session of our Pariser Platz Seminar "Approaches and Methods in Research on the Second World War and the 20th Century" is about to take place on 02.03.2020, 12.00-14.00.

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UN/ERWÜNSCHTE TRÄUME - wirst du ihnen mit mir zusammen zuhören?

UN/WANTED DREAMS ist eine Installation, die den Träumen der ehemaligen KZ-Häftlinge aus Auschwitz gewidmet ist. Das Projekt basiert auf der Forschung von Prof. Kłodziński in den 1970er Jahren und Materialien aus den Archiven des Staatl. Museums Auschwitz.