The Center for Totalitarian Studies - Instytut Pileckiego
The Center for Totalitarian Studies gathers researchers who specialize in political science, sociology, history, and Jewish studies. This unique milieu of scholars implements interdisciplinary research projects devoted to totalitarianism and the history of Poland in the 20th century. Research focuses primarily on events connected with World War II, the conflict’s impact on societies and politics in the second half of the 20th century, and the cultivation of memory by the second and third postwar generations.
While conducting their own research projects, employees of the Center utilize collections acquired by the Institute, which together form a digital archive containing documents relating to the history of Poland and Polish citizens in the 20th century. As part of their activities they popularize and disseminate the results of their studies, in particular abroad. To this end they organize debates, seminars, and international scientific conferences.
Selected research projects conducted by employees of the Center with the participation of cooperating scholars:
Management
dr Krystian Wiciarz
Head
Academic Staff
prof. Grzegorz Kucharczyk
Research and Technical Staff
Co-workers
dr Andrej Angrick
Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture
dr hab. Magdalena Bainczyk
Institute for Western Affairs, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University
dr hab. Grzegorz Bębnik
Historical Research Office of the Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Katowice
dr Tomasz Ceran
The Institute of National Remembrance, Bydgoszcz
prof. UW, dr hab. Patrycja Grzebyk
Department Of Strategic Studies and International Security of the Warsaw University
prof. dr hab. Ryszard Kaczmarek
Institute of History of the University of Silesia
dr Zbigniew Klima
Cavalry Captain Witold Pilecki State University of Małopolska in Oświęcim, Auschwitz Memento Association
prof. Marek Kornat
Head of the Unit of 20th Century History at the PAN in Warsaw
dr Grzegorz Kuba
Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek
dr Joanna Lubecka
Ignatianum University in Cracow, the Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Kraków
prof. dr hab. Piotr Madajczyk
Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
dr Monika Napora
The Institute of History of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
dr Marcin Przegiętka
Historical Research Office of the Institute of National Remembrance
mgr Rafał Ruciński
The Pilecki Institute in Berlin
dr Michał Turski
Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin
Prof. dr Annette Weinke
University of Jena
dr Katarzyna Wójcik
Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
Team of the Center for Totalitarian Studies
Jakub Fornalczyk
Karolina Goździk-Lelewska
Aleksandra Konopka
Ewa Serafin-Prusator
Urszula Turbiak