Research projects - Instytut Pileckiego

German Terror in the Eastern Administrative Areas of the Warsaw District of the General Government in the Years 1939–1944

The objective of the project is a comprehensive presentation of the apparatus of violence and the policy of terror imposed by the Third Reich in selected administrative areas of the Warsaw district of the General Government.

The Legacy of the Document Bureau in the Collections of the Hoover Institution

A rich collection of documents both authored and amassed by the Polish military units which escaped the USSR in 1942 is of key importance for research into the occupation policy of the Soviet Union in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic.

Jews in the General Government (1939–1945)

The objective of the project consists in researching the fate of Jews – Polish citizens, who during World War II resided in the four initial districts of the General Government.

The Memory of the Second World War: an Organizational Analysis

Why do certain events and historical topics find their way to the collective memory and quickly become its inherent part, while others do not, or are returned to memory only after many years?

The Destruction of Polish Historical Monuments on Territories Occupied by the Third Reich – the Kraków District

The objective of this research project is to arrive at a detailed picture of the losses incurred by Poland in terms of historical monuments, which constitute a particular type of monuments of culture, in direct consequence of the German occupation.