BIP - Instytut Pileckiego
The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor
ul. Foksal 17, 00-372 Warszawa
NIP 5252735962
KRS 0000713483
REGON 369236544
The objective of the operations of the Institute consists in initiating, undertaking and providing support for activities aimed at:
1) honoring and commemorating persons – living, deceased or murdered – who have performed meritorious service for the Polish Nation, both in Poland and abroad, through the cultivation of memory or the provision of assistance to Polish citizens or Poles of different citizenship who were victims of Soviet or German Nazi crimes, of crimes motivated by nationalism, or of other criminal acts constituting crimes against peace or humanity, or war crimes, this during the period from 8 November 1917 to 31 July 1990;
2) conducting research in the field of historical sciences and interdisciplinary studies utilizing tools available to the humanities and the social sciences, and in particular studying, documenting and broadening the knowledge of totalitarian systems and of Nazi and Communist crimes committed in the 20th century;
3) gathering, elaborating and making available the accounts of victims and witnesses of totalitarian crimes, and disseminating knowledge about the subject.
Director
Prof. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz
sekretariat@instytutpileckiego.pl
Director
Prof. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz
Deputy Directors
Anna Gutkowska
Łukasz Mieszkowski
prof. Zofia Zielińska [chairperson]
dr hab. Grzegorz Berendt
dr Sławomir Dębski
dr Adam Eberhardt
Andrzej Gelberg
Grzegorz Górny
prof. Marek Kornat
Jan Ołdakowski
Albert Stankowski
dr Mateusz Szpytma
dr hab. Przemysław Żurawski vel. Grajewski
Chairperson of the Scientific Council:
Prof. Patrycja Grzebyk (University of Warsaw)
Deputy Chairperson of the Scientific Council:
Prof. Marek Kornat (Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University)
Prof. Witold Stankowski (Pilecki Institute)
Secretary to the Scientific Council:
Dr. Krystian Wiciarz
Director of the Pilecki Institute
prof. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz
Representative of the Ministry of Education and Science:
Dr hab. Jacek Zieliński
External members:
Prof. Piotr Madajczyk (Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Prof. Paweł Kaczorowski (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University)
Prof. Paweł Skibiński (University of Warsaw)
Prof. Wiesław Wysocki (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University)
Employees of the Pilecki Institute:
Dr. Bartłomiej Kapica
Dr. Agnieszka Konik
Dr. Justyna Stępień
Dr. hab. Andrzej Zawistowski (Professor of the Warsaw School of Economics)