Projects and workshops for teachers - Instytut Pileckiego

The Katyn Massacre – A Set of Source-Based Exercises

We are making available a set of exercises prepared for high school students, which can be used during history lessons or thematic classes.

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 the post-war decade from 1945 to 1955.

Educational materials: “The Polish Odyssey” | Materiali didattici „L’Odissea polacca”

Death for a Loaf of Bread… | Lesson plans and educational materials

We invite you to use the lesson plans developed as part of the “Called by Name” program. We hope that these scenarios and the accompanying source materials will help preserve the memory of Poles who paid with their own lives – and the lives of their loved ones – for rescuing Jews from extermination, and whose memory in particular we commemorate every year on 24 March, the National Day of Remembrance of Poles Who Saved Jews Under German Occupation.

The Katyn Massacre | Educational Materials

On the occasion of the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre, we have prepared an educational package concerning the events of 80 years ago, consisting of source texts, infographics, and exercises and tasks for students.

Extermination and Resistance | Educational Materials

We have prepared another set of exercises and source materials, this time devoted to German policy toward the Jewish population during the Second World War, as well as to the Warsaw Ghetto Rising.

German Extermination Policy Toward the Polish Elites. The Case of KL Gusen | Educational Materials for Remote Learning

In connection with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen-Gusen camp, which to this day remains an insufficiently commemorated symbol of the German policy of eliminating the Polish elites and destroying Polish statehood, we have prepared an educational package.

Focus on Rafał Lemkin

Educational material dedicated to the life of Rafał Lemkin and his most important work - The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG).

Liberated Twice. The Political Rights of Women 1918 | Film and Educational Materials

The granting of both active and passive voting rights to Polish women in 1918 placed Poland among the most democratic countries in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. We encourage you to explore the film and educational materials on women social activists.