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  • Call for Articles – Volume 9 of the Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies yearbook

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    Call for Articles – Volume 9 of the Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies yearbook

  • Academic conference “Oppositional Engagement of Women in Authoritarian and Totalitarian Systems of the 20th Century: Poland in a Comparative European Perspective (1919–1989)”
    Four speakers during the question-and-answer session. From the left: a participant in a leather jacket is speaking into the microphone. Next to him sits a speaker wearing glasses, a shirt with a subtle check pattern, and beige pants. Next to them is a female speaker in a white outfit holding the conference program, and a participant in a navy blue blazer. On the table in front of them are bottles of water, glasses, and a blue folder containing conference materials.

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    Academic conference “Oppositional Engagement of Women in Authoritarian and Totalitarian Systems of the 20th Century: Poland in a Comparative European Perspective (1919–1989)”

    The second academic conference in a series “Oppositional Engagement of Women in Authoritarian and Totalitarian Systems of the 20th Century: Poland in a Comparative European Perspective (1919–1989)” brought together representatives of various fields of the humanities and social sciences from numerous research centers in Poland and abroad.

  • Accountability for War Crimes. New book from Pilecki's expert
    It is an expanded English-language edition of the monograph "Problem odpowiedzialności karnej za zbrodnie wojenne w pracach rządu polskiego na emigracji (1939–1945)", which in 2023 was awarded a grant under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s “Excellent Science II” program for the translation and open-access publication of the book abroad.

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    Accountability for War Crimes. New book from Pilecki's expert

    It is an expanded English-language edition of the monograph "Problem odpowiedzialności karnej za zbrodnie wojenne w pracach rządu polskiego na emigracji (1939–1945)", which in 2023 was awarded a grant under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s “Excellent Science II” program for the translation and open-access publication of the book abroad.

  • 12 July | Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Augustów Roundup
    A monument dedicated to the victims of the Augustów Roundup, bearing the inscription “LIPCOWI,” in front of which numerous wreaths and bouquets of flowers in white and red have been laid. Soldiers stand on either side of the monument, performing an honor guard.

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    12 July | Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Augustów Roundup

    12 July is celebrated as the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Augustów Roundup. The roundup began 81 years ago on this day – on 12 July 1945, two months after the end of the Second World War.

  • The Volhynian Crime: The Pilecki Institute and its scholarly and research activities
    Portraits of Ukrainians who saved Poles during the Volhynia Massacre and were awarded the Virtus et Fraternitas Medal.

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    The Volhynian Crime: The Pilecki Institute and its scholarly and research activities

    On the Sunday of 11 July 1943, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the armed wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Stepan Bandera faction) – a radical fascist organization striving to build an independent Ukrainian state without any national minorities – carried out a coordinated attack on almost a hundred Polish settlements in the German-occupied Volhynian Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic.

  • Announcement

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    Announcement

    The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor, the sole shareholder of Pilecki Institute (USA), Inc., announces that the Board of Directors has appointed Jack Fairweather as the interim President (CEO) of Pilecki Institute (USA), Inc., effective as of 18 June 2026. His task will be to expand the program strategy in line with the statutory mission of the Pilecki Institute’s New York branch.

  • Colloquium “Writing and Teaching Environmental History of Ukraine and East Central Europe”

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    Colloquium “Writing and Teaching Environmental History of Ukraine and East Central Europe”

    The colloquium aims to advance the environmental history of Ukraine as a research field and teaching area by addressing related challenges, identifying opportunities, and planning future directions.

  • The MODEERN FREEDOM exhibition at the Pilecki Institute NYC is now open!
    The organizers in front of the exhibition poster.

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    The MODEERN FREEDOM exhibition at the Pilecki Institute NYC is now open!

    The largest group presentation of Polish contemporary art in New York since MoMA’s legendary “Fifteen Polish Painters” exhibition in 1961.

  • Pilecki Institute USA presents MODEERN FREEDOM exhibition - contemporary art from Central and Eastern Europe in Lower Manhattan, NYC

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    Pilecki Institute USA presents MODEERN FREEDOM exhibition - contemporary art from Central and Eastern Europe in Lower Manhattan, NYC

    The largest group presentation of Polish contemporary art in New York since MoMA’s legendary “Fifteen Polish Painters” exhibition in 1961.