Walks - Instytut Pileckiego
walking tour
Walks
A form of popularization of the “history of places”, which makes it possible to contextualize witness accounts and information obtained from books and films in the municipal space.
During these educational walks we prove that the great events of the 20th century are made up of hundreds of individual stories. Last year we discovered locations connected with the assassination of Franz Kutschera and places where Poles hid Jews during the occupation.
Here are some of the walks which we organized:
Along the Path of Insurrectionary Ochota on the anniversary of the Ochota Massacre (4 September)
Witold Pilecki in Occupied Warsaw on the 71st anniversary of the Communists’ judicial killing of the Cavalry Captain (25 May)
In Hiding on the National Day of Remembrance of Poles who Saved Jews (24 March)
Reinstating the Memory on the occasion of the National Day of the Indomitable Soldiers (2 March)
Get Kutschera on the 75th anniversary of the assassination of the “Butcher of Warsaw” (3 February)
See also
- Call for Papers | Exile Governments and Political Refugees in 20th-Century Europe: Sovereignty in the Face of Totalitarianisms (Deadline: November 15)
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Call for Papers | Exile Governments and Political Refugees in 20th-Century Europe: Sovereignty in the Face of Totalitarianisms (Deadline: November 15)
The year 2027 marks the 85th anniversary of the signing, on 13 January 1942, of the Declaration of St James’s Palace on the Punishment of War Crimes. To commemorate this landmark event, we are organising an international academic conference addressing the history and significance of governments in exile and political refugees in 20th-century Europe.
- Conference “Shared Experiences – Different Paths? The Turning Point of 1956 and Its Significance for the Countries and Societies of East Central Europe”
conference
Conference “Shared Experiences – Different Paths? The Turning Point of 1956 and Its Significance for the Countries and Societies of East Central Europe”
The Pilecki Institute and the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences invite you to participate in an international academic conference, Shared Experiences – Different Paths? The Turning Point of 1956 and Its Significance for the Countries and Societies of East Central Europe, which will be held on 19–21 October 2026 in Warsaw. The event is part of a series of conferences devoted to the history of transformations in East Central Europe after 1945.
- New Jork | The Augustów Roundup – the largest Soviet crime committed against Polish citizens after World War II. Workshops and Presentations
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New Jork | The Augustów Roundup – the largest Soviet crime committed against Polish citizens after World War II. Workshops and Presentations
Learn the history of the Augustów Roundup, a Soviet operation carried out in July 1945 that resulted in the arrest and disappearance of hundreds of people.