JULY VICTIMS - Instytut Pileckiego

The Augustów Roundup was the largest crime committed against Poles by the Red Army and Soviet security services after the end of World War II.

It was a symbol of the dramatic fate of Central and Eastern Europe, which in 1945 fell under the influence of the Soviet Union for several decades.

At the exhibition, we present a collection of photos of people murdered by the Soviets during the Augustów Roundup. These photographs are the only way the images of the victims of the Roundup have survived to the present day. Thanks to advanced digital reconstruction and colorization technology, the exhibition restores the true faces of these individuals to our memory. Standing face to face with them, we perceive the magnitude of loss and the scale of the crime that cut short the lives of these brave young people so full of passion and plans for the future.

In November 2021, the exhibition was nominated in the “Social Impact” category for the prestigious “Project of the Year” award by the Association of Graphic Designers.

The exhibition was presented in Warsaw, Augustów, Gdynia, and Suwałki.