Opening of "The Holodomor and Now More Genocide" exhibition

Even 17 persons per minute was the Ukrainian population’s fatality rate at the peak of the Great Famine (1932–1933), artificially generated by the communist authorities of the Soviet Union. Left unpunished, that genocide, as well as how today’s Russia is seeking to annihilate the Ukrainian nation are the themes of the exhibition “The Holodomor and…


Faith Hillis awarded prestigious prize for her book about Russian Émigrés

Faith Hillis from the University of Chicago was awarded the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize for her book “Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s”. The scholars recognized the book as the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies. Established in 1983, the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize is awarded…


A Manifesto on Seven Canvas Paintings

On 30 April 1939, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Albert Einstein officially opened the New York World’s Fair. Before this could happen, a group of artists, people from the fields of culture and science, as well as government representatives, had been working intensively for over a year on the Polish Pavilion. The idea behind…


After 83 years, treasures of Polish culture have returned to Poland!

On 29 September, the National Museum in Warsaw opened the exhibition ‘Lukasians. The Great Return’ (“Łukaszowcy. Wielki Powrót”). The exhibition was prepared by the Polish History Museum and consists of unique paintings and tapestries depicting the most important events in Polish history. The works of art made by members of the Brotherhood of St Luke,…


A play about Jan Karski conquers theatres in New York

On 15 September, Theatre for a New Audience in New York (TFAN) premiered the play ‘Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski’. The play tells the story of the legendary courier to the Polish government-in-exile who was the first to inform the world about Nazi German crimes in Auschwitz. The play was met with great…


Appeal of the Workers’ Defense Committee to Society and the Authorities of the PRL

In the communist People’s Republic of Poland (Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) the authorities had full control of the economy. They decided about the production volume, distribution manner, and retail prices. The December 1970 increase in food prices sparked social unrest. Even though it was forcedly suppressed by the government (a few dozen people were shot)…


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