Who was Krystyna Skarbek and why was she called Churchill’s favourite female secret agent? How was Enigma broken and how did the Poles manage to do something the English and French could not? We invite you to the event “Secret Agents and Secret Codes: The Polish Factor in WWII”! The event organised by Ognisko Polskie,…
We invite you to a debate organised by The Pilecki Institute dedicated to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and its global influence! The guests are Prof. Frederick Corney from The College of William & Mary in Virginia, who specializes in the history of Russia, specifically in the revolutionary period through the 1920s, and Dr. Bartłomiej…
The Pilecki Institute’s Center for Totalitarian Studies invites you to participate in the international scholarly conference, which will take place on 9–10 November 2022. The deadline for applications is 30 June! From the first days of the Second World War, the Polish intelligentsia was subjected to a brutal campaign of planned extermination perpetrated by the…
A fascinating account of how Polish diplomats tried to save Jews from Hitler’s death camps. Historian Roger Moorhouse tells the remarkable story of the the Lados Group – Polish diplomats and Jewish activists working in Switzerland, who masterminded a passport forgery scheme which is thought to have saved as many as 3,000 Jews from the…
The Jagiellonian Law Society and the Kosciuszko Foundation present the fourth lecture in their series on ethnic minorities in Polish lands. In this webinar, Professor Pisulinski from the University of Rzeszow, Poland will speak about Lemkos, a minority group from south-eastern Poland. Professor dr. hab. Jan Pisuliński is a Polish historian and currently an assistant…
Don’t miss the chance to listen to a fascinating discussion on the 40th anniversary of imposing martial law in Poland! The discussion will deal with the general context of the 1980s in an international context of politics with Poland as the main focus. During the event scholars will discuss some of the global events during…
