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Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki represents universal values: patriotism, courage and a love of freedom. He lived in an age of two totalitarian regimes, challenged them by refusing to accept the violation of fundamental human rights, and by believing in supranational solida

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Werbyliwci. Wielka mała historia Galicji Wschodniej

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Premiere der Stadtrallye "Polnische Orte in Berlin"

Premiere des neuen Bildungsangebots – einer Stadtrallye (Schnitzeljagd) zu Orten der deutsch-polnischen Geschichte in Berlin-Mitte mit zwei Routen

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From Perpetrators to Victims? The Role of Karol Estreicher’s Card Index in Today’s Provenance Studies

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Gegen die polnische Intelligenzschicht. Gestapo-Aktivitäten in der Regierungsbezirk Zichenau (Ciechanów) im April 1940

Vortrag über die Massenverhaftungen der polnischen Intelligenz im April 1940 durch die Geheime Staatspolizei im Regierungsbezirk Zichenau und das Schicksal der Deportierten, vorgestellt von Marcin Przegiętka.

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Public Talk: Soviet Heritage in Transition

Talk about the shifting meanings of Soviet heritage through the artistic practice of Zhanna Kadyrova, addressing the reinterpretation of symbols in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the role of art in rethinking memory and public space in Ber

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War Preußen eine Kolonialmacht?

Vortrag über das Hinterfragen des idealisierten Bildes von Preußen als Kulturstaat, mit Blick auf die östlichen Provinzen, koloniale Ambitionen und den Versuch, kulturelle Vielfalt zu kontrollieren.

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A Question of Life and Death: The Future of Ukraine, Poland and Germany

Join us, together with an excellent line-up - Roderich Kiesewetter, Daniel Szeligowski, the Pilecki Institute´s Dominika Uczkiewicz, Patrycja Grzebyk and Eva Yakubovska - for our remembrance event marking 24 February 2022

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Interwoven: Women Architects and the Resilience of Modernist Networks

An exhibition co-curated by Exercising Modernity’s Dr Jędrzejczyk — coming soon to Prague and then Wrocław!

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Film Screening: "Ivan Ta Marta"

A film about the legendary Ukrainian movement ‘Sixties’, unfulfilled dreams and the power of love

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Neue Reihe: "Wofür Denkmäler heute?"

Auftakt zu unserer neuen Reihe: "Wofür Denkmäler heute?"

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Soviet War Memorials in Berlin: Dismantle or Preserve?

An event organised by Vitsche e.V. & Pilecki Institute as part of this year's edition of Cafe Kyiv, arguably the most important European event on Ukraine organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

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Filling Oneself-with-One-Self: Public discussion on Ukrainian dissidents in the Eastern European context

The conversation focuses on the Ukrainian Sixtiers, a generation of writers, poets, and intellectuals who emerged during Khrushchev’s so-called “thaw.” They sought to recover silenced histories, confronted Stalinist violence, resisted censorship and Russif

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Ukraine–Poland–Europe: The Challenge of a Common Textbook

We will discuss the process of developing teaching materials for history lessons, with a particular focus on Polish–Ukrainian relations. These materials are intended to serve as the basis for a future joint Polish–Ukrainian textbook.

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Concert with the band Shlyakh Dorizhenka on the fourth anniversary of russia’s full-scale invasion

Concert with the band Shlyakh Dorizhenka on the fourth anniversary of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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Intellectual Ferment in Socialist Europe (1928-1968)

A discussion of two books: Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur: Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968 by Ivana Perica (Bloomsbury, 2025) and the edited volume Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956–1968: Ideas in Flux (Brill, 2025).

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Reverbarations. A Sound Walk through Waldsiedlung Krumme Lanke and Onkel Toms Hütte

Join us on February 7 for a truly extraordinary event – experience the relationships between sounds, the rhythms of a place, its acoustic qualities, and its moments of silence

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Stimmen über Grenzen: Dissidentische Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Ukraine, Deutschland und Polen.

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Buchgespräch „Otto Küsel“ mit Sebastian Christ

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Gedenkveranstaltung zum Holocaust-Gedenktag

Ein Erinnerungsrundgang mit Musik und Zeugnissen

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Postcolonial Studies. Einführung in globaler Perspektive

Buchpräsentation + Diskussion

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Architektur als Werkzeug kolonialer Gewalt: Die Erforschung Ostmitteleuropas aus postkolonialer Perspektive

Eine Veranstaltung im Rahmenprogramm zu unserer Ausstellung „Plantstory. Eine Erzählung über Architektur, Natur und nationalsozialistische Kolonialpolitik“.

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Ukrainische Gedichte als Antwort auf den russischen Angriffskrieg

"Glaub an dich, auch am dunkelsten Ort"

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Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice

Book Talk & Signing with Steve Crawshaw

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Conference on the Nuremberg Trial

"Unknown Legacies of the Nuremberg Trial: Regional Approaches and Perspectives in East Central Europe "

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Kontaktseminar für Lehrkräfte aus Deutschland und Polen

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Images and Objects of Russia´s War against Ukraine

Book Launch + Discussion with Natasha Klimenko, Miglė Bareikytė, Viktoriya Sereda and Eva Yakubovska 

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New Exhibition: Plantstory!

A Story of Architecture, Nature, and National Socialist Colonialism

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CALL FOR PAPERS: The 80th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial

Application deadline: 12 September 2025

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Sammeln im Schatten der Einsatzgruppen: Eine ethnografische Sammelreise ins „Generalgouvernement“

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»STUS« kommt nach Düsseldorf! | 5.September 2025– 27. Februar 2026

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Eröffnung der Ausstellung „Ruchome horyzonty“ von Aurélie Pertusot in Gdynia

Vernissage der Ausstellung „Ruchome horyzonty“ (dt. Verschiebbare Horizonte) der Künstlerin Aurélie Pertusot im Rahmen des Weekend Architektury in Gdynia.

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Last guided tour of the Stus Exhibition in Berlin

We warmly invite you to the closing evening of the exhibition dedicated to Vasyl Stus — one of Ukraine’s most prominent poets and dissident voices.

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Gedenken an den Warschauer Aufstand

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Hitlers Kunsträuber. Kajetan Mühlmanns Raubzug durch das Generalgouvernement

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How does Russian propaganda work – in Russia and in Germany?

Genocide Rhetoric Inside Russia and Soft Power Operations in Germany.

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Crimea Behind Bars: Public Talk with the Kremlin Prisoner Leniye Umerova

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The post-war reconstruction of Gdańsk and Szczecin and its contemporary echoes

A new Exercising Modernity Event!

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Vasyl Stus and the Polish Human Rights Movement: Exploring Solidarity and Beyond

Exploring Solidarity and Beyond

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Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine

Book Launch and Discussion

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Butkevych and Stus: Filling Oneself-with-One-Self

Words have the power to save lives.

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The Postcolonial Challenge: Connecting Disciplines and Bridging Debates

(P)ostcolonialism is back by popular demand!

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Book Presentation: The Story of a Ukrainian Defender

Join us for an evening of powerful storytelling and in-depth discussion on the realities of war with Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko and the renowned journalist Lara Marlowe

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Special guided Tour of the Permanent Exhibition ‘"Witold Pilecki. In Resistance to Hitler and Stalin"

Special guided Tour through our Permanent Exhibition as part of a special commemorative programme on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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Fritz Bauer and the Cold War Battle to Remember Auschwitz

A lecture delivered as part of a special commemorative program marking the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation.

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Filmvorführung: Stanisław Zalewski. Botschaft des Erinnerns (polnisch/deutsch)

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Die Villa Wolf in Gubin - Ein Meilenstein der Moderne Mies van der Rohe

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Schließzeiten während der Feiertage

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Vertep Christmas Performance

The event agenda includes a Panel Talk with Ihor Kalynets (renowned dissident, poet, and participant in the historic Vertep of 1972)

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"Under German Occupation: Europe 1939–1945" - Prof. Tatiana Tönsmeyer

The lecture will be held in German, with simultaneous interpretation into English.

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„Der Weg zum Warschauer Aufstand“ – Premiere der digitalen Ausgabe

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Bykivnia, Babyn Yar, Bucha

Between The Massacre and Memory. An international Conference

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Kontaktseminar für Lehrkräfte aus Deutschland und Polen

Deutsch-polnisches Seminar für Lehrkräfte "Geschichte – Schule – Begegnung" am 12.-15.11.2024 in Berlin

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Kontaktseminar für Lehrkräfte aus Deutschland und Polen

Deutsch-polnisches Seminar für Lehrkräfte "Geschichte – Schule – Begegnung" am 12.-15.11.2024 in Berlin

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Movie Screening: "Yours Vasyl"

Including Panel Talk with Director Svitlana Rudiuk and Vasyl´s sister Mariia Stus!

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Fortbildungen für Lehrkräfte: Witold Pilecki. Ein Mensch im Widerstand

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Networks of Support in the Wake of russia's War against Ukraine

The Case of Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Czech Republic

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(P)Ostkolonialismus – Postcolonial Perspectives on Poland, Ukraine and Eastern Europe

During our conference researchers from various academic disciplines will discuss the potential benefits and challenges of postcolonial and decolonial perspectives on the historical and contemporary entanglements of the areas under study.

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Working with Language: Translation in Vasyl Stus's Biography

A lecture by Margarita Yegorchenko, one of the researchers behind the "Stus" exhibition.

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„Vom Konflikt zur Versöhnung. Wie unterrichtet man über die deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen?“. Seminar für Lehrkräfte und Pädagog*innen

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First international exhibition about Vasyl Stus! Now in Düsseldorf!

An exhibition about a forgotten Ukrainian and European freedom fighter!

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After the voice. The story of Marcella Sembrich.

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Orphan Memory: Between Vanishing and Forgetting in Eastern Europe

An Exercising Modernity Lecture

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Barbara Brukalska and Helena Syrkus: Polish women architects and the networks of the avant-garde

An Exercising Modernity Lecture

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Ausstellungseröffnung in Dresden

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The Erosion. An Art Installation about the Collective Memory of WWII

Created by the star new media art & design collective panGenerator.

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Open Call: “A Journey from Dangerous to (Un)Safe”

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Will of Survival, Obligation to Witness… Rachela Auerbach and the Women of Oneg Shabbath in the Warsaw Ghetto

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Open Call: 5th Edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy

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Online-Fortbildung „80 Jahre Warschauer Aufstand: 1944/2024“

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Permanent exhibition on Witold Pilecki

"Witold Pilecki. In Resistance to Hitler and Stalin" - exhibition opening on 26.09

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Das Institut bleibt am Wochenende geschlossen

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Call for Contributions: (P)ostcolonialism

A symposium on postcolonial perspectives on Poland, Ukraine and Eastern Europe

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Out Now: The Manipulenin Anthem and full recording of the ceremony

Fake Narratives deserve Fake Awards

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Collecting Testimonies from Russia´s War Against Ukraine. Why and How to do it

Perspectives, Documentary Projects and Archival Collections from Berlin, Warsaw, Lviv and Jerusalem

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“Ukrainian Decolonization: the Untold Roma Stories”

A panel discussion with Maksym Eristavi, Yanush Panchenko, Volodymyr Yakovenko and Nataliia Tomenko

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"Roma in Ukraine - Fighters for Democracy, Human Rights and Justice"

Exhibition + Panel Discussion + Movie Screening

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"Self-made (wo)man – Maria Jadwiga Strumff (1858–1940) and her memories"

The fourth event accompanying our exhibition "Doppelt Frei"

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Irena Sendler

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Zeitzeugengespräch mit Uri Strauss

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'Sieben Schritte zum Ruhm'

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Independence and Modernity. The Lives of the first Polish Female Pilots

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Die Kinder von Zamość 1942-1943

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The "People's History Turn" in Polish women's studies - Presentation and Panel Discussion