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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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CfP: Oppositional Engagement of Women in Authoritarian and Totalitarian Systems of the 20th Century: Poland in a Comparative European Perspective (1919–1989)

We invite scholars to participate in an international academic conference devoted to various forms of activity undertaken by women who engaged in opposition and dissent under authoritarian and totalitarian rule in the 20th century.

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8. Tag der Provenienzforschung

Zum ersten Mal gewährt das Pilecki-Institut Berlin Einblicke in die Arbeit seiner Provenienzforscher:innen in den verschiedenen Themenbereichen.

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Werbyliwci. Wielka mała historia Galicji Wschodniej

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Warschaus Neuanfang 1945 - 1949. Fotografien vom Leben in den Trümmern

Unsere neue Ausstellung!

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Premiere der Stadtrallye „Polnische Spuren 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 Elite. Gestapo-Aktivitäten in dem 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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The Empire Strikes Back: Soviet Legacy in Weaponised Memory

The panel will explore whether destruction, preservation, or critical reinterpretation offer viable responses to this contested heritage

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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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Berlin w Warszawie – Neue Debattenreihe des Pilecki-Instituts in Warschau

Erste Veranstaltung der neuen Debattenreihe des Pilecki-Instituts in Warschau

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Neue Reihe: "Wofür Denkmäler heute?"

Erste Veranstaltung: "Die Augustów-Razzia. Das größte kommunistische Nachkriegsverbrechen in Polen"

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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