Film and History
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Category: Exhibitions, Editorial notes, XXw, Albums and photos, Polish historiography, History and film, sources, News, Military history, Social history
Google Cultural Institute helps the Polish History Museum reach a global audience
11 August 2017
The Polish History Museum is a state-funded cultural institution that aims to make Polish history more accessible. The museum will open on 11 November 2018 – the centennial anniversary of Poland’s independence – but it does not have a building to house it yet.
Dorota Szkodzińska, the museum’s...
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Category: New publications, XXw, Open projects - aplications, History and film, News, Social history, Cultural history, history of Polish culture
The Oral History Archives
28 April 2017
The Oral History Archives is the largest collection of biographical recounting (circa 5,000 audio recordings and 120 videos) and other archival testimonies, covering almost the entire 20th century. The first recording comes from 1987, initiated by the KARTA social movement, called the Eastern...
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Category: Conferences, Lectures, Exhibitions, Editorial notes, XXw, Albums and photos, Meeting, Holocaust, History and film, Research projects
Exhibition on the Polish Righteous of the Holocaust in New York City
21 March 2017
The opening on 5 April will present the exhibition by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews at the Polish Consulate, with a lecture by Dariusz Stola, director of POLIN.
Director Stola’s lecture will be part of opening ceremonies at the Polish Consulate for the exhibition „They...
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Category: Exhibitions, Editorial notes, XXw, Albums and photos, Holocaust, History and film, Social history, Political history, News
Literary Images of the Holocaust: The Passenger by Zofia Posmysz in Germany
26 January 2017
The exhibition which opens in two days is part of the programme accompanying the premiere of the opera The Passenger at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen.
The exhibition presents the life of the writer Zofia Posmysz and her literary works inspired by her...
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Category: News, Political history, Social history, Memory studies, Exhibitions, History and film
Independence Day
11 November 2016
The 11th Independence Station was organized on 11 November by the Polish History Museum in Warsaw to celebrate Independence Day, the anniversary of Poland's regaining its statehood in 1918.
The main attractions of this edition were an urban game (for children...
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Category: Editorial notes, XXw, History and film, News, Social history
Premiere of the MHP documentary If God Let’s to Rise Us from the Dead
29 October 2016
On 2 November at 6 pm, we invite you to the Silesian Museum in Katowice for the premiere screening of the new MHP movie Jak Pan Bóg pozwoli zmartwychwstać [If God Let’s to Rise Us from the Dead], directed by Adam Turula.
If God Let’s to Rise Us from the Dead: The Fate of Exiles to USSR,...
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Category: XXw, History and film, News, Cultural history, Memory studies, Historical Policy
The film director Andrzej Wajda dies at age 90
10 October 2016
Acclaimed film director Andrzej Wajda has died at 90, after recent medical treatment led to an induced coma. He is survived by his spouse, the renowned scenographer Krystyna Zachwatowicz, and mourned in Poland and internationally.
Wajda’s storied career has spanned six decades of...
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Category: Holocaust, History and film, XXw, News, Cultural history, Memory studies, history of Polish culture
Zofia Posmysz interview: The Passenger – history on stage in the West and in Russia
01 September 2016
The acclaimed opera The Passenger by composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg returns to Warsaw for performances at Teatr Wielki – the National Opera, in its world-premiere production from 2010, directed by Sir David Pountney. The libretto to Weinberg’s late-1960s opera, with staging levels in...
