April
23 rd, 2015
23 rd, 2015
The Kosciuszko Foundation in New York invites all Polish persons whose ancestors or relatives suffered persecution from Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, to volunteer with their oral histories. The Foundation will collect these oral histories as evidence of the fate of Poles in World War 2. The documentation will be open to scholars and other interested persons.
A Look Inside Secret Nazi & Communist Archives
Thursday, April 23, 2015, 6:00PM
The fate of many Poles arrested by Germans and Russians during World War II and after still remain a mystery. On April 23rd, the Kosciuszko Foundation will host experts from Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) to explain their latest project, the Information Issuing Center for Victims of World War II.
The goal of the Center is to provide applicants with information about the citizens of Poland’s Second Republic, victims of the Third Reich and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1939-1956.
The Center’s archives stretch four kilometers long with an internal database of 1.2 million records with data on 3.5 million oppressed people.