The Institute of National Remembrance –Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives with investigative and lustration powers. The IPN was established by the Polish parliament by the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance of 18 December 1998,which incorporated the earlier Main Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation of 1991. IPN itself had replaced a body on Nazi crimes established in 1945.
The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne,German-occupied Poland,on 10 July 1941,during World War II and the early stages of the Holocaust. At least 340 men,women and children were murdered,some 300 of whom were locked in a barn which was then set on fire. About 40 Poles carried out the killing,the ringleaders having decided on it with German secret police or intelligence officials beforehand. It was overseen by German military police who according to Jan Gross were "the only ones who could decide the fate of the Jews" at the massacre.
Marek Marian Belka is a Polish professor of Economics and politician,has served as a Prime Minister of Poland and Finance Minister of Poland in two governments. Former Director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) European Department and former Head of Narodowy Bank Polski. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019.
Sir David Cannadine is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history,Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University,a Visiting Professor of History at Oxford University,and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has been the President of the British Academy since 2017,the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He also serves as the Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and Vice-Chair of the Editorial Board of Past &Present.
Lustration is the purge of government officials in Central and Eastern Europe. Various forms of lustration were employed in post-communist Europe.
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,located in Washington,D.C.,is a United States Presidential Memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968. Named in honor of President Woodrow Wilson,the only president of the United States to hold a PhD,it is also a think tank,ranked multiple times by the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program as among the ten best in the world.
Jan Tomasz Gross is a Polish-American sociologist and historian. He is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society,emeritus,and Professor of History,emeritus,at Princeton University.
Bronisław Maria Komorowski is a Polish politician and historian who served as President of Poland from 2010 to 2015.
Pan Yunhe is a Chinese specialist in artificial intelligence and geographic information systems. He served as President of Zhejiang University and Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union,specifically the NKVD in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere,the massacre is named after the Katyn Forest,where some of the mass graves were first discovered by German forces.
Jan Strelau was a Polish psychologist best known for his studies on temperament. He was professor of psychology at Warsaw University from 1968 to 2001 and was since 2001 professor at Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities,where he took the positions of Vice-rector for Research and International Affairs (2002–2010),Vice-rector for Research (2010–2012),and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (2012–2016).
Łukasz Andrzej Kamiński is a Polish historian,specializing in the history of Poland after 1945,particularly the period of Soviet occupation and the Polish People's Republic. He is the President of the European Union's Platform of European Memory and Conscience and formerly served as President of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) from 2011 to 2016.
Jan Kobylański was a Polish-Paraguayan businessman. He was the founder of the Union of Polish Associations and Organizations in Latin America the largest Polish immigrant organization of South America. He was also a founder of one of the world's largest companies involved in editing postage stamps,and coins mintage. He has written books on philately,as well as on the mediation policy of the Roman Curia. He was formerly the honorary consul of Poland to Paraguay,and the honorary consul of Paraguay to Santa Cruz de Tenerife,Spain.
Grzegorz Motyka is a Polish historian and author specializing in the history of Poland–Ukraine relations. Since 1992 he served at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of National Remembrance.
PawełMateusz Machcewicz is a Polish historian and university professor.
Tomasz Piotr Poręba is a polish politician,civil servant and journalist,Member of the European Parliament in VII,VIII,IX term from Poland,historian and political scientist.
Prof. Tadeusz Wojciech Wolsza originally from Oława,is a Polish historian and social scientist,professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN);university lecturer,and board member of the Warsaw Institute of National Remembrance since 2011.
Piotr Tadeusz Gliński is a Polish sociologist,professor,university lecturer and politician. He served as President of the Polish Sociological Association from 2005 to 2011. He was the nominee of Law and Justice,the largest opposition party,for Prime Minister of Poland. In the cabinet of Beata Szydło,he served as the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the Law and Justice government.
Wojciech Jerzy Muszyński is a Polish historian and researcher. His points of interest are the latest history of Poland and military history.
Karol Tadeusz Nawrocki is a Polish historian.
