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Category: History

Auschwitz: A Powerful Photo Essay

HistoryPoland IYP EditorDecember 2, 20190

A powerful and sombre photo essay on the Auschwitz Museum and Memorial.

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HistoryAndrew ElliottJuly 31, 20180

Warsaw: Scars of the Uprising

Despite becoming a slick modern city, there are still signs of the Uprising all around, battle scars which remain on the…
Art & CultureMartin KitsonApril 18, 20181

Light up the shipyard – Vote for your favourite crane illumination

You have until tomorrow (Thursday 19th) at 21:00 to cast your vote to choose the best design for illuminating one of…
HistoryPoland IYP EditorFebruary 26, 20180

Photo Essay: Military Mausoleum or Junkyard

A photo essay by local photographer, Mat Fahrenholz, featuring the military artifacts in the courtyard outside the Polish Army Museum. If…
HistoryPoland IYP EditorJanuary 27, 20180

Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Aesthetics of Traumatic Memory

Countless memorials, monuments, mausoleums, museums, plaques and other tokens of remembrance have been erected. All of them present and meant to…
HistoryAndrew ElliottJuly 31, 20170

01 August – Warsaw Uprising Anniversary and Street Art

Gdansk / Tri-CityMartin KitsonApril 5, 20170

The Battle Over the Future of the Museum of the Second World War

HistoryPoland IYP EditorFebruary 4, 20170

On Kościuszko’s Trail in Kraków

HistoryPoland IYP EditorNovember 9, 20160

Remembrance Day

Every year the British Embassy holds a Remembrance Day ceremony in Skaryszewski Park - by the monument to the Royal Air…
HistoryMat FahrenholzOctober 2, 20160

After 63 days

Gdansk / Tri-CityJuan M Sarabia GutiérrezSeptember 1, 20160

77 Years After

HistoryPoland IYP EditorAugust 1, 20161

Warsaw Uprising 1944

HistoryPoland IYP EditorJuly 7, 20160

Monuments to Soviet Troops to be Removed

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