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Owing to the current situation with spreading COVID19 virus as well as inquiries from potential participants about the possibility of extending the papers submission deadline, we have decided to extend the deadline until 15 April 2020.
Due to the undertaken decisive steps to prevent the spread of SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, with regard to the decision of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of 11 March 2020 on the temporary closing of institutions of culture:
On 5 March 2020, the President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and his wife Eliza Jean Reid visited the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. The guests visited the main exhibition, the exhibition for children as well as the temporary exhibition.
The New Zealand National Library in Wellington hosted an opening of the exhibition entitled “Fighting and Suffering”. The exhibition opening was accompanied by a public lecture “The Beginning of Evil. Fighting and Suffering” delivered by Mr Karol Nawrocki, PhD, Director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk.
On 12.02.2020 the Museum of the Second World War was visited by James Whitham, the Deputy Director of the Canadian War Museum.
They are referred to as “the children of Pahiatua”. The lives of the Polish children deported by the Soviets in 1940 were made a living hell by the exile. Saved by a miracle, they escaped the “inhuman land” together with the newly formed army of General Władysław Anders. After the toils of a long and arduous travel, the orphans and half-orphans found their new home at the Pahiatua camp in New Zealand. They also became the protagonists of a series of filmed interviews produced by the Film Documentation Department at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk.
The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk hosted a screening of the documentary “Memory is our homeland” [Polish:Pamięć jest naszą ojczyzną] attended by the director, Jonathan Durand. The documentary tells the story of thousands of Polish women and children, who after having escaped Soviet labour camps, sought refuge in Africa.
The El-Alamein Military Museum in Egypt was established to commemorate the Egyptian role in one of the most important battles of WWII, which took place in 1942, when the Allied Forces fought the Axis Powers in North Africa.