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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.

On 17 January 1945, the Red Army entered the ruins of the left-bank Warsaw. Seizure of the capital of Poland by Stalin’s army constituted yet another step on the Soviets and their nominees’ way to conquer Poland.

The inauguration lecture entitled “Hitler and Stalin: the Forgotten Relationship Between the Two Superpowers of World War II” was given by Roger Moorhouse, author of “First to Fight: The Polish War 1939”.

Multimedia outdoor light show POLAND: FIRST TO FIGHT, produced in partnership of Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk and Pixel Artworks, has been awarded the prestigious Drum Experience Award 2019 in the category Event Technology of the Year.

Meeting of the Delegation of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk with Poles in Michigan on 21-24 November 2019 at Orchard Lake Centre and in the Parish of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Sterling Heights.