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10 June this year saw another sitting of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of the Second World War. During that sitting most attention was devoted to the Museum’s current activity, its construction, and the progress in the execution of its main exhibition. Moreover, the members of the Advisory Board saw the Museum’s temporary exhibition‘‘45.

On 6 May 2015 the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk signed a contract with the Qumak Company, as the consortium leader, for the execution of the main exhibition.

On 20-22 May 2015 Museum of the Second World War organised the 2nd edition of the totalitarian propaganda film festival at the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre at Bogusławskiego Street 1.

The Museum of the Second World War took part in this annual event for the fifth time and prepared a specially organised educational zone.

On 7 May 2015 leaders of European states arrived in Gdańsk at the invitation of the Polish President, Bronisław Komorowski, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

‘The Legacy of the Second World War from a 70-Year Perspective’ international historians’ conference was held at the European Solidarity Centre during 6-7 May. Its organisers were the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, the Museum of the Second World War, and the European Solidarity Centre.

6 May marked the opening of the Museum of the Second World War’s exhibition titled ‘‘45. End of the war in 45 Artefacts’. It will be available to visitors at the European Solidarity Centre.

Joanna Urbanek’s album Codzienność w cieniu terroru. Okupacja niemiecka w Polsce 1939–1945 [Everyday life in the shadow of terror.

It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to Professor Władysław Bartoszewski, a member of the Advisory Board of the Museum of the Second World War, who passed away on 24 April 2015. He was one of the most eminent Poles, an ambassador of Polish-German reconciliation and co-creator of Polish diplomacy after 1989.