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Last Thursday, 12 February 2015, in the Warsaw University Gallery in the Kazimierz Palace the „Routes of Liberation.
On 12 November 2014, a discussion of Dirk Brauns’s Café Auschwitz wasorganised in the European Solidarity Centre, by the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, the European Solidarity Centre, the Akcent Publishing House and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
The book A War after the War. The anti-Soviet Underground in East Central Europe in 1944–53 written by Grzegorz Motyka, Rafał Wnuk, Tomasz Stryjek and Adam F. Baran, published by the Museum of the Second World War, received the Jerzy Giedroyc Award.
On 19 September 2014, Director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk Prof. dr hab. Paweł Machcewicz and Director of the National Museum in Szczecin Lech Karwowski, opened the temporary exhibition “So it is war then…! The Experiences of civilians in 1939”.
On the evening of 1 September, the President of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski, his wife, and the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Joachim Gauck attended a special show of film and multimedia performance “The Explosion” by Andrzej Wajda, produced by the Museum of the Second World War.
On 1 September, the Museum featured a unique film and multimedia performance “The Explosion” by Andrzej Wajda in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War.
Professor Norman Davies, who serves as the chairman of the Museum of the Second World War Advisory Board, received Polish citizenship from President Bronisław Komorowski in a ceremony in Warsaw's Belvedere Palace on 4 July this year.
On 24 June an official presentation of the Liberation Route Europe took place on Plac Inwalidów in Warsaw, at the Monument of the Polish 1st Armoured Division.
On 6 June in Arromanches, France there was an official launch of the international history-tourism project Liberation Route Europe conducted together by the Museum of the Second World War and its partners from the Netherlands, France, Great Britain and Germany.