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On the European Night of Museums, the Museum of the Second World War prepared a programme of visits to the Westerplatte Peninsula.
On 20 March 2014 Estonia’s President Toomas Hendrik Ilves visited Gdańsk during his official visit to Poland.
On 13 March 2014, a discussion in the ‘Meetings with history’ series addressed the Polish edition of Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews. This three-volume work came out in Poland for the first time in 2014.
On 13 February 2014 the opening ceremony of the exhibition “Routes of Liberation. European Legacies of the Second World War” took place in the European Parliament in Brussels.
It is with great sorrow that we bid farewell to Professor Israel Gutman, a member of the Advisory Board of the Museum of the Second World War, who died on 1 October 2013 in Jerusalem. Professor Gutman was not only an eminent specialist in the history of the Jews and of the Holocaust, who invariably extended his generosity to us.
On 8 September 2013, the Museum of the Second World War organized an educational re-enactment, ‘Pogranicze '39’ [The border region in 1939], at the Museum of Folk Architecture in the Ethnographic Park in Olsztynek.
"In our memory" exhibition
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Director of the Military History Institute Prague Col Ales Knizek and Director of the Museum of the Second World War Prof. Paweł Machcewicz signing a cooperation agreement. Photo: Sylwia Cyrulik
Museum of the Second World War became a member of ICOM, International Council of Museums, organisation of museums and museum professionals with a global scope. The Council was created in 1946, maintains formal relations with UNESCO and has a consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.