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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.
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”.