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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.
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.