Anniversary celebrations and educational portals

The Institute's Public Education Office coorganises or organises anniversary celebrations regarding crucial events of the Polish history. 

Up to date the following events have been organized: 
 

• 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Workers’ Defence Committee (September 23-24, 2006)
• 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Movement for Defence of Human and Civic Rights (March23, 2007)
• 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Students’ Solidarity Committees (May 7-20, 2007, Cracow)
• 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Free Trade Unions (September 8, 2008, Gdańsk)
• 25th anniversary of the establishment of 'Fighting Solidarity' (June 14-17, 2007, Warsaw-Wrocław)
• 20th anniversary of the 1988 strikes (September 2, 2008, Szczecin)
• 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising
• 20th anniversary of the beggining of the Round Table sessions
• 25th anniversary of the Martial Law 

Further meetings of this kind are being planned, connected with the anniversaries of the 1939 and 1989 events.

Simultaneously, the following educational portals have been launched. Up to date the Institue has opened 11 thematic website - 3 of them also in English:

• Year 1989 – the downfall of the communist system in Poland and Central Europe
  http://www.year1989.pl/ 

• Rotamaster Witold Pilecki – 'a voluntary to Auschwitz'
  www.en.pilecki.ipn.gov.pl

• The Martial Law in Poland - opening December 13, 2009
  www.13grudnia81.pl