On 23 September 2025, a solemn funeral ceremony was held in Vilnius for Edward Borkowski and five other soldiers of the Home Army from the unit commanded by Sergiusz Zyndram-Kościałkowski, known by his nom de guerre “Fakir.”
In New York City, a delegation from the Institute of National Remembrance, led by Deputy President Prof. Karol Polejowski, visited the headquarters of the Polish Army Veterans Association in America (SWAP) – the oldest organisation of Polish veterans in the world, laid a wreath at the Katyń Memorial in Jersey City and met with the President and Executive Director of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America.
The President of the Republic of Poland Karol Nawrocki, First Lady Marta Nawrocka, and Deputy President of the Institute of National Remembrance, Prof. Karol Polejowski, unveiled a plaque honoring the late Prime Minister Jan Olszewski on 21 September 2025, at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania
On 17 September 2025, on the 86th anniversary of the Soviet’s invasion of Poland, at the Field Cathedral of the Polish Army in Warsaw, a funeral ceremony took place for the remains of the victims of the Katyn Massacre, with the participation of the President of the Republic of Poland, Karol Nawrocki.
In consequence of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, on September 17th 1939 the Red Army crossed the borders of Poland thus beginning the occupation of the eastern territories of the Second Republic of Poland, lasting almost two years.
We encourage you to read an article by Prof. Karol Polejowski, Deputy President of the Institute of National Remembrance featured as part of the "Opowiadamy Polskę Światu"/ We are telling the World about Poland project
In the spring of 1940, the Soviets exterminated the flower of the Polish intelligentsia without any legal proceedings. Today, the Russian authorities want to treat this crime as an ordinary offence subject to the statute of limitations.
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