On 6 August 2024, the Deputy President of the IPN laid flowers at the Canadian-polish Memorial, located in front of the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw. The ceremony was also attended, among others, by IPN International Cooperation Office Director Agnieszka Jedrzak and Canadian Ambassador to Poland Catherine Godin, as well as representatives of the 1st Polish Armored Division Family Association.
In the first days of August 1944, the 1st Armored Division commanded by General Stanisław Maczek entered combat against the Germans in the Battle of Normandy. It stood alongside the Canadian Armored Division and, together launched an attack towards Falaise. Over the next few months, until May 1945, Polish and Canadian soldiers took part in the liberation of northeastern France, Belgium and the Netherlands from German occupation, to complete the combat trail in early May 1945 in northern Germany.

For the Canadians, it was a distant war in Europe; for the Poles, it was a fight aimed at defeating the German state which had occupied Poland since 1939. However, for both Poles and Canadians it was a war for your freedom and ours. A war against German enslavement and genocide, a fight for a world without fear and persecution – said Deputy President Polejowski during his speech.

He also recalled that in March 2023, the “Trails of Hope. The Odyssey of Freedom” exhibition was presented at the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the largest military history museum in Toronto and that he had the privilege of participating in the unveiling of a plaque in honor of the crew of the Polish destroyer ORP Ślązak, who saved the lives of 85 Canadian soldiers during  the landing at Dieppe, France on 19 August 1942.The commemoration was prepared by the IPN Office of Commemorating the Struggle and Martyrdom.