On 28 April 2025 at Warsaw's Military Powazki Cemetery, the Institute of National Remembrance commemorated the victims of German crimes.
During the ceremony, the Deputy President of the IPN Mateusz Szpytma, Ph.D. recalled that Ravensbrück Concentration Camp which was a camp created exclusively for women, most of whom were Polish.
We have many testimonies, memoirs and accounts that speak about the functioning of the Ravensbrück KL camp, the murders that took place there and the medical experiments conducted by the Germans, said Mateusz Szpytma, Ph.D.
The IPN Deputy President mentioned, among others, Karolina Lanckorońska's war memoirs, Wanda Półtawska's publication “I am afraid of dreams,” and outstanding works of art by Zofia Pociłowska-Kann and Maria Hiszpańska-Neumann, which were created while the camp was still in operation and afterwards.
At the Institute of National Remembrance, we try to make sure that the largest possible groups of young students go to the places where our compatriots suffered. We do this very often in cooperation with associations of relatives of those who were murdered there, added Mateusz Szpytma, Ph.D.
Mateusz Szpytma, Ph.D. laid a wreath at the Monument-Mausoleum of Victims of Nazi Concentration Camps and paid tribute at the memorial to Polish women murdered at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. The memorial “To the memory of Polish women executed and murdered in Ravensbrück concentration camp 1939-1945” was restored by the IPN Office for Commemorating the Struggles and Martyrdom.
The event was attended, among others, by the president of the Ravensbrück German Concentration Camp Prisoners' Family Association Elżbieta Kuta, the vice-president of the Ravensbrück International Committee Hanna Nowakowska, the president of the Ne Cedat Academia Association Monika Małecka, Ph.D, the director of the IPN Office for Commemorating the Struggles and Martyrdom Adam Siwek, and the chaplain of the Warsaw Club of Former Prisoners of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Robert Ogrodnik, Ph.D, who led a prayer for the intention of the victims of German crimes.
The ceremony was organized by the Office for the Commemoration of Struggles and Martyrdom of the Institute of National Remembrance.
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