Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation organized the international scientific conference entitled „Occupied Europe. Similarities and Differences”. The conference took place on 10-11 May 2011 in Warsaw, at the Janusz Kurtyka Educational Centre, 21/25 Marszałkowska Street.
The conference was held in Polish and French (with simultaneous interpretation).
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
10 May 2011 (Tuesday)
09.30 – Opening
09.45-12.45 Session I- The Occupations. The Terror of the Occupant. – Moderator – Dr Łukasz Kamiński (Poland)
• Prof. Tomasz Szarota (Poland) – Warsaw, Brussels, Paris – the German Occupations – are they totally incomparable?
• Dr Cecile Vast (France) – Methods and Results of German Occupation of France: Repressions and Reprisals on the Resistance.
• Kazimierz J. Latuch (Poland) – Demographic Changes and Loss of Lives in Poland 1939-1945. Governmental Rapports, Historic and Demographic Studies.
• Dr Julien Blanc (France) – French Public Opinion towards Occupation (1940-41)
• Dr Maren Röger (Germany) – (Every)day Life under the German Occupation in France and in Poland. Intimate Relations and «War Children»
• Discussion
14.45 -17.30 Session II – Jewish Question – Moderator Dr Marek Gałęzowski (Poland)
• Dr Danuta Drywa (Poland) - Activity of the Polish Government- in-exile and its Diplomatic Missions in the Saving of Jewish-Polish Refugees in Western Europe during the WWII
• Wojciech Łukaszun (Poland) – Rescue or Danger? Forest Zones at the Territory of the General Government as a Rescue for Jews during the German Occupation
• Professor Rachel Brenner (USA) - Besides Russell, Benda, and Gide: the Concept of Happiness and the Reality of Holocaust in the Journals of Aurelia Wyleżyńska
• Dr Marcin Urynowicz (Poland) Terror of the German Occupant in Western Europe and in Poland in the Works of Polish Writers in the General Government
• Discusson
11 May 2011 (Wednesday)
9.00-11.30 Session III – Polish-Belgian Cooperation – Moderator Dr Władysław Bułhak (Poland)
• Dr Zdzisław Jan Kapera (Poland) – The Establishment of “Branch 300” and its Destiny between June 1940 until November 1942
• Dr Emmanuel Debruyne (Belgium) – Attempts of Polish–Belgian Cooperation in Occupied Belgium (1940-1944)
• Fabrice Maerten (Belgium) – Poles in the Resistance in Occupied Belgium: between Integration and Particularism
• Przemysław Gasztold-Seń – Polish Decorations for the Belgians
• Discussion
13.00-15.0 Session IV - Polish Underground State – Moderator Dr Cecile Vast (France)
• Professor Ney-Krwawicz (Poland) – Military Forces at Home – Home Army (AK)
• Maciej Żuczkowski (Poland) – People’s Guard and Military Organization of Polish Socialist Party in the Military Structures of Polish Underground State
• Agnieszka Dzierżanowska (Poland) – Research Program “Loss of Lives and Victims of Repression under the German Occupation 1939-1945”
• Discussion and Recapitulation