A meeting of the International Commission of the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen took place in Warsaw. The Commission summarized the period of the year-long Polish presidency. The meeting was opened by Dr. Łukasz Kamiński, the President of IPN and Prof. Artur Nowak-Far, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Polish delegation to the Commission included two diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Director of the IPN Archives Wojciech Sawicki.

The meeting of the Committee was held at the IPN Educational Center of the, which made the Institute the co-host this prestigious international event.

The International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen (Germany) was established to document the victims of the Nazi Germany (Holocaust victims, prisoners of concentration camps and the Gestapo arrests, the forced displaced, forced laborers directed from areas of occupation to work in the Third Reich, and post-war refugees etc.). With time, a huge archive of more than 27 km of records was gathered, documenting the fate of about 17.5 million people, including many citizens of the Second Republic.