On Tuesday, 17 March 2015 at 18:00 a promotion of the album Gulag took place in the IPN Educational Center. The album has been created by a photographer and journalist Tomasz Kizny, in collaboration with Dominique Roynette. Sergei Kovalev, a human rights activist, scientist, and former Soviet dissident, Nicolas Werth, eminent French historian, an expert on the history of the Soviet Union, and the author himself took part in the meeting, which will be moderated by Prof. Andrzej Paczkowski.

The publication presents Soviet forced labor camps, such as the former monastery on Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea, gold, coal and uranium mines in Kolyma or the railway from Urals to Yenisey (so called Still Road). It illustrates their history in hundreds of poignant photographs documenting the conditions in which convicts lived and worked. Apart from photographs from the archives, Tomasz Kizny presents his own photography of the former inmates and their descendants, as well as the remains of the camp civilization.

venue:
Janusz Kurtyka IPN Educational Center
Warszawa, ul. Marszałkowska 21/25
17 March 2015 (Tuesday), 6 pm

photos: Piotr Gajewski