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17.08.2015

Exhibition "Fighting Poland" in North America

The exhibition „Fighting Poland” prepared by the Public Education Office embarked on a one-year tour across North America. The first display was held during the „Twin City Polish Festival” in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) on 6-9 August 2015. Later the exhibition will be featured in the following cities of USA and Canada, where large Polish diasporas live: Orchard Lake, Chicago, Ottawa, Toronto, New York, Washington and Boston.

The exhibition recalls the Polish Underground State, a unique phenomenon in the occupied Europe during World War II. It presents beginnings of the Polish underground in September 1939, its development and various forms of underground struggle against both occupiers - the Germans and the Soviets. Archival photographs and documents from the era feature the most important events, including Operation Tempest and the Warsaw Uprising. Also, profiles of the conspirators and partisans of the war years are presented, as well as profiles of the cursed soldiers who continued the fight for Polish independence, resisting the Communist dictatorship. The story is complemented by photographs from exhumations conducted by the Institute of National Remembrance in places where remains of the heroes of Fighting Poland lost in Communist prisons are found and identified.


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