The Platform of European Memory and Conscience (PEMC), of which the IPN is a founding member, with its partners has launched the new online exhibition Century of Martyrs.

The IPN has supplied its archival materials and data for two figures: Father Maksymilian Kolbe (to be presented in the future traveling version of the exhibition) and Father Jerzy Popiełuszko.

The exhibition “introduces 27 individuals, men and women, from various European states who devoted their lives to the service of God, people and society. Their activities, attitudes and positions represented a ‘threat’ to the newly emerging non-democratic totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. These people became the conscience and inconvenient witnesses to the perversity of these regimes and were therefore systematically silenced. Recalling the fate of people, their lives and the testimonies they left us, who suffered for their commitment to their inner convictions and beliefs, helps us to better understand the true meaning of values like freedom, truth and democracy” can be read in the Platform’s Press Release.

The exhibition is available here: centuryofmartyrs.eu