Archive for January 2026

(For professors, college students, and interested adults.) This report by the Janusz Kurtyka Foundation presents Russian propaganda and disinformation based on publications in Russian and pro-Russian internet portals in 2023. The publications cited are products of the Russian Federation’s historical policy, which seeks to undermine relations between Poland and Ukraine by distorting their respective histories,…

(For historians, professors, college students, religious academics, and interested adults.) A nun from the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary (RM) Congregation, Mother Matylda Getter was the founder of twenty-five educational and care institutes, honored in the fields of education and charity, decorated with the Order of Polonia Restituta (1925), the Gold Cross of…

(For historians, professors, college students, and interested adults.) The author is with the Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, Poland, and the War Studies University, Warsaw, Poland. It appeared in the Institute of National Remembrance’s Review in February 2020. The image above is from the first page of Dąbrowski’s article and shows the location of the…

(For psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists and interested adults.) Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders by Jan Borowicz is a book based on his doctoral dissertation and presents the thesis that the entire Polish nation is guilty of participating in the Holocaust in one way or another. The author starts by briefly…