Posts by Gene Sokolowski

For professors, college students, and interested adults) This work, published by the Institute of National Remembrance, describes and categorizes the crimes of the communist authorities that were committed worldwide throughout the 20th century. Wojciech Roszkowski bases his work on numerous sources, including the hearings conducted by the Commission of the House of Representatives for Communist…

(For professors, college and high-school students, and interested adults) During the occupation of Poland by the Germans, the words “Aleja Szucha” (English: Szucha Avenue) inspired terror among Warsaw’s citizens. Aleja Szucha was the place where thousands of Polish citizens were tortured. Each of them suffered severely during the interrogations, which involved brutal beatings carried out…

(For professors, college students, teachers, and adults). “Witness” plays an important role in Wojtyła’s dissertation: “Faith According to St. John of the Cross” where, it seems to demonstrate a potent but obscure philosophical meaning. In subsequent early works the term seems to recede into the background while maintaining an indirect presence through the Polish words…

The Mysterious Death of Jan “Anoda” Rodowicz, by Przemyslaw Benken (For professors, college students, and interested adults) The following are extracts of the Foreword by Pawel Kurtyka, President of the Janusz Kurtyka Foundation. This book is available free of charge as a PDF and can be downloaded at this link. The story of “Anoda” is…

(For professors, college students, and interested adults) This work is available free of charge online through Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance at this link. Foreword by Professor Emeritus Hiroaki Kuromiya Poland has long been a powerhouse of Russian/Soviet studies. Because of its historical connections (including the Russian occupation of large parts of Poland following the…

(For professors, college students, and interested adults) A PDF of this book can be read at this link. The following is the Foreword by Dr. Karol Nawrocki, President, The Institute of National Remembrance. “In May 1945, Western Europe was celebrating victory over Germany. At that time, Central and Eastern Europe was already completely controlled by…

(For professors, college students, teachers, and adults). This scholarly work by Sławomir Dębski was first published in Polish as Między Berlinem a Moskwą. Stosunki niemiecko-sowieckie, Warszawa PISM 2003, second edition 2007. It was later published in German. This English-language edition was submitted to the publisher, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, by the Janusz Kurtyka Foundation. When the…

This work is available free of charge online through Poland’s Janusz Kurtyka Foundation at this link. (For professors, college students, teachers, and adults). In this scholarly work, Professor Andrzej Nowak examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a…

(For professors, college students, and interested adults) This scholarly lexicon was compiled by Dariusz Iwaneczko and published in 2024 by The Institute of National Remembrance, Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation. The following are excerpts from the Introduction by Dariusz Iwaneczko. “The issue of the camps and prisons organized by the…