Member country since: 1999
Remembrance Days: 27 January (International Holocaust Remembrance Day), 19 April (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), 2 August (Commemoration of the Roma and Sinti Genocide)
Jan Lazicki (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Deputy Head of Delegation
Grzegorz Berendt (Museum of the Second World War) – Academic Working Group
Andrzej Kacorzyk (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Maciej Korkuć (Institute of National Remembrance) – Academic Working Group
Wojciech Kozłowski (Pilecki Institute) – Academic Working Group
Tomasz Kranz (Majdanek State Museum) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Malgorzata Skorka (Ministry of Education and Science) – Education Working Group
Albert Stankowski (Warsaw Ghetto Museum) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Piotr Szpanowski (Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Piotr Trojanski (Pedagogical University of Cracow) – Education Working Group
Andrzej Zbikowski (Jewish Historical Institute) – Academic Working Group
Magda Witan (Ministry of Education and Science) – Education Working Group
Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw) – Education Working Group
Following the adoption of the Stockholm Declaration, the Polish government added Holocaust education to school curricula. Holocaust research has developed tremendously since 2000 — now all major universities offer courses in Jewish and Holocaust Studies. The Perpetual Fund of the Auschwitz Birkenau Foundation, which provides the necessary resources for the conservation of the former camp, was also established.
Cooperation with the IHRA has helped to facilitate a more open dialogue within Poland, and in the last fifteen years an honest, multidimensional debate on Polish-Jewish wartime relations has developed. Thanks to the shared efforts of historians, educators, and politicians, the Holocaust has become an important part of public discourse.
Download the 2020 Poland country report (the content of the report is the responsibility of the reporting country).