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Polskiego Uniwersytetu na Obczyźnie (PUNO)
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25 February 2026
Prof. Paweł Machcewicz (Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Moczar`s “Partisans”: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, Historical Myths
“The Partisans” were in the 1960s a very influential political group within the communist party and state apparatus in Poland. Led by Mieczysław Moczar, the minister of interior and leader of the veterans` associations (during the WW II he was a famous commander of the communist resistance), they founded a dynamic political movement which strongly influenced not only politics, but also mass-media and culture. Their ideology based on nationalism, anti-Semitism and exploitation of Polish history – especially its non-communist aspects which helped attract followers from outside the ruling party. “The Partisans” undertook the most far-reaching attempt to shape the Polish model of national communism and were often compared by contemporary observers and analysts with parallel developments in Romania.
Paweł Machcewicz is a historian, professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. From 2008 to 2017, he was the founding director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. He has taught at the Warsaw University and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and was director of research and education at the Institute of National Remembrance in 2000-2006.
His main areas of research are the Second World War, the Cold War and communist regimes in East-Central Europe. His many books include: Rebellious Satellite. Poland 1956 (Woodrow Wilson Center-Stanford University Press, Washington DC-Stanford, 2009); Poland`s War on Radio Free Europe 1950-1989 (Woodrow Wilson Center-Stanford University Press, Washington DC-Stanford, 2014); The War That Never Ends. The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk (De Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2019); Wina, kara, polityka. Rozliczenia ze zbrodniami II wojny światowej (with Andrzej Paczkowski; Znak, Kraków 2021); Narodowy komunizm po polsku. „Partyzanci” Moczara (Krytyka Polityczna, Warszawa 2025).
Topic: PUNO: History Seminar
Time: Feb 25, 2026 18:30 London
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Polskiego Uniwersytetu na Obczyźnie (PUNO)
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Ochrona zdrowia podczas fazy nadaktywnego słońca (do 2035 r.)
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14 January 2026 | Dr. Pawel Duber (PUNO, London)
Deprivation of Citizenship and Diplomatic Fallout: The 6 October 1938 Ordinance in Polish–Swiss Relations, 1938–1940
Following the Anschluss and the failure of the Evian Conference, on the 6 October 1938 Poland issued an ordinance requiring passport revalidation, effectively preventing many Jews from returning. Switzerland responded by tightening visa requirements and expressing concerns over reliability of Polish passports. The paper focuses on the impact of this law on the diplomatic relations between both countries and the role of Tytus Komarnicki, Polish envoy to Switzerland, whose initially liberal stance shifted toward strict enforcement of the aforementioned ordinance. Drawing on previously unused archival sources, the study reveals how both countries navigated through legal, diplomatic, and humanitarian challenges amid worsening geopolitical conditions and after the outbreak of World War II.
Dr hab. Paweł Duber is a historian and lecturer in the Unit of European History at the Polish University Abroad, as well as a history teacher in British schools. He graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice and has worked at various cultural and academic institutions, including the University of Warsaw, the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek, and Nottingham Trent University. He earned his PhD in 2009 at the Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk and completed his habilitation in 2015 at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. His research focuses on the political history of Poland after 1918, 20th-century Central and Eastern Europe, Polish political and military emigration after 1939, the history of diplomacy and international relations, and the politics of memory. He is the author / co-author of several books and nearly one hundred scholarly and popular articles. His most recent book, a biography of the Polish diplomat and lawyer Tytus Komarnicki, is being published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw.
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Serdeczne życzenia zdrowia, spokoju i życzliwości losu na Święta Bożego Narodzenia oraz na Nowy Rok 2026
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Rektor prof. Włodzimierz Mier-Jędrzejowicz,
Senat i cała społeczność akademicka Polskiego Uniwersytetu na Obczyźnie (Registered Charity no 298510)
10 grudnia 2025 z Jacobem Flawsem z Kean University w New Jersey, USA
Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp
Spaces of Treblinka utilizes testimonies, oral histories, and recollections from Jewish, German, and Polish witnesses to create a holistic representation of the Treblinka death camp during its operation. This narrative rejects the historical misconception that Treblinka was an isolated Nazi extermination camp with few witnesses and fewer survivors. Rather than the secret, sanitized site of industrial killing Treblinka was intended to be, Jacob Flaws argues, Treblinka’s mass murder was well known to the nearby townspeople who experienced the sights, sounds, smells, people, bodies, and train cars the camp ejected into the surrounding world.
Through spatial reality, Flaws portrays the conceptions, fantasies, ideological assumptions, and memories of Treblinka from witnesses in the camp and surrounding towns. To do so he identifies six key spaces that once composed the historical site of Treblinka: the ideological space, the behavioral space, the space of life and death, the interactional space, the sensory space, and the extended space. By examining these spaces Flaws reveals that there were more witnesses to Treblinka than previously realized, as the transnational groups near and within the camp overlapped and interacted. Spaces of Treblinka provides a staggering and profound reassessment of the relationship between knowing and not knowing and asks us to confront the timely warning that we, in our modern, interconnected world, can all become witnesses. See https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781496239730/spaces-of-treblinka/
Dr. Jacob Flaws is an assistant professor of history at Kean University in Union, NJ where he teaches on topics in Modern European history, the Holocaust, and global genocide. He is the author of the 2024 book Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp, published by the University of Nebraska Press, as well as several other journal articles and book chapters. Flaws earned his Ph.D. In history from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
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