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Exhibition “586 Days of Martial Law” in Warsaw Posted by on Dec 14, 2011 in Culture, Current News, Places to visit, Regulations

Yesterday I reminded you about the 30th anniversary of marital law in Poland.

Today some more news.  Due to the 30th anniversary of introduction of martial law in Poland, IPN’s Public Education Office and the Warsaw Branch of the Public Education Office prepared the exhibition “586 Days of Martial Law”. The opening took place on 13 December 2011.

The exhibition will be on display until 29 December at Plac Zamkowy in Warsaw.

The Warsaw exhibition is part of nationwide series, during which the anniversary exhibitions are presented simultaneously in several cities in Poland, including Białystok, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Łódź, Szczecin, and Toruń. In each of the local presentations the regional aspects are expanded.

Exhibition panels, stylized to look like an old calendar, describe major events while maintaining the effect through suggestive pictures and documents, bringing closer the portrait of years 1981-1983. The exhibition commemorates personal dramas of the victims, individual acts of resistance of Poles, as well as the diversity of attitudes of a divided society.

Images from prisons, ad hoc meetings of the courts and funerals, are interwoven with grand politics – spectacular military and “Milicja” operations, mass demonstrations of the opposition, street fighting – as well as images of everyday life in socialist reality.

One of the themes of the exhibition also presents the reactions of the world, divided by the Iron Curtain, toward the dramatic events in Poland.

Do następnego razu… (Till next time…)

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My name is Kasia Scontsas. I grew near Lublin, Poland and moved to Warsaw to study International Business. I have passion for languages: any languages! Currently I live in New Hampshire. I enjoy skiing, kayaking, biking and paddle boarding. My husband speaks a little Polish, but our daughters are fluent in it! I wanted to make sure that they can communicate with their Polish relatives in our native language. Teaching them Polish since they were born was the best thing I could have given them! I have been writing about learning Polish language and culture for Transparent Language’s Polish Blog since 2010.


Comments:

  1. Jack:

    Do you (or does anyone)have any idea whether the same display or at least the copy of the text from the exhibition panels might be available online? I’ll bet it’s absolutely fascinating!