Yesterday I reminded you about the 30th anniversary of marital law in Poland.<\/p>\n
Today some more news. \u00a0Due to the 30th anniversary of introduction of martial law in Poland, IPN\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
The exhibition will be on display until 29 December at Plac Zamkowy in Warsaw.<\/p>\n
The Warsaw exhibition is part of nationwide series, during which the anniversary exhibitions are presented simultaneously in several cities in Poland, including Bia\u0142ystok, Gda\u0144sk, Katowice, Krak\u00f3w, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Szczecin, and Toru\u0144. In each of the local presentations the regional aspects are expanded.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Images from prisons, ad hoc meetings of the courts and funerals, are interwoven with grand politics \u2013 spectacular military and \u201cMilicja\u201d operations, mass demonstrations of the opposition, street fighting \u2013 as well as images of everyday life in socialist reality.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Do nast<\/strong>\u0119pnego razu… <\/strong>(Till next time…)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I reminded you about the 30th anniversary of marital law in Poland. Today some more news. \u00a0Due to the 30th anniversary of introduction of martial law in Poland, IPN\u2019s 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…<\/p>\n