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Sherman Tank of Polish I Corps fighting in Western Europe during WWII Norden M2WS bombsight Interior of the museum. The Museum of the Second World War (Polish: Muzeum II Wojny Światowej) is a state cultural institution and museum established in 2008 in Gdańsk, Poland, which is devoted to the Second World War. Its exhibits opened in 2017.
The Łańcut Castle Museum began the Ulma-Family Museum's construction in 2013, [2] and the new Museum opened on 17 March 2016. [3] On 30 June 2017, pursuant to an agreement of 23 June 2017 entered into by Subcarpathian Province and Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Museum was incorporated as an independent legal entity ...
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The Home Army Museum (Polish: Muzeum Armii Krajowej) was created in Kraków, Poland in 2000, to commemorate the struggle for independence by the underground Polish Secret State and its military arm, the Hope Army, the largest resistance movement in occupied Europe during World War II. [1] The museum is named after general Emil August Fieldorf ...
The Polish government has preserved the site as a research centre and in memory of the 1.1 million people who died there, including 960,000 Jews, during World War II and the Holocaust. [4] It became a World Heritage Site in 1979. Piotr Cywiński is the museum's director. [5]
The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World War II. Following the German–Soviet non-aggression pact, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on 1 September 1939 and by the Soviet Union on 17 September.
The museum also collects documents and historical materials relating to the history of the city and the region, and objects related to military history from World War II onwards. [2] The museum is housed in the former residence of the superintendent of the Rejów foundry, which was built in 1836–1838.
The Majdanek State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku) [3] is a memorial museum and education centre founded in the fall of 1944 on the grounds of the Nazi Germany Majdanek death camp located in Lublin, Poland. It was the first museum of its kind in the world, [4] devoted entirely to the memory of atrocities committed in the network ...