The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives which also includes
IPN headquarters at 1 Kurtyki Street in Warsaw
Main entrance
Leon Kieres
Janusz Kurtyka
Lustration
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Lustration in Central and Eastern Europe is the official public procedure of scrutinizing a public official or a candidate for public office in terms of their history as a witting confidential collabo
Institute of National Remembrance
…humanity. On 15 March 2007, an amendment to the Polish law regulating the IPN (enacted on 18 December 2006) came into effect. The change gave the IPN new lustration powers and expanded IPN's file access. The change was enacted by Law and Justice government in a series of legislative amendments during 2006 and the…
Drawing of a relief from the Karnak temple in Egypt showing a pharaoh lustrating with incense