The Pilecki Institute was accused of planning government seminars on the return of cultural goods by Poland, among others. To Germany, why the facility powerfully denied.
Former Minister of Culture Piotr Gliński demands resignation of the manager of the Institute after media reports on planned meetings.
The Ministry of Culture emphasizes that seminars are to focus on investigation on Polish property looted during planet War II, not cultural property returns.
The Pilecki Institute issued a message rejecting allegations and pointing to false suggestions regarding the intent of the events.
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As “Rzeczpospolita”, at the end of July the head of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin Hanna Radziejowska sent a letter to new Minister of Culture Marty Szenkowska and chargé d’affaires embassies in Berlin Jan Tombiński.
Radejowska informed that Krzysztof Ruchniewicz had a series of seminars on returns of cultural goods by Poland for Germany, Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania "and private property belonging to judaic people".
Radejowska pointed out in her letter that, due to the organisation in agreement with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the event would have a government nature, which in her opinion is "conflicting with state policy Polish and wakes serious concerns on the negative consequences both for MKiDN and the Pilecki Institute."
The controversial thought of the head of the Pilecki Institute. Ministry explains
The diary asked the ministry about this situation. In his reply, the Ministry stated that "as part of the activities strengthening the exchange of cognition and expert cooperation, the Pilecki Institute is preparing a series of global seminars entitled 'Rounded (yet) not recovered. Polish property looted during planet War II in the light of the demonstration studies’.
"Cykl is to be devoted to the good of culture which Poland lost as a consequence of the plunder during planet War II. Seminars involving specialists from Poland and abroad will be held in Warsaw, at the Institute's headquarters. The first is scheduled for 3 September 2025. The series of seminars will end with a conference scheduled for May 2027" - said the press spokesperson of the ministry Piotr Jędrzejowski.
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In addition, 1 of the scientists active in the plundered property took the floor. In a letter addressed to MKDiN and MFA, he stated that Ruchniewicz, after reading his reports, "instead of continuing cooperation on fresh principles", planned "take over his intellectual achievements".
Neither Hanna Radziejowska nor Krzysztof Ruchniewicz responded to the journal's request for comment on the case.
"Absurd, scandal". PiS politician wants to resign the head of the Pilecki Institute
Reports on the thought of Ruchniewicz were besides commented by the erstwhile Minister of Culture Piotr Gliński. – Another scandal with the Pilecki Institute. We learn that he planned a conference together with Germany, about Poland's donation of cultural goods to Germany – he assessed the policy of the Law and Justice.
– Absurd connected with the fact that this institution and the Ministry of Culture do not fulfil the basic obligations towards the interests of the Polish State – Gliński added.
He besides stated that "It's about time" for Juchniewicz to resign. "I call on the Minister of Culture and Prime Minister Donald Tusk to immediately dismiss manager Ruchniewicz from his post," he stressed.
Statement by the Pilecki Institute
Tuesday afternoon Pilecki Institute He issued a message in which he denied that any discussions on Poland's return of cultural goods should be held under his auspices.
"The Pilecki Institute, together with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, organises a series of global seminars on congressional investigation Polish cultural goods looted during planet War II. Instytut against false suggestions by Hanna Radziejowska, employees of the Pilecki Institute, manager of the Berlin branch never planned to hold meetings intended to lead to the transfer of any cultural goods in Poland to any legal or physical person," said the spokesperson of the Luiza Jurgiel-Żyła Institute.
She recalled that the Institute is simply a investigation unit that conducts investigation on various phenomena of the functioning of totalitarian governments of the 20th century., especially Nazi and Soviet. "Among them besides attempts to destruct cultures and lie history. This includes investigation on the origin of cultural goods located in different places in Europe," she added.
"Lying Suggestions"
She said that “the problem involved specialist technological seminars organised in Warsaw in cooperation with the branch of the Institute in Berlin.’
According to her, “quoted by the 'Rzeczpospolita' text called ‘the letter of 1 of the researchers dealing with looted property’ contains numerous speeches and the fact goes away‘.
‘The Pilecki Institute rejects any, False Suggestionsthat he conducts activities not in accordance with the policy and rationale of the state of Poland, in peculiar that any discussions about return of cultural goods by Poland“” stressed Luiza Jurgiel-Żyła.
. She added, “The Pilecki Institute states that the 'Rzeczpospolita' an effort to undermine the authority of the individual and its director shall be carried out in a manner which reconciles the basic standards of journalism."
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