For the best Polish-language publication on the history of Polish diplomacy:

The prize:

• Piotr Długołęcki, W obliczu Zagłady. Rząd RP na uchodźstwie wobec Żydów 1939-1945 [Confronting the Holocaust. Documents on the Polish Government-in-Exile's Policy Concerning Jews 1939–1945], Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw, 2022.

Honourable mentions:

• Professor Jan Stanisław Ciechanowski, Czarna legenda Mirandy. Polacy w hiszpańskim obozie internowania w Miranda de Ebro 1940–1945 [The black legend of Miranda. Poles in the Spanish internment camp at Miranda de Ebro, 1940–1945], Oficyna Wydawnicza RYTM, Warsaw, 2022.
• Jarema Słowiak, Wielka improwizacja. Delegacja Polska w Międzynarodowej Komisji Nadzoru i Kontroli w Indochinach w latach 1954–1973 [Great improvisation. Polish delegation to the International Commission for Control and Supervision in Indochina in 1954–1973], Institute of National Remembrance, Szczecin, 2021.

 For the best foreign-language publication promoting Poland’s history:

The prize:

• Professor Hacer Topaktaş Üstüner, Polonezköy: 180 Yıllık Mazi [180 years of the history of Polonezköy], Beykoz Kitaplığı, Istanbul, 2021.

Honourable mentions:

• Patrice M. Dabrowski, PhD, The Carpathians. Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine.
• Jane Rogoyska, Surviving Katyń. Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth.

 

Certificate of recognition:

• Professor Lidia Michalska-Bracha, Józef Kajetan Janowski (1832-1914), Po powstaniu styczniowym… Emigrant, weteran 1863 roku, lwowianin z wyboru [After the January Uprising… An emigrant, a veteran of 1863, a resident of Lviv by choice], Wydawnictwo DiG, Warsaw, 2021.

 

The ceremony was also attended by: First Deputy Governor of the Łódź Province Marcin Buchali, PhD, Chief Education Officer of the Łódź Province Waldemar Flajszer, as well as representatives of the Historical Diplomacy Council to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: Deputy President of the Institute of National Remembrance Professor Karol Polejowski as well as Director of the Museum of the Second World War and President of the International Auschwitz Council to the Prime Minister Professor Grzegorz Berendt. In his address, the head of Polish diplomacy stressed the great value of historical diplomacy for Poles, enabling us to cultivate the national identity based on the spirit of past, present and future generations. "Each year, I am increasingly satisfied that our history, tradition and identity continue to evoke scientific passion of historians all over the world", Minister Rau added.

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