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We are having a meeting with Dr. Ewa Kowalska and Katarzyna Ziębik - researchers from the Institute of National Remembrance, members of the team working on the materials of the famous Archive of the Kraków chemist and toxicologist, Dr. Jan Robel.

The meeting will bring about to our attention the nature of the source materials - documents excavated from the Katyń death pits in the spring of 1943 during exhumation works initiated by the Germans. Most of these finds - as far as we know - were then taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science in Kraków, where they were examined and conserved. What the present-day team of researchers from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) has taken up is a large-scale attempt at a comprehensive study of the surviving documentation known as the titular “Archive of Dr. Jan Robel”.

The results of the findings have been included in the publication entitled When Silent Graves Speak Up... The Archive of Dr. Jan Zygmunt Robel, and its co-authors will talk about, among other things, how many very diverse things, including information of a social and cultural nature, can be found ‘between the lines’ of the saved documents. That's how - again referring to the title of the event - speak up the (apparently) silent graves.

You are cordially invited to the Museum building at 3 Minorytów Street in Opole on 4 November, at 11.00 a.m - admission free.

Invitation to A Moving Testimony. The Archive of Dr. Jan Robel