EN: Vilnius University Faculty of History, in partnership with the German Historical Institute Warsaw and its Branch Office Vilnius is happy to announce a call for papers for an international…

The German Historical Institute in Warsaw was deeply shocked to learn of the bombing of the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. This attack caused the deaths and…

We are happy to announce the publication of a new English-language handbook on the history of Poland: The Routledge Handbook of the History of Poland, edited by Katrin Steffen, Maciej Górny and…

We are delighted that the Scientific Advisory Board once again issued a positive assessment of our Institute’s activities at this year's meeting. The committee commended the successful realignment of…

We are delighted to invite you once again to our lecture series in Prague this semester, now under its new title, 'Prague Histories Forum'.

The 'Prague Histories Forum' is a joint public lecture…

From the mid-19th century onward, women’s associations of all nationalities began forming in the Habsburg, Prussian and Russian Empires. Polish women’s activism was particularly divided by the three…

What connects young people in Europe today? How did understanding between Germany and Poland develop after the horrors of the occupation during World War II? How is Poland, Germany’s neighbor,…

World War II and the German occupation are among those periods in history that continually raise new questions. New insights, in turn, usually emerge when one combines perspectives and themes that, at…

International Workshop organised by the Department of History, University of Warsaw and the Department of Public History, FernUniversität in Hagen, German Historical Institut Warsaw

Organisation…

Call for Papers

• Un|Covering: Visibility, Denial, and Ambiguity in the Cinematography of the Holocaust
• Conference of the Arbeitsgruppe Cinematographie des Holocaust, 30.11.-2.12.2026 in Łódź
• The…

Since the Middle Ages, most German minority groups had migrated to Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, and various parts of Russia. There, they established settlements…