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…

Despite the emphasis on the multicultural character and comparatively tolerant disposition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in contemporary historiography, violence constituted a notable…

Our researcher Iza Mrzygłód was awarded the Marian Turski History Prize by the Polish magazine POLITYKA. She received the prize for her book “ Uniwersytety w cieniu kryzysu. Nacjonalistyczna…

Niemiecki Instytut Historyczny w Warszawie we współpracy z tygodnikiem Polityka organizuje cykl wydarzeń związanych z obchodami 100. rocznicy urodzin Mariana Turskiego. W okresie między 9 a 25 czerwca…

Im November veranstaltet das DHI Warschau gleich zwei internationale Konferenzen zur Holocaustforschung: Die internationale Konferenz „Intimate Memory, Institutional Memory: Reframing Holocaust…

The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw invites scholars to submit abstracts for an international conference devoted to the evolving practices of Holocaust remembrance across…

German-Polish history has recently made its way back into the German and Polish arts and culture sections. The occasion was the controversy surrounding the book " Polnische Bürgermeister und der…

The Max Weber Foundation and the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Warsaw invite you to the conference “Border Matters: Embodiment, Environment, and Infrastructure of Border Spaces” in Warsaw from…

The German Historical Institute (GHI) Warsaw, a research institute of the public-law Max Weber Foundation based in Bonn (Germany), is seeking to employ a research assistant from 1 October 2026, 0.75…