Re-enactments of historical battles, concerts, happenings, performances, open-air multimedia shows, mural contests, urban games, comic books, motorcycle rallies, or science fiction movie projects are just some of the ways that Poles cherish historical memory and pass it on to younger generations.

Joanna Najfeld reports

Re-enactments of historical battles, dating centuries back, but also those from the last world war, are just one example of how Poles can and do celebrate history. There is also a multitude of other events, like concerts, happenings and performances, open-air multimedia music shows, graffiti contests and urban games, comic books, or bicycle and motorcycle rallies, like the annual rally re-tracing the last journey of victims of the 1940 Katyn genocide committed by Soviets on Poles. Or, HARDKOR44, the recent Warsaw Rising science fiction film project in cooperation with Oscar-nominated and BAFTA award winning Polish short movie maker Tomasz Bagiński.

National Center of Culture is another institution at the forefront of teaching Polish history in a modern way. Especially this year, on the 70th anniversary of World War Two, they have prepared a multitude of projects. Reportedly, the growing variety of educational initiatives available for Polish people to get more familiar with history, is successful in reaching the target audience.

With such care put into the extracurricular education of Poles about their past, those with the ambition to manipulate history on the international scale, better think twice.

 
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