Pilecki Institute

Pilecki Institute
Instytut Pileckiego
Formation2017
HeadquartersWarsaw, Poland
Location
Region served
Republic of Poland
Official language
Polish
President
Krzysztof Ruchniewicz
Budget75 million PLN
Websiteinstytutpileckiego.pl/en

The Pilecki Institute (Polish: Instytut Pileckiego; full name Instytut Solidarności i Męstwa imienia Witolda Pileckiego, lit. Witold Pilecki's Institute of Solidarity and Courage) is a Polish government institution in care of preserving the memory, documenting and researching the historical experiences of Polish citizens and increasing awareness regarding totalitarianism in the 20th century. Its patron is Witold Pilecki.

The organization has been called Polish Yad Vashem.

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