Instytut Pamięci Narodowej

The main principles, considered as the fundamental reasons for the establishment of the Institute were thus defined. These principles were later to become the foundations of the work of the Institute.

The principles defining the work of the Institute of National Remembrance are:

• the preservation of remembrance about the enormity of the number of victims,  losses and damages suffered by the Polish Nation during the Second World War and after it ended,
• the patriotic traditions of the Polish Nation’s struggles with its occupants, Nazis and communists,
• the obligation of prosecuting crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes,
• the actions of Polish citizens in support of the independence of the Polish State and in defense of freedom and human dignity,
• the obligation of the state to compensate all the aggrieved by a state which violated human rights;as an expression of the belief that no unlawful action by the state against the citizens can be classified or forgotten.