Łukasz Kamiński


Łukasz Andrzej Kamiński is a Polish historian, specializing in the history of Poland after 1945, particularly the period of Soviet occupation and the Soviet-imposed "Polish People's Republic." He is the President of the European Union's Platform of European Memory and Conscience and formerly served as President of the Institute of National Remembrance from 2011 to 2016.
Kamiński earned his doctorate in 1999, and became deputy director of the IPN Bureau of Public Education in 2006, becoming director of the Bureau of Public Education in 2009. After his predecessor Janusz Kurtyka died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, Kamiński was elected by the Sejm as the third President of the IPN.
He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.

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