March 2015 – Nicholas Siekierski, PhD

Polskie Zbiory Instytutu Hoovera (Polish Collections of the Hoover Institution)

On March 22, 2015

I recently uploaded the PDF of my article written with my father Dr. Maciej Siekierski: Dziewięćdziesiąt Lat Instytutu Hoovera-Zarys Historii Polskich Zbiorów” (Ninety years of theRead More

Chopin: Prince of the Romantics

On March 16, 2015

Frédéric Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, Poland in 1810. A virtuoso pianist, Chopin is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in history. In Chopin:Prince of theRead More

Boris Nemtsov’s Murder in the Shadow of the Kremlin

On March 10, 2015

Boris Nemtsov, one of the leaders of Russia’s democratic opposition movement, was shot four times in the back and killed while walking with his girlfriendRead More

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The Katyń Memorandum

On March 5, 2015

Seventy-five years ago today, the fate of thousands Polish officers and civil servants, prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, was sealed. These Poles hadRead More

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PhD Update

On March 4, 2015

Since September 2013 I’ve been enrolled as a PhD candidate in the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.Read More

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