He may be the successor of Karol Nawrocki at the Institute of National Remembrance. There is a name
“On October 28, 2025, a meeting of the IPN College was held, during which interviews with candidates for the position of President of the Institute took place. After listening to the candidates, asking them questions and deliberations, the IPN College decided that the best candidate was Dr. Hab. Karol Polejowski, current deputy president of the Institute of National Remembrance” – stated in the announcement.
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Chairman of the College, prof. Wojciech Polak, handed an official document with a recommendation to Stanisław Zazdrowiemski, director general in charge of the Office of the Speaker of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, acting on the authority of Marshal Szymon Hołownia. According to the regulations, the President of the Institute of National Remembrance is appointed by the Sejm at the request of the College, with the consent of the Senate.
During the audition of candidates, Dr. hab. Polejowski emphasized that he was against the idea of excluding the investigative department from the Institute and transferring it to the prosecutor's office. He also announced an increase in the use of artificial intelligence in the work of the IPN archive and the commencement of research on the process of collectivization of the Polish countryside after World War II, treating it as an element of the Sovietization of the country.
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Ph.D. Karol Polejowski – who is he?
Ph.D. Karol Polejowski is a graduate of the Faculty of History of the University of Gdańsk, where in 2000 he defended his doctorate on the origins and development of the estates of the Teutonic Order in France until the mid-14th century. In 2016, he obtained his habilitation on the basis of the thesis “Matrimonium et crux: the growth and career of the Brienne family during the Crusades (until the beginning of the 14th century)”.
In the past, he worked at the Department of Romance Philology at the University of Gdańsk, and also as a museum curator, among others. at the Castle Museum in Malbork and the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, where he has been a curator since 2020. He researches the history of the Polish independence underground, the Polish Armed Forces in the West and the activities of the Polish People's Army against the underground after 1944.
Polejowski is the author of numerous scientific publications, including several articles in English and French. He translates historical literature from French and is a member of the magazine's editorial board War and Memory and a scholarship holder of the Lanckoroński Foundation in Rome.
For his activities in documenting and cultivating the truth about Polish history, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In July 2021, he was appointed deputy president of the Institute of National Remembrance.
If the College's recommendation is accepted by the Sejm and approved by the Senate, Polejowski will replace the current president of the Institute.
