Opening of the conference

Location: Kashubian Philharmonic – Wejherowo Cultural Center

Welcome speech

Inaugural lecture – Professor Józef Borzyszkowski: Considerations on research into the history of the German occupation of Pomerania during World War II

A presentation of a Polish Post stamp commemorating the Pomeranian Crime of 1939.

The premiere of the documentary film „Pelplin” about the extermination of the clerics of the Chapter of Chełm Diocese in Pelpin Pelpinie in the autumn of 1939, projection time – 30 min. (the film was produced by the Piaśnica Museum as part of the cycle „Mills of History” about the Pomeranian Massacre of 1939)

Presentation of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity  project and exhibition: “In Between? Image and Memory”. The results of the photo workshop of an international student group in Wejherowo

Coffee break

Panel 1

Moderator: Professor Grzegorz Motyka

New methods of occupation policy?

1. New methods of war and occupation policy – SS-Einsatzgruppen – Markus Roth, PhD
2. New methods of war and occupation policy – Selbstschutz – Tomasz Ceran, PhD
3. New methods of war and occupation policy – Soviet sabotage – Professor Daniel Boćkowski

Coffee break

Panel 2

Moderator: Professor Miloš Řeznik

The occupational policy of Nazi Germany

1. The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and the demographic and territorial changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the first period of the occupation (1939-1941) – Professor Eugeniusz C. Król
2. German concepts of a new shape of the occupied Central and Eastern Europe – Professor Isabel Heinemann
3. “Occupation regimes and occupied societies – Two approaches and a comparison of World War II Historiography” – Professor Tatjana Tönsmeyer

Location: Frederic Chopin State Music School no. I in Wejherowo

Panel 3

Moderator: Professor Isabel Heinemann

9.00-11.00. Population policy in the Polish lands

1. German occupation in Poland in the light of the genocide theory – Professor Piotr Madajczyk
2. “September 1939 and summer 1941: National conflict, local insurgencies, and German and other mass violence” – Professor Kai Struve
3. Society between everyday life, resistance and collaboration – Grzegorz Bębnik, PhD
4. Occupiers and occupied: Introduction to the German occupation of Rejencja Ciechanowska – Christhardt Henschel, PhD

Coffee break

The first months of the occupation and annexation of Pomerania (September-December 1939)

– The premiere of the documentary film „Szpęgawsk”, projection time – 30 min. (the film was produced by the Piaśnica Museum as part of the cycle „Mills of History” about the Pomeranian Massacre of 1939) 

Panel 4

Moderator: Professor Wanda Jarząbek

1. The occupation and annexation of Pomerania (1939-1940): The creation of the first structures of the Polish Underground State – Professor Bogdan Chrzanowski
2. Pre-war preparations and creation of the structure of the Polish Underground State in Pomerania (1939-1940) and its persecution by the German police – Professor Andrzej Gąsiorowski
3. Losses of the Polish population in Pomerania in 1939/1940 – Professor Sylwia Grochowina
4. The fate of the Jewish population in Pomerania after the outbreak of the war until January 1940 – Professor Grzegorz Berendt

Break

Panel 5

Moderator: Professor Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński

The attitudes of the population

1. The sources of Nazi violence in occupied Poland – Daniel Brewing, PhD
2. The attitudes of the German population in Pomerania and the events of 3-4 September 1939 in Bydgoszcz – Professor Tomasz Chinciński
3. The attitudes of the Polish population in Pomerania, 1939-1945 – Sylwia Bykowska, PhD
4. Gdynia during the first months of the German occupation, 1939-1940 – Professor Piotr Semków

Location: Frederic Chopin State Music School no. I in Wejherowo

Presentation of the documentary film „Piaśnica”, projection time – 50 min. (the film was produced by the Piaśnica Museum as part of the cycle „Mills of History” about the Pomeranian Massacre of 1939)

Coffee break

Panel  6

Moderator: Professor Bogdan Chrzanowski

Places of the Pomeranian Massacre of 1939

1. The mopping-up operation in Gdańsk – Danuta Drywa, PhD
2. Beginnings of the Stutthof Camp in the materials of the Stutthof trial – Marcin Owsiński, PhD
3. Piaśnica – Professor Monika Tomkiewicz
4. Selbstschutz camp in Karolew – Izabela Mazanowska, PhD
5. Szpęgawsk – Mateusz Kubicki

Coffee break

Presentation of the Piaśnica Museum

1. Piaśnica – in the light of new archival documents (The Piaśnica Museum) – Mateusz Ihnatowicz, PhD
2. Presentation of the Piaśnica Museum (Teresa Patsidis, Deputy Director of the Stutthof Museum for the Piaśnica Museum in Wejherowo)

Summary and closing of the conference