At the Krakow Center for Russian Language and Literature, the project to create a memorial book has been completed. The Russkiy Mir Foundation’s campaign “Memory of the Heart” resonated well among the Krakow residents: students, schoolchildren, teachers, compatriots and veterans of the Great Patriotic War eagerly contributed. The authors of the most interesting works were recognized with certificates and awards, and their materials were compiled in a memorial book. The contributions included recollections, photographs, archive documents and dramatic stories which remind us of those tragic and heroic times.

Some of the most remarkable contributions were:

• “We remember – we take pride” by Agneshka Endreevskaya
• “Forgotten places, or perhaps not so forgotten” by Leshek Gorytski
• “How I became a partisan” by Yan Stakhov
• “The cemetery of Soviet Army soldiers in Rzeszów” by Magdalena Krupa
• “Historical recollections from the WWII era: Krakow” by Marian Plaskonka
• “Burial sites of Soviet soldiers who freed Olkusz in 1945” by Mateush Kamenka