Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (IPN)

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Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (IPN, Institute of National Remembrance) is a Polish state institution created in 1998 to research and document the communist period in Poland; it runs the country's largest archive of the repressive apparatus and employs around two hundred historians. Alongside its research and publishing work it runs a public-education programme, and since 2009 that programme has produced historical and educational board games, the best known being Kolejka (a Cold War queue simulation). Around 25 board games are listed on the education site, covering the Warsaw Uprising, the Underg…