title: Witnesses to the war
abstract: In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, by the end of February 2022 the Pilecki Institute had established the Raphael Lemkin Center for Documenting Russian Crimes in Ukraine (the Lemkin Center). The task of the unit is to collect individual, civilian witness accounts in the form of interviews and questionnaires to build an archive preserving evidence of crimes committed by Russian troops on Ukrainian territory. The center is developing a collection of testimonies (questionnaires, photogr