The hotel building itself survived the war without significant damage . Following the transfer of Breslau to Poland in 1945 , the hotel hosted the World Congress of Intellectuals during the Exhibition of the Recovered Territories in 1948 with guests such as Pablo Picasso , Irène Joliot-Curie , Ilya Ehrenburg and Mikhail Sholokhov
World Congress of Intellectuals
World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace
Monopol Hotel