“Strange is this world, well it still seems there is so far so much evil”… On the 16 February 1939, Czesław Niemen, artist and composer, one of the most prominent…

Józef Uznański, commonly known by his nickname “Ujek”, was born in March 1924 in Zakopane, where he also ended his life in 2012. He was an outstanding person in the…

Raising the health level of Jews in Poland was one of the most frequent demands raised by the Jewish elite from the beginning of the Second Polish Republic. One of…

The Operation Arsenal is one of the most famous clashes of the Polish underground. It involved the scouts of the Grey Ranks Assault Group, an underground organisation of the Polish…

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. It is worth introducing the difficult beginnings of this university, which was established as the fifth academic centre in…

It’s hard to find a Pole who hasn’t heard the name of Adam Słodowy at least once, or the name of his programme “Do It Yourself” or hasn’t seen a…

On 18 March 1596, by decision of Sigismund III Vasa, Warsaw became the new administrative centre of Poland, replacing Krakow. This historic change, although not formally approved by a legal…

Exactly 80 years ago, on 8 March 1944, the Germans performed the annihilation of the village of Jamy. As a result, they murdered 152 people, including women and children. All…

Who was one of the most outstanding Polish painters of the second half of the 19th century and the only representative of his generation to associate the concept of modernity…

It is difficult to name another scholar in the Second Republic with such a wide range of interests and research achievements, who was at the same time an active politician…