80 years ago, on 27 September 1942, the Provisional Committee to Aid Jews was created in the German-occupied Polish territories. This organisation was launched on the initiative of the writer…

“Skarga is a tribune, a prophet, but above all he is a Pole”, said the poet Adam Mickiewicz in his Parisian lectures at the College de France after the fall…

Among the school buildings where after the summer break school life has resumed, there are still many so-called millennium schools. This is a colloquial name for schools – monuments to…

In the interwar period, many ladies carried out extensive work to fight for women’s rights. Although emancipation, women’s and feminist movements flourished, Polish women put the independence of their country…

Kuczki (Sukkot) is, from today’s point of view, an architectural peculiarity that we still see today in some Polish cities. It is a specific trace of history, a legacy left…

Harvest festivals after the Second World War became a centrally organised celebration. The communist authorities wanted to use them to demonstrate their supposed political and economic successes.  Harvest festivals also…

The Kulmhof extermination camp, located on the Ner River, in Polish “Chełmno nad Nerem”, began operating in autumn 1941 in the Warthegau (Wartheland).  The camp was the site of the…

The Soviet Union’s attack on Poland on 17 September 1939 was the implementation of the treaty of 23 August 1939 between the Soviets and the Third Reich, commonly referred to…

Łódź is still known in Poland for its textile industry. One of the most important people who developed the Lodz industry is a German, Karol Wilhelm Scheibler. How did he…

During the German occupation, sometimes Poles hid Jews who were good enough to walk the streets freely, at the request of their Jewish friends and acquaintances. In this way, they…