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…

“I suffer a terrible misery, but I will not betray, and I prefer to die”. Those words were scratched in his prison cell before his death by Lieutenant Stanisław Kaszubski,…

The Podlodowski family, of Janina coat of arms, is a well-known family of the Sandomierz region. The greatest number of references to it are found in the 15th and 16th…

Kazimierz Wierzyński was one of the most outstanding Polish poets of the 20th century, a prose writer and essayist. He was born into the family of the son of a…

It was established in the 1930s in Warsaw on Grójecka Street. This large market soon became popular with the residents of Ochota. It mainly supplied fruit and vegetables, but older…

He came from a family with Austrian-Jewish roots. Wilhelm Orlik – Rückeman commanded a tank regiment during the Polish-Bolshevik war, and just before the outbreak of World War II he…

Feliks Koneczny was born on 1 November 1862 in Krakow to a Czech family of Moravian origin. Interestingly, the future historian and creator of the original concept of civilisation did…

During the interwar period, Poland boasted the League of Air and Anti-Gas Defence (LOPP), a paramilitary organisation that was formed on 10 February 1928 as a result of the merger…