During the Second World War, the scouts involved in intelligence and information activities (WISS for short) worked closely with Branch II of the Home Army Headquarters. The first co-ordinator and…

In November 1944, almost 5,000 soldiers of the Polish underground were deported from the Polish territories occupied by the Soviet army deep into the Soviet Union in four train transports.…

Historians and art historians equally agree that it would be difficult today to name a country other than Poland that lost the lion’s share of its cultural heritage because of…

On 19 November 1885, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, one of the most outstanding generals of the Polish Army, was born in Warsaw. He did not lose any battle in which he commanded…

The symbol of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which broke out in 1943. However, Polish Jews also resisted by systematically recording the crimes committed by…

During the German occupation of Poland, the Leszczyński family from the small village of Bocianka, near Siemiatycze, became quiet heroes. Risking their own lives, they provided shelter for thirteen Jews.…

Those four brothers Kusewicki were from the town of Smorgonia. They turned out to be not only outstanding cantors, but also lyrical tenors, performing operatic repertoire. Moshe, Jacob, Simcha and…

He defied the communist authorities by serving US intelligence to protect Poland from nuclear annihilation. Ryszard Kuklinski was born on 13 June 1930 in Warsaw. His father was active in…

Today is the 105th anniversary of the restoration of Poland’s independence, heralded by the Provisional People’s Government of the Polish Republic, which was formed at the beginning of November 1918…

On Thursday, 9 November 1939, the Germans began arresting representatives of Lublin’s intelligentsia in the occupied Lublin region including professors of the Catholic University of Lublin, presidents of courts, priests…