Stanislaw Leszczynski is known in Poland mainly for the fact that his reign was twice interrupted. He was the longest-lived of Poland’s rulers (88 years) at a time when the…

After the conquest of East Prussia, the Order of the Hospital of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the German House in Jerusalem, commonly known as the Teutonic Order, brought to…

Already in the early years of the 20th century, in exile, the future President of the Second Republic of Poland made many discoveries in chemistry and electricity. He became the…

Today marks the 79th anniversary of the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. After sixty-three days of heroic, uneven fighting against the overwhelming German forces, the Home Army Headquarters decided to…

Grey Ranks was the code name used by the Polish Scouting Association (ZHP) during World War II. They became a symbol of youth resistance and patriotism. The organisation, which had…

When Soviet troops, approached Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, a German Nazi concentration camp which was also a centre for the extermination of Jews, the Germans ordered its evacuation. In January 1945,…

According to official data, the Polish state takes care of 98 cemeteries and war cemetery quarters located in 53 countries. They are not only an element of Poland’s national heritage,…

Today marks the eighty-fourth anniversary of the dissolution of the Volunteer Workers’ Brigade for the Defence of Warsaw, which from the first days of September 1939 resisted German soldiers, defending…

Today is the 115th anniversary of the armed attack by the Fighting Organisation of the Polish Socialist Party on a Russian postal train, which involved four later Prime Ministers of…

Jan Karol Chodkiewicz was an extraordinary strategist. He became famous for the Battle of Kircholm, however, this was not the only time he defeated a numerically superior Swedish army. Learn…