Szydłowiec, a town in the southern part of the Mazovian Voivodeship, has over the centuries become a place dominated by the Jewish population. The actions of the Germans during World…
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Mieczysław Bekker, a Polish military engineer, pioneer of the construction of lunar vehicles
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsBorn in the Lublin region, engineer Mieczysław Bekker researched the problem of moving vehicles in difficult terrain in the interwar period. When the Second World War broke out, having taken…
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Tzimmes – a taste of traditional Jewish cuisine which has become a synonym for rarity in the Polish language
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsWhat is Tzimmes? It is a popular stewed or roasted dish of Jewish cuisine, consisting of carrots, plums, apples, among others. Served at festive meals, it has a distinctive sweet…
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Stanisław Średnicki and his wife Irena rescued many Jews from the Holocaust. They helped the writer Kazimierz Brandys survive the German occupation
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsThe address Warsaw, 52 app. 8 Narbutta Street – that is where the Średnicki family lived during the German occupation. They decided to hide Jews in their flat. Stanisław Średnicki…
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83 years ago, on September 19, 1940, Captain Witold Pilecki gave himself up for capture in Warsaw during a large-scale street roundup. He was then sent to the Auschwitz concentration…
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The Volhynian genocide was a mass murder carried out by Ukrainian nationalists and so-called “hatchet men”. Between 1943 and 1945, these groups ruthlessly murdered more than 100,000 Poles living in…
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On Inhuman Earth. The fate of Rabbi Yechiel Yehoshua Rabinovich in Siberian exile during the Second World War
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsThe outbreak of World War II led to the devastation of many towns, which were heavily bombed by the German air force. This was also the fate of Siedlce, a…
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Modern idea of a nation without a state – Bolesław Prus (1847 – 1912)
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsBolesław Prus (Aleksander Głowacki) became one of the most popular and recognisable Polish novelists and short story writers. However, the author of “The Doll” was also an excellent columnist, publicist…
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Borderlands of the Polish Borderlands. How Polishness developed in Livonia
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsAfter the fall of the German Order, the lands of Livonia (today’s Latvia and Estonia) became part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1561), then were mostly seized by Sweden and then…
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Polish Farmers against the communists in the People’s Republic of Poland
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsIn 1978, several independent peasant organisations emerged in Poland’s rural communities, which did not agree with the communist policy towards farmers and their families, including the creation of state and…