When the elite of the Polish state in 1936 joined a collection for the National Defence Fund, which aimed to obtain extra funds for the rearmament of the military, Leopold…

Born in 1925 in the small Polish town of Żarki near Częstochowa, Eli Zborowski was not only a significant person in the Jewish community, but also a symbol of the…

During the September 1939 campaign, it was very common for German Luftwaffe aircraft to target objects of no military importance. Bombs were dropped on Polish towns and villages, and it…

In all the most important Polish publications devoted to the issue of Jewish participation in combat during the defensive war of 1939, historians stress that the Jewish soldiers fought unexpectedly…

Early in the morning of 1 September 1939, the German battleship ‘Schleswig-Holstein’ began the artillery shelling of the Military Transit Depot, an exclave of Poland located on the Westerplatte peninsula…

The trend for sport and tourism among Jews living in the Polish lands began in the early 20th century. Undoubtedly, sports exhibitions held before World War I in Warsaw and…

The holiday season coming to an end is the time to spin stories about hidden jewels and treasure hunts in old castles. One of the strongholds in which valuable artifacts…

From his birth in Kraków on 2 September 1912 to his death in Melbourne (Australia) in 2009, the life of Gwidon Borucki was an epic full of passion, talent, and…

During the military operations on Poland’s territory in September 1939. Germans committed several crimes, whose victims were prisoners of war and defenceless civilians. Their perpetrators turned out to be not…

The German aggression against Poland on 1 September 1939 marked the beginning of the Second World War, the bloodiest armed conflict in the history of mankind. Hostilities ended in Europe…