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…
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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…
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80 years ago, on 31 March 1943, the Germans arrested Stanisław Zdanowski, the mayor of Siedlce. The arrest, which took place on his 44th birthday, was prompted by the fact…
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The FSO “Warszawa” is one of the most famous Polish cars, which for a long time was a symbol of domestic automotive industry. Production of this popular vehicle started in…
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It is little known about one of the most active members of the Warsaw Home Army counter-intelligence who helped Jews in Warsaw. After the war she was sentenced to 10…
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Movement for the Defence of Human and Citizen’s Rights – an opposition organisation in communist Poland
On 25 March 1977, the “Appeal to the Polish society” was signed in Warsaw. It is considered to be the founding document of the Movement for the Defence of Human…
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“March associate professors” appeared in the People’s Republic of Poland after the anti-Semitic campaign of 1968. Who were they?
On 20 December 1968, the parliament of communist Poland adopted amendments to the law on higher education. It allowed the position and academic title of docent to be given to…
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On 26 March 1905, in Warsaw, occupied by Russia, members of the Combat Organisation of the Polish Socialist Party (OB PPS) carried out an armed action to eliminate the Head…
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German “death machine” in the occupied Polish territories functioned already in 1939. What was the Pomeranian crime?
For many years, the mass murders committed by the Germans against the Poles of Pomerania in 1939 were of no interest to historians. Meanwhile, for Poles, especially for the broad…
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‘Everyone in my house had some responsibilities’. How Jadwiga Grzymała-Dobiecka hid Jews in Warsaw
From May 1942, Jadwiga Grzymała-Dobiecka began hiding four Jews in her Warsaw flat at 42/76 Madalińskiego St. Two months later, in the second half of July of that year, the…