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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

On 24 March 1921, Father Franciszek Blachnicki was born. He was the founder of the Oasis movement, which in communist Poland, to the displeasure of the authorities, formed around 2…

The naval battle of Salis (23/24 March 1609) was an important milestone in the 1600-1611 Polish-Swedish war, an example of the use of the element of surprise and innovation by…