In the inter-war period, Poland was one of the few countries with a rapidly developing aerospace industry. It is interesting to note that among the manufactured aircraft, domestic designs soon…

Jewish soldiers serving in the Polish Army took an active part in the defensive war of 1939, protecting Poland against the German and Soviet invaders. Their graves can be found,…

Polonezköy (Turkish for “Polish village”) is a settlement near Istanbul, also known as Adampol. It was founded by Polish emigrants in the 19th century. The office of mayor there is…

In the spring of 1939, Polish specialists, and military officers in Andrychów, near Wadowice, trained Jewish revisionists, drawn from the youth organisation, Betar, who later became the command cadre and…

On 17 March 1921, the Polish Sejm adopted a constitution which introduced an egalitarian system of a democratic republic, abolishing all state privileges and introducing the principle of complete equality…

The famous inter-war lawyer Maurycy Axer, famous for the Rita Gorgonowa case, shaped his views on the assimilation of Jews under the influence of Herman Lieberman, who was a strong…

The founder of the largest fortune in the Kingdom of Poland (Russian partition) gained his position thanks to huge railway investments, which significantly accelerated the economic development of Poland’s territories.…

Portugal (along with Spain, Andorra, the Vatican, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Ireland, San Marino, Sweden, and Switzerland) was one of the few European countries that managed to remain independent throughout the Second…

He was characterised by stubbornness and eccentricity. His difficult character was balanced by his genius and extraordinary innovation. Tadeusz Tanski constructed the first cars for Poland and fought in the…

The Kościuszko Uprising is generally considered to have started with Tadeusz Kościuszko’s oath sworn in the Market Square in Kraków on 24 March 1794. However, its outbreak was precipitated primarily…