Today is the 122nd anniversary of the birth of Professor Tadeusz Manteuffel, an outstanding Polish historian-medievalist, soldier of the Home Army and founder of the Institute of History of the…

The beginning of the 19th century brought interest in matters of production technology. Those issues were addressed by the first Polish specialist periodical, which had been published in Warsaw since…

Władysław Grabski was a multifaceted man: a politician of national democracy, economist, historian, as well as Minister of the Treasury and Prime Minister during the Second Polish Republic. He is…

On the evening of 1 March 1951, in a prison on Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw, the communists carried out death sentences on seven members of the Fourth Executive Board of…

Roman Abraham verbrachte den größten Teil seines Lebens in der polnischen Armee. Er nahm an der Verteidigung von Lemberg, am Polnisch-Bolschewistischen Krieg und am Verteidigungskrieg 1939 teil. Er unterstützte auch…

On 28 February 1944, the Polish village of Huta Pieniacka was completely destroyed and most of its inhabitants were murdered. The perpetrators of this crime were Ukrainian policemen serving in…

In 1940, a conspiratorial organisation of sailors was established in Warsaw and Gdynia to conduct anti-German naval intelligence. In 1941, this group found its way to the Commander-in-Chief of the…

“The First Polish Armoured Division/ On the fields of France went into bloody battle.” This is how a song written by Stanisław Kowalski begins, glorifying the battles of the Polish…

The world of the residences of the Polish Borderland elite was irretrievably lost due to the cataclysms of the 20th century. They belonged first to the rulers, the nobility and…

After the Home Army (AK), the Peasant Battalions (BCh) were the largest underground armed organisation in Poland during the Second World War. The originator of the first military formation of…