On 1 March 1951, in the Rakowiecka Prison in Warsaw, the communists murdered Colonel Łukasz Ciepliński a.k.a. “Plough”, the Head of the 4th Board of the Freedom and Independence Association. …

76 years ago, precisely on 22 February 1947, the Polish Legislative Sejm passed an amnesty law for soldiers and members of the anti-communist underground. In fact, it was a legal…

In 1335, the Polish king Casimir the Great founded the new town of Kazimierz. Interestingly, it was located literally next to the then capital of Poland, Kraków. Today, the former…

70 years ago, on 24 February 1953, General August Emil Fieldorf, a.k.a. “Nil”, soldier of the Polish Legions, participant in the struggle for Poland’s independence, professional military officer, founder and…

Władysław Natanson was fascinated by the sciences from an early age. Already at the age of sixteen, he presented a comprehensive paper “Chemical value and its variation” at a meeting…

The Palace was built between 1952 and 1955 and was called the “high-rise edifice”, but inhabitants of Warsaw still derisively refer to it as Pekin. The name comes from the…

Julian Ochorowicz, an outstanding Polish positivist, philosopher, physician, psychologist, writer and inventor, was born on February 23, 1850. The scope of his research interests is astounding in its breadth and…

A beautiful story in tragic times. Irena Zielińska, a young Polish woman, risked her life saving her future husband from the Holocaust.  Born in 1925, Irena Zielińska lived in Majdan…

In February and March 1846, violent peasant riots took place in Western Małopolska region. The attacks on the manors of the nobility and the massacres of the landed gentry families…

Perceived primarily from a Polish perspective as an event that resulted in the restoration of independence, the First World War has a completely different historical memory in Western European societies.…