Jogaila received the name Władysław only at his second baptism in 1386. Why was he baptised a second time? The Kingdom of Poland in the Middle Ages bordered the Grand…

A Pole from a Jewish family, coming from a small Polish town, revolutionised the cosmetics industry. His Max Factor company still exists today, and the brand’s fame is known worldwide. …

The first winter ascent of the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest (8848 m), took place on 17 February 1980. This was done by two Poles, but all members of the…

In 1996, a silver 20-dollar coin was issued in Canada with the bust of Janusz Żurakowski. He was a Polish fighter pilot during the Second World War, and after its…

A brochure dedicated to Róża Melcer, who died in 1934, was published in 1936. Texts commemorating her were written by the wife of Majer Balaban, Moses Schorr and Emil Sommerstein.…

The term socialist realism was first used in the Soviet press in 1932, although the creative method behind the term was developed in the 1920s. It involved the complete subordination…

On the night of 9 to 10 February 1940, the first of four major deportations of Poles from the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic deep into the Soviet…

At the turn of January and February 1943, two railway transports arrived in Siedlce and the Siedlce poviat with a total of around 2,000 people from the villages of Zamość,…

Gajówka is a village that was about 3 km away from Stoczek Węgrowski. It no longer exists today, having become part of that town. Before the war, it was inhabited…

Janusz Korczak and Stefania Wilczyńska had two things in common – they were committed to taking care of as many Jewish orphans as possible in Warsaw, both in the interwar…