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…

On 5 February 1982, a group of Świdnik residents decided to go out for an evening walk to express their disapproval of the lies the communist authorities were spreading on…

The 19th century was a period of industrialisation of the Polish territories and modernising changes that took place in Polish society. Those processes had an impact on the Jewish minority.…

Its origins are legendary. For years, it was used during coronations of Polish kings. In 1795, Szczerbiec was looted by the Prussians. It was then exhibited in Paris at a…

Michał Sędziwój (1566-1636), known as Sendivogius Polonus, became famous in Europe for his extraordinary alchemical knowledge. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries he was searching for the…

Today is the 88th anniversary of the death of Bolesław Limanowski, the Polish historian and sociologist. Bolesław Limanowski, Polish historian and sociologist, known as the nestor of Polish socialism, as…

Aleksander Sochaczewski (1843-1923) is today a forgotten painter. The value of his paintings is determined primarily by the subject matter he undertook. At least 118 of his works have survived…

Szolc-Rogoziński’s fascination with the little-known countries of Central Africa had its origins when, in his young years, he sailed in a Russian military flotilla from Kronstadt to Vladivostok in 1880,…

Józef Mackiewicz, a prominent Polish writer, opponent of totalitarianism and supporter of the Polish-Lithuanian agreement, died on 31 January 1985. His self-characterisation is famous: “Profession: writer. Nationality: anti-communist. Beliefs: counter-revolutionary.…