The history of the Oświęcim Jewish community dates back to the first half of the 16th century. For over 400 years, Jewish life in Oświęcim developed rapidly.  During the German…

While stakes with heretics were burning in Western Europe and religious conflicts were raging, peace reigned in Poland and Lithuania. The nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth decided that religious tolerance…

At the outbreak of the January Uprising (22 January 1863), the territories of the Kingdom of Poland, which was in the Russian partition, began to be subject to two administrations.…

On 24 January 1588, 435 years ago, at Byczyna, the Polish army led by Hetman Jan Zamoyski crushed the army of the Austrian Archduke Maximilian Habsburg. The victory decided the…

According to the latest partial research, the Germans repressed about a thousand people in the occupied Poland for helping Jews. Many of them were murdered, others were imprisoned, sent to…

When the Second World War broke out in 1939, he was 16 years old. It was then that he abandoned his youthful dreams and stood up to fight the enemy.…

He made his mark in Polish history mainly through his patriotic activities in the Philomath Society and his friendship with the national bard Adam Mickiewicz. Meanwhile, a former participant in…

On 19 January 1947, elections to the Legislative Sejm took place in Poland. Officially, the bloc of democratic parties led by the communist Polish Workers’ Party (PPR) received more than…

80 years ago, on 18 January 1943, soldiers of the Home Army (AK), in a perfectly prepared and daring action, broke up the German prison in Pinsk, freeing about 40…

In January 1945, the Germans ordered the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Such actions were deportations, which were called death marches after the end of the Second World War.…