80 years ago, on 4 January 1943 in Athens, the Germans executed Jerzy Ivanov-Szajnowicz. Before 1939, he was an outstanding athlete. During the Second World War, he was one of…

Scout, soldier, publicist, socialist. On 5th January 1901, Adam Ciołkosz, one of the leaders of the Polish Socialist Party and an intransigent anti-communist, was born in Krakow. He grew up…

Although Sylwester Braun was not a professional photographer, he cared about the technical details of his photographs. He was able to hide photographs well from the Germans. It was Braun…

Simon Wiesenthal was an internationally renowned tracker of German war criminals. He was born on 31 December 1908 in Buczacz, a Polish town with a large Jewish community (now in…

In 1943, on the orders of Hans Frank, a German publishing house published a car guidebook about the quasi-state that was the General Government. The occupied Polish lands within GG…

The first records of Jewish settlement in Wieluń date back to the 16th century, but during the First Polish Republic the town was granted a privilege under which Jews were…

In November 1918, the First World War was coming to an end, with the German army retreating in France and Belgium, revolution breaking out in Germany, and the abdication of…

Daniel Neufeld was born in the town of Praszka near Wieluń. In his hometown, he attended a Jewish religious school, and was then educated at a grammar school run by…

Tadeusz Romer, as a Polish diplomat, is credited with great merit for helping Polish citizens in exile. His efforts saved over 2,000 Polish Jews who had taken refuge in the…

On Saturday, 23 December 1939, in the Jewish cemetery on Sienna Street in Lublin, the Germans murdered 10 representatives of the Polish intelligentsia, earlier imprisoned in the Castle Prison in…