On 15 November 1944, in the Lublin Castle Prison, communists murdered three Home Army soldiers. One of them was Stanisław Siwiec. The Lublin Castle Prison was one of the places…

It was a November day in 1942. In the small village of Koszyce, north-east of Krakow, Zbigniew Bolt, a soldier in the underground Polish Home Army, was walking past the…

Many Jews took part in the First World War battles on both sides of the conflicting powers, including the occupiers of the former Polish Republic [link: https://dignitynews.eu/pl/zydzi-polscy-w-armiach-zaborcow]. Thousands of them…

Every year in Poland, 11 November is celebrated as National Independence Day. It commemorates the regaining of independence by the Polish state in 1918 after 123 years of partitions, filled…

Born before 6 November 1755, Stanislaw Staszic became famous as a pioneer of cooperativism and organic work. He was a scholar and activist of great merit for Poland and a…

The defence of Praga on 4 November 1794, also known as the slaughter of Praga, was the last battle in the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was fought on…

Under the communist People’s Republic of Poland, generations of Poles had no awareness of the wartime and post-war activities of the Polish Government in Exile. Meanwhile, the scope of the…

Maria Curie-Skłodowska was the only woman in the world to receive two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. Why was the discovery she had made with her husband so important…

6 November 1939 the Germans arrested 183 Polish professors and other scientists in Krakow. Most of them were transported to the German camp at Sachsenchausen. Some of them did not…

145 years ago, on 4 November 1877, Tomasz Arciszewski was born in Sierzchowy_ Poland. He was a socialist, conspirator and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile, who devoted…