Today is the 109th anniversary of the birth of Zygmunt Jan Rumel, poet and soldier in the Peasant Battalions, who was brutally murdered by Ukrainian nationalists in Volhynia. Zygmunt Rumel…

The Pawlaks lived in Olszanka (Krzczonów municipality) in the Lublin district. They were farmers. Despite fear and anxiety for their lives, they hid a Jewish family of 4 people. Bronisława…

Adam Czerniakow was inextricably linked to the Warsaw Ghetto. His tragic suicide in anticipation of the Holocaust was an expression of protest against the criminal policy of the German occupiers…

“Strange is this world, well it still seems there is so far so much evil”… On the 16 February 1939, Czesław Niemen, artist and composer, one of the most prominent…

“I suffer a terrible misery, but I will not betray, and I prefer to die”. Those words were scratched in his prison cell before his death by Lieutenant Stanisław Kaszubski,…

The Podlodowski family, of Janina coat of arms, is a well-known family of the Sandomierz region. The greatest number of references to it are found in the 15th and 16th…

Kazimierz Wierzyński was one of the most outstanding Polish poets of the 20th century, a prose writer and essayist. He was born into the family of the son of a…

It was established in the 1930s in Warsaw on Grójecka Street. This large market soon became popular with the residents of Ochota. It mainly supplied fruit and vegetables, but older…

He came from a family with Austrian-Jewish roots. Wilhelm Orlik – Rückeman commanded a tank regiment during the Polish-Bolshevik war, and just before the outbreak of World War II he…

Feliks Koneczny was born on 1 November 1862 in Krakow to a Czech family of Moravian origin. Interestingly, the future historian and creator of the original concept of civilisation did…