On 26 January 1699, a peace treaty was signed in Karlovice between, among others, Poland and Turkey. It put a definitive end to the period of wars between the two…

Anna Pustowójtówna was the daughter of a Polish noblewoman and a Russian general. In 1861 she organised an anti-Russian demonstration in Lublin, and two years later she took part in…

He was one of the most eminent experts on the history of Jews under the Partitions of Poland. Although Artur Eisenbach’s pioneering monographs were written in communist Poland. They remained…

Today is the 101st birthday anniversary of Professor Krzysztof Dunin-Wąsowicz, a soldier of the Home Army, a prisoner of the German concentration camp Stutthof, an outstanding historian and one of…

In November 1918, Lwów became the scene of a Polish-Ukrainian conflict and the first of several wars for the borders of the reborn Polish state. Approximately 6,000 Polish volunteers, including…

There are many opinions on who and what contributed most to Poland’s independence. Certainly, the leaders of the parties striving for the rebirth of the Polish state had a significant…

Exactly 78 years ago, on 19 January 1945, Home Army Commander-in-Chief Brigadier General Leopold Okulicki a.k.a. “Niedźwiadek” took the decision to disband the underground army. In this way, he wanted…

Besides Polish women and old people, also infants and children were the victims of the Ukrainian nationalists in Volhynia. Accounts, memoirs, and documentation show that when confronted with mass murders,…

The reign of the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski, was, on the one hand, a period of undertaking political reforms with the Constitution of 3 May 1791, as…

Occupied by the Red Army and politically subordinated to the Soviets, the Polish Republic could not be reborn as an independent state within the pre-1939 borders. Between the Bug and…