In the first days of November 1943, the Germans murdered in mass executions more than 42,000 Jews held in KL Lublin and other labour camps in the Lublin District of…
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This monument is a place where Poles honour all those who have fallen in battle for their sovereign and independent state
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsThe Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw is one of the most important sites of Polish memory. What is the genesis of this place? The first Tomb of the…
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New Zealand accepted Polish orphans who lost everything during World War II
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsNew Zealanders opened their hearts and took in more than 700 Polish children who lost their parents during World War II. How did it happen that they arrived on the…
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The Baran Wilderness near Kąkolewnica is one of several places in the Lublin region that has become a permanent record of brutal crimes committed by the communist apparatus of terror.…
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Border Protection Corps – the elite military formation of the Second Republic of Poland
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsIn 1924, as a result of Soviet sabotage attacks, the authorities of the Second Polish Republic decided to create a special military formation to protect the borders – the Border…
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Do you know that before the Second World War there were villages in Poland inhabited only by Jews?
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsIn the interwar period, the Second Polish Republic was inhabited by 2.7-3.1 million Jews – about 10 % of Poland’s total population. In some localities it happened that they made…
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During the German occupation, almost every major Polish city had a building in which the secret state police had their headquarters. From afar, they aroused terror and were often colloquially…
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Ignacy Daszyński, socialist and one of the fathers of Polish independence, was born 156 years ago
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsIgnacy Daszyński was born on 26 October 1866 in Zbaraż in Volhynia (now Ukraine) into a large and patriotic family of a Polish official. He lost his father in childhood,…
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The Polish commander, Stanislaw Żółkiewski, took the Russian Tsar, Vasily Shuisky, captive after entering Moscow. He brought him to Warsaw, where the Tsar bowed before the Polish King Sigismund III.…
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How were surnames given to the Jewish population in the Prussian and Austrian partitions?
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsUntil the end of the 18th century, a significant part of the Jewish population living in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did not have surnames, and the nicknames or…