Thanks to Marek Grechuta’s unforgettable music arrangement, the bass-booming ‘bittern bumblebee” became known to most of Poles, especially amongst the older generation. The song was included in an album released…

After Hitler’s rise to power in the Third Reich in 1933, Polish Jews launched a social movement spontaneously to help Jewish refugees expelled from Germany. There, they were persecuted physically,…

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the products of Jewish craftsmen formed a significant part of the production of everyday items in central and eastern Poland. According to available…

19 October, every year since 2018, is celebrated in Poland as the National Day of Remembrance of the Unbroken Clergy. It was on 19 October 1984 that officers of the…

On 15 October 1941, in occupied Polish territory, the Germans introduced a decree that threatened the death penalty for Jews residing outside the ghettos, as well as for Poles providing…

In the interwar period he was an award-winning journalist. He received the Silver Cross of Merit from the Poland’s Government. Bencjon worked for the Warsaw daily newspaper Der Moment. In…

Before Hitler and his armies attacked Polish territory in 1939 and the September campaign began, German implementation of its policy towards Poland took place on Polish soil, providing pretexts for…

On 14 October 1773, the Polish Sejm established the Commission of National Education. It was the first state body in the world to deal comprehensively with the issue of education…

Tadeusz Kościuszko, an outstanding soldier and engineer, died 205 years ago. In response to the news of his death, Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Jews and Muslims held mourning services in Poland.…

During the Crusades in the 12th century, the Teutonic Order, also known as the German Order, was established in Jerusalem. Due to the unsustainability of their conquests in Palestine, the…