The fate of Jewish women who stayed on the Aryan side while acting in the Jewish underground is not a subject often discussed. We do not hear about them because…

Published in 1946, the study “The Hunger Disease” is considered a unique scientific work due to the fact that it was written under extremely difficult conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto.…

On 7 October 1620, a few kilometres from the Polish border, Hetman Stanislaw Żółkiewski fell in battle against the Tatars. He was 73 years old at the time of his…

The campaign to protect marmots and mountain chamois in the Tatra Mountains was started by two Poles: Maksymilian Nowicki and Father Eugeniusz Janota. Their lobbying led to the passing of…

The “Little Insurgent” monument, which is located in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is only 150 cm tall, but it arouses huge emotions. Whom does it commemorate? It depicts a…

In the late afternoon of 5 October 1939, near Kock, less than fifty kilometres north of Lublin, General Franciszek Kleeberg made the decision to surrender his troops. He was one…

On 1 October 1943, in the early hours of the morning, a group of several Poles gathered in a Warsaw flat. What was their objective? They wanted to execute the…

Karol Tendera survived hell in the German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The German Nazis conducted experiments on him. Years later, he struggled against the false term “Polish death camps”. He even…

He became world-famous only in the United States. However, Poland, in which he was born and raised persisted in his novels and in his heart.  A Jewish Nobel laureate who…

The astronomical discoveries of Nicolaus Copernicus represent Poland’s greatest contribution to modern world science. Other Polish scientists, whose achievements are now forgotten, also gained attention in the world at the…