Born into a Jewish family with literary traditions, Roman Brandstaetter, writer, poet, playwright and translator of the Bible, died 35 years ago. After graduating from secondary school in Tarnów, he…

On 27 September 1939, the Service for Poland’s Victory (Służba Zwycięstwu Polski), an organisation that gave rise to the Polish Underground State, was established in Warsaw besieged by the Germans.…

Until 1918, Maximilian Cederbaum bore the surname Zetterbaum. He was born in 1871 in Kolomyia into the family of a poor tailor. We know little about his early life, but…

80 years ago, on 27 September 1942, the Provisional Committee to Aid Jews was created in the German-occupied Polish territories. This organisation was launched on the initiative of the writer…

“Skarga is a tribune, a prophet, but above all he is a Pole”, said the poet Adam Mickiewicz in his Parisian lectures at the College de France after the fall…

Among the school buildings where after the summer break school life has resumed, there are still many so-called millennium schools. This is a colloquial name for schools – monuments to…

In the interwar period, many ladies carried out extensive work to fight for women’s rights. Although emancipation, women’s and feminist movements flourished, Polish women put the independence of their country…

Kuczki (Sukkot) is, from today’s point of view, an architectural peculiarity that we still see today in some Polish cities. It is a specific trace of history, a legacy left…

Harvest festivals after the Second World War became a centrally organised celebration. The communist authorities wanted to use them to demonstrate their supposed political and economic successes.  Harvest festivals also…

The Kulmhof extermination camp, located on the Ner River, in Polish “Chełmno nad Nerem”, began operating in autumn 1941 in the Warthegau (Wartheland).  The camp was the site of the…