The Soviet Union’s attack on Poland on 17 September 1939 was the implementation of the treaty of 23 August 1939 between the Soviets and the Third Reich, commonly referred to…
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Scheibler developed the textile industry in Lodz. Friendships, a rich wife, and his own abilities helped him
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsŁódź is still known in Poland for its textile industry. One of the most important people who developed the Lodz industry is a German, Karol Wilhelm Scheibler. How did he…
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Story of Karol Sakiel and Jan Kamrowski rescuing Jews in Warsaw
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsDuring the German occupation, sometimes Poles hid Jews who were good enough to walk the streets freely, at the request of their Jewish friends and acquaintances. In this way, they…
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They believed to survive the German bombardment thanks to a picture of Jesus painted by a Jew
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsDuring the German bombardment of Warsaw in 1944, Peretz Willenberg, a Jew, painted a picture of Jesus Christ on the stairs leading to the basement in an apartment building at…
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On 13 September 1939, German aircraft bombed the small town of Frampol. As a result of the raid, 80% of its buildings ceased to exist. The German Luftwaffe treated the…
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Battle of Vienna – a great triumph of the Polish arms in the 17th century
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsOn 12 September 1683, on the fields near Vienna, the combined Polish-Austrian-German forces commanded by Polish King Jan III Sobieski defeated the Turkish army led by Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa.…
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“Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen” – the German proscription list and its criminal consequences
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsThe German ‘Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen’ stands for a special investigation book for Poland, known as the proscription book, which included in alphabetical order the names of 61,000 Poles. It was a…
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Jan Wieczorkowski helped Jews in the Rembertów ghetto and in the former “Pocisk” Ammunition Works
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsRembertów is a town which, in the interwar period, was inhabited by 2,000 Jews who made up 10% of the town’s population. During the Second World War, the persecuted Jews,…
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What trick did Konstantin Ostrogski use to outwit the Moscow army? Battle of Orsha 1514
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsThe victory of the Polish-Lithuanian army over the Grand Duchy of Moscow at the Battle of Orsha is a triumph of wisdom and cunningness over rashness and, at the same…
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Early in the morning of 1 September 1939, the German battleship ‘Schleswig-Holstein’ began the artillery shelling of the Military Transit Depot, an exclave of Poland located on the Westerplatte peninsula…