The first victims of mass murder with Zyklon B at the German concentration camp at Auschwitz were Soviet prisoners of war and Poles. People suffocated and their internal organs bled.…
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Neighbour or enemy? The German minority towards Poland and Poles at the outbreak of the Second World War
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsAccording to estimates derived from the 1921 and 1931 censuses, the Second Polish Republic was inhabited by between 2.3% and 3.8% of Germans. The largest concentrations of the German population…
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Battle of Budziszyn 1015 was a triumph of Boleslaus the Brave, ruler of Poland, over the Germans
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsThe period of Boleslaus the Brave’s rule (992-1025) in Poland was a time of wars and expansion of the country’s territory. This was experienced by the Germans, who suffered a…
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The bombing of Wieluń on the 1st of September 1939. German war crime against Polish civilians
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsWieluń, a Polish border town, was bombed three times by the German Luftwaffe on the 1st of September 1939. At least 70 % of the town’s buildings disappeared, despite the…
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During the Polish-Bolshevik war, Teresa Grodzinska saved many wounded Polish soldiers by carrying them on her own back, under machine-gun fire, across the bridge on the Huczwa River. Taken prisoner…
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31 August marks the 102nd anniversary of the Battle of Komarów, the largest cavalry battle of the 20th century, in which Polish cavalry crushed Semyon Budyonny’s 1st Horse Army on…
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Tadeusz Czacki – the creator of the legendary Volhynian Athens
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsOn 28 August 1765, Tadeusz Czacki, a Polish pedagogue, historian, geographer, bibliophile and founder of the Krzemieniec Lyceum, was born in Poryck in Volhynia. In his youth, he stayed in…
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Postulates on the gate of the Gdansk Shipyard that broke the “Iron Curtain”
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsOn 31 August 1980, in the Health and Safety Hall of the Gdańsk Shipyard, representatives of the Polish communist authorities signed an agreement with the striking workers. One of the…
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Maximilian Heilpern and his contribution to Jewish vocational education
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsMaximilian Heilpern was born in 1856 into a family of Jewish merchants who repeatedly gave evidence of Polish patriotism. His elder brothers took part in the January Uprising against Tsarist…
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Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski – creator of the success of the pre-war Polish economy
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsEugeniusz Kwiatkowski was born on 30th December 1888 in Kraków. He studied chemistry in Lwów (today’s Lviv) and Munich. During World War I, he was a soldier of the Polish…