It may be surprising that the invention of the kerosene lamp has to do with the pharmaceutical industry. However, it was a Polish pharmacist, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, who made this amazing…

On the night of 23-24 August 1939, a non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, commonly known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, was signed in Moscow. The document was accompanied…

On 22 August 1863, Jozef Lajb Ab, a well-known Lodz teacher and educational activist, was born in Lodz to the family of Leon (Lewin) and Szprynca née Codik. One of…

Jozef Sklodowski, an eminent educationalist and grandfather of the two-time Polish Nobel Prize winner, died 140 years ago. In the difficult times of the Russian occupation of Poland, he managed…

In the face of Bolshevik Russian aggression, threatening Poland’s independence regained in 1918, Polish artists became widely participated in promoting the fight against the enemy to the public. They created…

Researchers of the history of Polish-Jewish relations in Polish lands have no doubt that Poles were very rarely present in the Jewish press of the Second Republic. Their profiles and…

In the Battle of Zadworze on 17 August 1920, more than 300 Polish soldiers resisted fiercely for many hours against the overwhelming Bolshevik army. The vast majority of them died.…

The Nasierowski family looked for various ways to help the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. This Polish family did not give in, despite the blackmail. At 9 Kaliska Street in…

In 1920 the Poles defeated the Bolsheviks in the Battle of Warsaw. They not only defended their independence, but also stopped the communists’ march deep into Europe.  What was the…

On 14 August 1941, in the bunker of block 11, known as the death block of the German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Polish Franciscan Father Maximilian Maria Kolbe was murdered…