Until recently, it was thought that the birthplace of the famous American director of Jewish origin, Fred Zinnemann (1907-1997), was Austria. Meanwhile, in 2021, a Rzeszów resident Anna Bochenek published…

Friedrich Pabst was a German architect and engineer who had been acting as the chief architect of occupied Warsaw since the autumn of 1939. In addition to this, in 1942…

American Marien C. Cooper was a pilot who fought for Poland during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920. He was awarded the Virtuti Militari Cross for his accomplishments. A dozen years…

The Ringelblum Archive is a collection of extremely valuable source material relating primarily to the situation of Jews in 1939-1943 in German-occupied Poland. Its creation was initiated by Emanuel Ringelblum…

At present, historians are aware of around 200 places where Roma, Gypsies and Sinti were executed by the Germans on German-occupied Polish lands during the Second World War. In reality,…

A few days after the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising (5 August 1944), soldiers of the scout battalion “Zośka” of the Home Army captured “Gesiowka” – a fortified concentration camp-prison…

On 5-7 August 1944, the Germans murdered between 40,000 and 65,000 people in Wola (the western district of Warsaw). The Massacre of Wola is considered one of the largest atrocities…

During the war, the walkie-talkie helped soldiers to communicate with each other thanks to Henryk Magnus and his team – they invented the device during the Second World War. The…

The only Pole in space, Mirosław Hermaszewski, directed his eyes toward flying objects from a young age. He was born during World War II and lived in Volhynia, where Poles…

“And so, they’ve killed our Ferdinand” said a charwoman to Josef Švejk, summarising the latest news. “You’ll come out badly with this Ferdinand”, warned in a soft voice the police…