In the years 1941-1945, there was a German penal investigation camp in Fort III. It is called the largest torture chamber in northern Mazovia, where Gestapo officers committed extreme cruelty.…

In 1924, the State Powder and Aggregate Factory started the production in Zagożdżon near Radom. The factory was one of the largest defense industry plants in interwar Poland. It was…

In November 1926, in the Łazienki Park in Warsaw, a monument to the outstanding Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin officially unveiled. Less than 15 years later, it was destroyed…

Benedykt Dybowski (1833-1930) is one of the fathers of Polish limnology (Greek: limno – freshwater lake), science in the field of hydrology that studies the waters of inland reservoirs. In 1864, the…

After the German and Soviet invasion of Poland and the occupation of its territory, both the authorities of the Third Reich and the Soviet Union pursued a policy aimed at…

An ordinary cleaning worker in Lwow became a hero. Leopold Socha turned his workplace and sewers into a room where he helped Jews. During the occupation of Poland by the…

When Poland regained independence, the Catholic clergy thought of organizing a national pilgrimage to the Holy Land. However, it was only possible in 1934 when 112 people visited Jerusalem from…

On May 25, 1948, in the prison at ul. Rakowiecka, the communists murdered Captain Witold Pilecki, a hero who “created a conspiracy in hell.” Witold Pilecki was born on May…

On May 20, 1944, near Sarnak on the Bug River, soldiers of the Home Army (AK) found an unexploded German V-2 rocket. Two months later, its key elements reached London.…

On May 23, 1883, in the St. Casimir’s asylum in Paris, a Polish poet- Cyprian Kamil Norwid died. Impoverished and alone, noticed but misunderstood by his contemporaries, he was ahead…