Edith Stein was born to a pious Jewish family but as a teenager, she decided to be an atheist. Her new faith was discovered thanks to phenomenology philosophers and unpleasant…

Four years ago, Richard Pipes, a historian of Russia and a Sovietologist of Polish origin, a critic of communism, who predicted the collapse of the “evil empire”, died. In the…

Propaganda and diversion are important elements in an armed conflict. Poles did not forget about it during World War II. The conspirators from Operation “N” (the first letter of the…

Eliza Orzeszkowa, the author of the novel included in school readings, is probably associated with long and detailed descriptions of the Neman river’s nature but in her time Orzeszkowa was…

Twice a day, the German occupier broadcast propaganda messages in Polish through street megaphones. The first devices of this type appeared in Warsaw in the hot summer of 1940. Varsovians…

The Jews actively and bravely joined the defence of Lwów (today’s Lviv) during the siege of 1648 and 1655. They did not want to allow either the Cossacks or the…

Wojtek was a Syrian brown bear that was born in 1941 or 1942 near Hamadan, Persia. His mother was shot by a hunter and the little cub was bought on April…

During the interwar period, the Zionist community issued two series of publications intended for kids – “Aviv” and “Palestinian Library”. The first one was published in the years 1930-1935. Both…

The Government Act passed by the Four-Year Sejm on May 3, 1791, is an outstanding achievement of Polish legislation. It is considered the world’s second (after the American) written constitution.…

Steinberg is a symbol of the Soviet crime committed against Jewish officers in Katyn. He was born in the small town of Przemyślany in Gniła Lipa (today’s Ukraine). After Poland…