During World War II, Nazi Germany not only wanted to permanently move the Polish-German border to the east and germanize the population of the occupied territories, but also intended to…

215 years ago, Wincenty Pol was born in Lublin. The son of a German official became one of the most famous Polish poets. He was a lazy student but received…

Maria Jadwiga Ossowska (née Niedźwiedzka) is one of the most famous women of Polish science in the humanities. She dealt with philosophy, psychology, sociology and history, defined the subject of…

In the fall of 1943, Czesław Brzeziński was 11 years old. He was just returning home from school when he realized that his cottage in the Gutanów village was surrounded…

In 1940, two daughters of general Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, the commander of the Greater Poland Uprising (1918-1919) and the defender of Lwow in the war with Soviet Russia in 1920, were…

The achievements of Julian Klaczka (1825-1906), or rather Jehuda Lejb, for Polish culture, are now completely forgotten. Many researchers were particularly fascinated by his glittering and extraordinary European career. How…

The Żabiński couple, who ran the ZOO in Warsaw before the outbreak of World War II, hid Jews during the war. The entire family, including the children, did it under…

“Mickiewicz made me a Pole.” This is what Wilhelm Feldman, one of the most important positivist-modernist literary critics, writer, playwright, politician and social activist, promoter of the assimilation of Jews…

Eighty years ago, on April 18, 1942, the Germans murdered a group of 14 young women in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, who were sent there from Lublin. Among them were…

Inhabitants of Mohylew (today’s Mogilev) in eastern Belarus became free on the morning of March 7, 1918, when Polish soldiers entered the city. The Bolsheviks were expelled, there were no…