Helena Rubinstein not only built a cosmetics empire but also changed the approach to makeup. She showed women how to take care of themselves. She helped soldiers by providing them…

Polish troops under the command of Tadeusz Kościuszko defeated the better armed Russian army on April 4, 1794. The peasant squads performed a heroic attack on the Russian artillery with…

Biskupin, a village located on Lake Biskupińskie, in today’s Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, became known in the 1930s, thanks to the discovery of a prehistoric stronghold. It was built in the 8th…

Despite the sad communist realities in Poland in the 1980s, there were people who could laugh at the authorities. The Orange Alternative ridiculed the communists in an intelligent way, emphasizing…

130 years ago, General Stanisław Maczek was born. He was the legendary commander of Polish armored units, who did not lose any battle during World War II. After the war,…

Stanisław and Franciszka Kurpiel were honored with the “Righteous Among the Nations” medal and the Commander’s Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta. 78 years ago, near Przemyśl, in the…

We do not know when Meir Ezofovich was born. Only the date of his death is known; he died presumably in 1529. At the same time, Sigismund II Augustus became…

In seized Poland in the nineteenth century, many persons achieved great fortunes thanks to cooperation with the occupying powers. Leon Nevakhovich, the entrepreneur, at one time the richest man in…

Henryk Wieniawski, a violinist, virtuoso and composer, known as the “Polish Paganini”, is considered one of the most famous nineteenth-century musicians. He owed his fame to the talent and education…

About 210,000 Jews and about 72,000 Poles died in Bezirk Białystok (Białystok District), established in July 1941. During the German occupation, it included the pre-war Białystok voivodeship (without the Suwałki…