Leopold Kronenberg was born in Warsaw, on March 24, 1812. He laid the foundations for the financial power of the Kronenberg family. Leopold’s father, Samuel, was a Jewish banker from…

Switzerland is home to the finest watchmakers. After the fall of the November Uprising, Antoni Patek emigrated to this country and launched a company producing the best, most luxurious and…

As a result of the largest sabotage and subversive action in the German-occupied Greater Poland, carried out by Polish conspirators from the Home Army, German military depots in the river…

The fall of the First Polish Republic meant the transition of Polish society, including national minorities, to the power of centralized absolutist regimes, such as the occupying Prussia, Austria and…

Since 2018, by the decision of the Polish parliament, on March 24, Poland has been celebrating the National Day of Remembrance of Poles saving Jews. The date was not chosen…

One of the most successful Polish social initiatives of the second half of the 19th century was the organization of summer camps for children from the poorest Warsaw families. The…

The German death camp in Bełżec became the site of the extermination of nearly half a million Jews in less than nine months of its operation. This crime was committed…

In 1909, a strange ceremony took place at the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. After the funeral service in the cemetery synagogue, after prayers and psalms, the silent participants unveiled a…

Before World War II, about 40 percent of the Bełchatów population was Jewish. Most of them worked in weaving and small-scale textile industries. In March 1941, the Germans established a…

The great Jewish scholar Moses Isserles promoted not only the study of religious texts but also of secular sciences. He considered Poland a gift from God that saved the followers…