During World War II, the Germans looted many Polish works of art and many of them have not yet been found. It seemed that the “Jewess with Oranges” – a…
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Menachem Begin was born on August 16, 1913, in Brest on the Bug into a religious Jewish family as Mieczysław Biegun. He attended a private elementary school run by the…
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Along the road from Kiwery to Kołki there was a town called Trochenbrod by the Jews of Volhynia, and Zofiówka by Poles. The former owner of that territory was an…
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The first bulletproof vests were made at the end of the 19th century by two Poles- the Catholic monk Kazimierz Żegleń and the teacher Jan Szczepanik. In 1893, a terrorist…
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Janusz Korczak, an outstanding Polish-Jewish educator and doctor, is widely known in Poland. Certainly, many viewers will remember the 1990 film “Korczak” directed by Andrzej Wajda, where “Old Doctor” was…
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Propaganda and disinformation have always been key tools in the exercise of power in Soviet Russia. The deluge of the state lies inextricably accompanied the Soviet Union’s aggression against Poland…
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On September 17, 1939, the Soviet army entered Poland as a consequence of the treaty concluded between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union on August 23, 1939, known as…
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Governor Stiepan Stiepanowicz Gromieka, an Orthodox bigot whose daughter became the abbess (igumeni) of the monastery, in 1875 took away from Catholics the baroque collegiate church of St. Anna in…
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Called the Promised Land or the Polish Manchester in the second half of the 19th century, Łódź was generally considered to be a city that did not fulfil the cultural functions of urban life. Even in…
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Polish actress Krystyna Feldman took her first acting steps at the age of 5. She did not play the main role until the age of 88 and her protagonist was a male
Krystyna Feldman, an actress from a Polish-Jewish family, is known in Poland mainly for her role in a popular comedy series. However, few know that during World War II she…