The Day of Remembrance of the “Cursed Soldiers” was established by the Polish Parliament in 2011. It is celebrated on 1 March as a tribute to the soldiers of the…

The history of the Krakow-Vilnius trail dates back to the Middle Ages. It was traveled by kings, diplomats, knights, clergy, scientists, artists, officials and merchants. As the most important road…

 During World War II, many Polish families were murdered by the Germans. In many cases, they were killed after the end of WW2 as a result of the resistance against…

The Polish state in the interwar period was a multinational country in which about 34% of its inhabitants declared non-Polish nationality. The ethnic divisions were enhanced with a religious and…

Father Jan Gielarowski was the parish priest in Michałówka near Radymno (now Podkarpackie Province). During the war, he was actively involved in helping his parishioners. He was born on June…

In 1912, for the first time in history, an extract containing thiamin (later known as vitamin B12) was isolated from food by a Pole of Jewish origin, Kazimierz Funk, who…

At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, after the partitions of the First Polish Republic, a town Puławy became the main center of Polish culture, known as the…

Since the government in Płock was taken over by the German civilian administration, it began brutal persecution of Jews. The city synagogue was turned into a car workshop, and the…

Today some people call him the Jewish Al Capone. Bornsztajn started his criminal career after the tsarist policeman killed his father. Although he belonged to the criminal underworld, he could…

The territory of today’s Poland was inhabited by Slavic tribes. One of them was the Polan tribe living in the area of today’s Greater Poland. The name of Poland is…