Maravitism is a Christian, exclusively Polish religion. Its origins go back to the Capuchin friar Honorat Koźmiński and the nun Maria Franciszka Kozłowska. After the January Uprising (1863), considering the…

The idea to create a special group of paratroopers appeared after the defeat of Poland in September 1939. Its initiators were Cpt. Jan Górski and Capt. Maciej Kalenkiewicz, who in…

Dow Ber Meisels was an extremely interesting character. Known primarily as an influential rabbi, he did not shy away from business and politics. He supported Polish national liberation uprisings which…

After the German invasion in September 1939, the Polish state was seized by two aggressors, the Third German Reich and the Soviet Union. Despite the defeat, the Poles did not…

Prelude – German policy in the first months of the occupation After the German army entered Łódź, they started to harass the Jews immediately. They were put into degrading or…

Marian Hemar was a Jew who became a Pole by choice and fought for his homeland. Created and performed a satirical song about Hitler, he became an enemy of the…

During the German occupation, Warsaw was completely destroyed. Reichsführer SS, Heinrich Himmler ordered to annihilate the city completely as part of the Germans’ retaliation for the Warsaw Uprising (1944). The…

February 9, 1943, is considered the beginning of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles. It was on that day when the Polish village of Parośla, also known as…

Abraham Jakub Stern, son of Jakub, was born in 1786 in Hrubieszów to a poor Jewish family. While working in this town as a watchmaker, he was also involved in…

In 1930, Poland notched up a great success in chess when its representatives took first place in the team classification at the Chess Olympics in Hamburg. In the five-person Polish…