Salomon (Stanisław) Posner (1868-1930) was a history- maker and one of the most distinguished Polish politicians of Jewish origin. Working for the Republic of Poland, he was always aware of…

Stanisław (Shmul) Ostwind-Zuzga reached the highest military rank in the military organizations of the Polish independence underground among all Jews. He fought for Poland all his life until he was…

Each nation has its own version of pizza. Italians eat, of course, a pizza with cheese and tomato sauce. Khachapuri comes from Georgia. In the Balkans they prefer burek. The…

Lost by the Germans on February 1, 1943, the Battle of Zaboreczno in the Zamość region, suspended for several months the deportation of the Polish population, carried out from the…

Today, the average Pole associates the Jewish population with a typical urban or town community. The image of a trader and craftsman appeared in many interwar photographs with Jews standing…

Franciszka Hanna Ansztajn (1865-1942?), a poetess and independence activist, was the most famous member of the family. Her mother, Malwina, was a novelist writing in Polish: her father, Bernard, belonged…

In the preface to the second volume of the Ringelblum Archive, a Polish historian Feliks Tych (1929-2015), stated that from at least the summer of 1941, the Third Reich waged…

When Poland was under partitions, “Jacks” and “Kossaks” began to appear in every rich, bourgeois hall. They were names of the highly acclaimed paintings by Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929) and Juliusz…

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established on November 1, 2005, by the UN General Assembly to commemorate the victims murdered by the Germans during the Second World War. The…

Szmul Zbytkower loved doing business above all. Paying little attention who he was trading with, he always wanted to make a profit. However, when the Russians looted Warsaw and began…