Lublin, an unusual city in eastern Poland, was called the Jerusalem of the Kingdom of Poland. For 600 years, Jews and Poles lived together in Lublin, jointly creating a multicultural…

Berek Joselewicz was born in Kretinga (formerly Duchy of Samogitia) and died in a skirmish with the Austrians in 1809 near Kock in the Lublin region. Served as a colonel…

The Jewish population also joined the struggle for Poland’s independence. One of the examples was the series of patriotic demonstrations in 1861 Warsaw. Some Jews stood shoulder to shoulder with…

According to statistics, only a small group of Jewish veterinarians worked in the Second Polish Republic in the second half of the 1930s. They made up only 7.5% of all…

Hugo Steinhaus was a Polish Jew who fought in the Polish Legions and became a mathematical genius. His ideas helped develop medicine e.g. establish paternity. It would not have happened if…

The only Polish monarch in history who was distinguished with the name “the Great” was Casimir the Third, the last monarch of the Piast dynasty, crowned king in the Krakow…

Many people heard about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943; however, it was not the first such struggle as the Jewish combatants put up armed resistance against Germans even…

Observing the development of Borysław (now in Ukraine) in the second half of the 19th century, Józef Rogosz (1844-1894), a forgotten Galician writer and publisher, compared it to “a weed…

Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) – a versatile writer, graphic artist, painter and literary critic was proclaimed the symbol of 2022 by the Senate of the Republic of Poland. This decision will commemorate the…

The Polish parliament proclaimed the year 2022 as the Year of Polish Romanticism. To justify this choice, it was indicated that 2022 is the 200th anniversary of the publication of…