Occupied by the Red Army and politically subordinated to the Soviets, the Polish Republic could not be reborn as an independent state within the pre-1939 borders. Between the Bug and…
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Despite its proud military history, Poland rarely based its military strength on an extensive naval fleet. One of the Polish vessels in the Second Polish Republic that made history was…
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In the Second Republic of Poland, Lake Naroch was the largest body of water of its kind, known as the “borderland sea”, where there was a great sailing and canoeing…
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Action T-4 was a German crime against the patients of the psychiatric hospital in Chelm
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsOn Friday, 12 January 1940, the Germans murdered more than 400 patients, both adults and children, staying there on the premises of a psychiatric hospital in occupied Chelm. This crime…
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Prof. Kazimierz Piech, prominent Polish botanist, participant in the Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Bolshevik War, prisoner of the Sachsenhausen camp
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsProfessor Kazimierz Antoni Piech, was born on 11 January 1893 in Sanok. He was a specialist in botany. Particularly interested in the anatomy and cytology of plants, he fought on…
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He combined the qualities of teacher, publicist, writer, and legionnaire. Bertold Merwin fought for Polish independence and founded a school for Polish children in Zambia. As a Polish Jew, he…
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Olenders, the best colonists of Mazovian riverside wetlands until 1939
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsAt first, the Olenders were settlers who came from the Netherlands and Friesland to Poland and settled in Royal Prussia in the 16th century. They were highly skilled in land…
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Jewish synagogues in the eastern lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsJewish settlement in the eastern lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth began in the second half of the 14th century with the increased colonisation campaign conducted in Ruthenia by Casimir the…
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Polish-Latvian victory over the Bolsheviks in the battle for Daugavpils
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsPoles and Latvians together recaptured Daugavpils from Bolsheviks in 1920 and defended Latvia’s independence. It was then that the Polish army used tanks for the first time in battle. In…
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“No Krakow without Henryk Halkowski and no Henryk Halkowski without Krakow”
by Dignity Newsby Dignity NewsBorn in Krakow in 1951, Henryk Halkowski learned about the history of the Jews of Krakow, and especially Kazimierz district, at a young age thanks to his grandfather’s stories that…