Besides Polish women and old people, also infants and children were the victims of the Ukrainian nationalists in Volhynia. Accounts, memoirs, and documentation show that when confronted with mass murders,…

The reign of the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski, was, on the one hand, a period of undertaking political reforms with the Constitution of 3 May 1791, as…

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…

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…

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…

On 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…

Professor 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…

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…

At 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…

Jewish 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…