On August 1, 2024, we will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. We will celebrate it for 63 days, because that is how long the uprising lasted. Begun with great enthusiasm, it was supposed to last a historical moment, a few days. After 63 days, it ended in a military disaster and, at the very least, a moral defeat.
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Recently, the Bydgoszcz publishing house “Koronis” published Józef Kuffel’s book “The Phantom of Freedom” (Widmo wolności), dedicated to the participant Mrs. Stanisława “Stella” Calińska (née Walasek). She died in Petaluma in northern California in mid-July 2022.
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The world admires Maria Skłodowska-Curie, but instead of connecting her with Poland, her home country, it most often connects her with France, where she spent most of her life. We write about a great Pole, a resident of Warsaw, a woman of unique personality, and what each of us should do to refresh the memory of the Nobel Prize winner on the 90th anniversary of her death on July 4.
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