History

Built in relation to the numbers in the calendar, it had 365 windows, 52 chambers, 12 great halls and 4 towers. Its ballroom had a glass ceiling with an aquarium and the horses in the stables ate from marble troughs. Although its construction consumed unimaginable amounts of materials and funds, it remained in full bloom and splendor for only 11 years before it was destroyed by the Swedes. Today it is the most beautiful ruin in Poland.

Opatow Silica, an archaeological reserve in the Swietokrzyskie Province, is the only such place in the world where relics of an underground striped flint mine, exploited mainly in the Neolithic era, have been preserved.

This monument was not created out of a desire for revenge, but in memoriam. The monument in honor of the victims of the Volhynian Massacre was ceremonially unveiled on July 14, 2024 in the town of Domostawa, in the Jarocin commune, in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship...

His construction of the bullet-proof vest and the telectroscope placed him in the first row of the most outstanding inventors of the 20th century. He left behind innovations confirmed by more than a hundred patents. Called the 'Edison of Galicia', Jan Szczepanik divided his life between Tarnów and Vienna.

Consultations between the Polish and German governments were held in Warsaw on July 1, 2024. The words of the German Chancellor, who announced support for survivors of the German occupation, caused the greatest resonance in social media.

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.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, when the first partially free elections were held in Poland in June 1989, Americans, with the exception of the Polish community in the United States, were generally unaware of the nature of what was happening in Europe at that time. Nor did they understand the importance of Poland's role in the whole process of the fall of communism. Unfortunately, the only thing that captured the collective imagination was the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The 20th and last episode from the Not just the Ulmas series (shorts) is now available on the IPNtv channel. The film “Killed for saving Jews, Died to save Kids” presents the story of Katarzyna Filipek, a widow who, while raising seven children, accepted the responsibility of sheltering six Jews and ultimately paid with her life for it.

In September 1939, the German Reich and Soviet Union invaded Poland, launching WW2. The invasion led to staggering loss of life: throughout the war, nearly 6 million Polish citizens, 3 million of them Jews, perished. In occupied Poland, the Germans introduced capital punishment for every form of assistance to the Jewish population.