Filip Mazurczak
No Polish town – and probably none anywhere in Europe – suffered more destruction than Jasło.

Filip Mazurczak
No Polish town – and probably none anywhere in Europe – suffered more destruction than Jasło.
The Polish consulate in Switzerland issued fake Latin American documents to help recipients survive under German occupation.
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The Polish Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland, became an important location for Poles exiled from their partitioned homeland.
The education minister also called for a “copy” of the Auschwitz museum to be created near Berlin, as a reminder that it was a German camp.
Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany also sought to justify Stepan Bandera’s collaboration with Nazi Germany.
There are cases in particular that could be re-examined, says the head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).
Over 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia were killed by the Soviet Union in the Katyn massacres of 1940.
Skłodowska-Curie was “a symbol of female strength and a harbinger of great change”, says Dominika Kulczyk.
The Silesian Uprisings of 1919-1921 helped ensure that part of the region broke away from Germany and joined Poland.
The Haus der Natur in Salzberg discovered the items in a warehouse in 2017 and informed the Polish embassy.
Marcin Makowski
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe experienced Russian imperialism first-hand.
The bracteates – thin, single-sided coins – found near Wałbrzych are the first such find in more than a century.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made the “decommunisation” of Polish public spaces even more urgent, says the state history institute.
More than 6,700 files were pieced together over 15 years and some have been used as evidence in court cases.