Lviv’s mayor called Sławomir Mentzen a “pro-Russian politician with a Polish passport”.
History
Rare meteoric iron found in 2,700-year-old artefacts in Poland
The find mean that the Polish sites now rank among the most concentrated sources of meteoric iron artefacts globally.
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In “historic gesture”, Poland’s president commemorates Belarusians killed by Polish partisans
Andrzej Duda laid a wreath at a memorial commemorating civilians killed in 1946.
Belarus declares national holiday marking Soviet invasion of Poland
The date “symbolises historical justice and reunification of the Belarusian nation”, says President Lukashenko’s office.
The glittering nightlife and thriving culture of interwar Warsaw
Juliette Bretan
The sights and sounds of a short-lived cultural explosion.
The trailblazing female academic who advocated women’s suffrage and Poland’s independence
Grażyna Kubica
Maria Czaplicka was the first female lecturer of anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Memorial to murdered Jewish ghetto escapees erected in Polish forest
The wooden monument is the work of an NGO and local officials.
The forgotten Polish priest who was one of the first advocates for international human rights
Filip Mazurczak
Paweł Włodkowic called for tolerance towards pagans, Jews and Muslims.
Polish government offers to buy Marie Skłodowska-Curie house in France
The property near Paris was recently put up for sale.
Church bell hidden from Nazis in occupied Poland dug up 80 years later
A monk ordered it to be hidden when the Germans began seizing bells to melt them down for metal.
Polish family who saved future Israeli ambassador from Holocaust found seven decades later
The family’s existence was discovered by chance in an old photo album.
Families of Auschwitz prisoners protest appointment of former PM to museum council
Among them are the descendants of Witold Pilecki, a Polish national hero who deliberately had himself imprisoned at the camp.
The interwar years at Warsaw Okęcie airport in pictures
The airport, now known as Chopin, celebrated its 87th birthday this week.
NfP podcast: a brief history of Poland, part 6 (the fall of the Commonwealth)
Stanley Bill looks at the decline and fall of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the eighteenth century.
