On April 7, 2022, Ludwik Dorn, a longtime Member of the Polish Parliament, former Speaker of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, passed away. Ludwik Dorn was born on June 5, 1954 in Warsaw. He attended the renowned Tadeusz Reytan Secondary School. At that time, he joined the scout team…
The organizers of the January Uprising, which broke out in the Russian partition in 1863, tried to win the peasant masses over to the national cause. The Insurgent National Government had drawn conclusions from the people’s insignificant support for the November Uprising and from the tragic Galician Slaughter. In the absence of a regular army,…
The Polish History Museum invites you to its YouTube channel to watch a debate entitled Ukraine and the Borders of the West. ‘False history is the mistress of false politics’ claimed the classic of Polish historiography Józef Szujski in the 19th century. History, or rather historiographical myths, also reverberate in Russian justifications for the current…
In October 1956, when Władysław Gomułka became the First Secretary of the Polish United Workers’ Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR), the society started to hope for the liberalisation of the communist system and more social freedom. Such hopes, expressed mainly by the intelligentsia, proved to be vain. In the autumn of 1957, the relations…
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has caused countless crimes, suffering and victims. In such circumstances people are the most important – the civilian population exposed to barbaric bombardments, the soldiers fighting the aggressor. Ukrainians are dying today defending their homeland. However, every war also means irreparable damage to national heritage and culture. Today, Ukraine’s museums face…
Appeal to people of goodwill in Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine to reject the principle of “division of the sphere of influence” The current international political crisis caused by the concentration of Russian troops on the Russian-Ukrainian border, the threat of war and the violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty, fill us, historians from Poland,…
