The animated film “Dżennet”, produced in 2019 by the Emigration Museum in Gdynia, received an award in the Museums in Short competition for the best video in the Storytelling category. “Dżennet” is a short animation directed by Tomasz Popakul, which tells about the extraordinary biography of Dżennet Dżabaga-Skibniewska – a Caucasian princess who settled in…
It was truly a masterful plan – starting a war as part of a a bloc of losing countries and ending up as the winner! How did Józef Piłsudski manage to do this? Wojciech Roszkowski talks about it in his book. Master game traces the birth of a free country that was erased from the…
The book Master game. Józef Piłsudski and the Rebirth of Poland by Wojciech Roszkowski has been published recently by the Polish History Museum. The 123-year experience of five Polish generations, with no state of their own under the three partitions, may have been a serious burden. But the huge task of the creation of a…
The Polish History Museum (PHM) has acquired an extraordinarily precious collection of 22 sashes worn around the waist over the kontush (an outer robe with its sleeves cut from the armhole to the elbow), a key element of the Polish nobility’s attire. The purchase has been funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage….
The Polish Republic disappeared from the map of Europe in 1795 as a result of its territory being annexed by its three neighbours: Russia, Prussia and Austria. Many generations of Poles have tried to resurrect the state since then on, their aspirations being of different nature, including political, diplomatic and military activities (along with uprisings)….
On the National Independence Day and the American Veterans Day, the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks opened a permanent exhibition that commemorates the Kościuszko Squadron 303. The new exhibit features an interactive kiosk detailing the Squadron’s extraordinary bravery and flying skills, highlights of their sorties, the aircraft they flew, and personal histories. The…
