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The Łados Group and the Attempted Rescue of Polish Jews

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Roger Moorhouse will be presenting ‘The Ładoś Group and the attempted rescue of Polish Jews’, a public lecture to coincide with the anniversary of the November Pogrom. Roger Moorhouse is a historian and author, specialising in Nazi Germany, Central Europe and World War Two in Europe. A visiting professor at the College of Europe in…

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Passports to Paraguay with historian Roger Moorhouse

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A fascinating account of how Polish diplomats tried to save Jews from Hitler’s death camps. Historian Roger Moorhouse tells the remarkable story of the the Lados Group – Polish diplomats and Jewish activists working in Switzerland, who masterminded a passport forgery scheme which is thought to have saved as many as 3,000 Jews from the…

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St. Maria Faustina Kowalska and the cult of Divine Mercy

On Divine Mercy Sunday
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A centre of entertainment and a temple of culture

 An interview with Agata Łuksza about the beginnings of Warsaw’s theatre
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Marie Walewska: Napoleon’s only love?

The fate of Napoleon’s mistress
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733–1795: Light and Flame

Review of the book by Richard Butterwick