On the night of 2-3 May 1921, the Third Silesian Uprising broke out. As a result of the two-month-long fighting, Poland was granted a much larger part of Upper Silesia and most of the area’s mines, steel mills and other industrial plants. In the summer of 1922, units of the Polish Army entered the territory…
The essence of this agreement was not an open and public non-aggression pact, and thus similar to many other documents of this type signed in the interwar period, but a secret protocol on the division of Central and Eastern Europe says Prof. Mariusz Wołos, a historian from the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Pedagogical…
The Battle of Warsaw, presented as a breakthrough in the history of the world, does justice to its significance, because it really determined the fact that for nineteen years the region of Central and Eastern Europe could develop a system of independent states, says historian Prof. Andrzej Nowak from the Jagiellonian University and the Polish…
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…
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…
