The Roman Catholic Church in Poland was perceived by occupiers, and especially the Germans, as a synonym of Polishness, says Prof. Jan Żaryn, a historian from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Polish Press Agency: What was the situation of Christian churches in Poland during the Second World War? Prof. Jan Żaryn: Most…
During the partitions of Poland, St. Petersburg recognized that it was impossible to erase Polish culture or to turn Poles into Russians. However, a few Russian officials (or tsars) thought that Poles/Catholics could never be fully loyal. That was the paradox of russification – says Professor Theodore Weeks. Nowadays, Poles and Russians are both…
Rafał Lemkin (1900–59) was an outstanding criminal law expert of Polonised-Jewish descent. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the John Casimir University (Uniwersytet Jana Kazimierza) in Lwów. He contributed to the codification of the Polish penal law, and analysed criminal legislations of the totalitarian regimes of Italy and Soviet Russia. In 1933, he…
On June 1, a ceremonial transfer of General Stanisław Maczek’s uniform to the Polish History Museum’s collection took place at the PHM’s temporary seat. The meeting was attended by General Maczek’s granddaughter Karolina Maczek-Skillen and PHM Director Robert Kostro. After extensive efforts, the Polish History Museum has been enriched with extraordinary exhibits: a uniform, a…
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…
