by Muzeum | Nov 11, 2025 | Second World War, Timeline
The date of 11 November 1918, the day on which Poland regained its independence, is symbolic. Exactly on that day, an armistice ending the First World War was concluded in a wagon in the forest of Compiègne, but the struggle for the existence of the Polish state was...
by Muzeum | Feb 4, 2025 | Recordings
The mini-documentary “There Must Be Something Left After Us” [Niech coś po nas pozostanie] is a story told by Jerzy Seweryn Puciłowski, who was arrested by the Soviets on 28 November 1944. He was held in the basement of a building on Ogrodowa Street in...
by Muzeum | Jun 12, 2023 | Profiles
When, in 1949, the International Refugees Organisation (IRO) decided to close down the Polish camps in Africa, the question arose as to what would happen to the 150 Polish orphans who had been evacuated there with General Władysław Anders’s Army from Sybir and who –...
by Muzeum | Nov 25, 2022 | Do you know that
Relacja Barbary Sokólskiej z domu Młynarz: „Mój trudny początek zaczął się 13 kwietnia 1940 roku, gdy miałam zaledwie 4 tygodnie. Wtedy to deportowano całą moją rodzinę: babcię Franciszkę Wandałowską, ciocię Jadwigę Wandałowską, wujka Antoniego Kapszawicza, mamę...
by Muzeum | Nov 25, 2022 | Journeys into the Past
Wojciech Śleszyński Krugobaikalka, the Baikal section of the Trans-Siberian Railway, is undoubtedly the most picturesque. However, what made the shores of Lake Baikal so charming – a majestic sheet of water surrounded by mountains – also gave designers and...
