Urszula Dąbrowska The resourced attention of people from Poland makes Polish people in New Zealand want to learn about their identity, learn about their ancestors. This is especially important in a multicultural country where history has little meaning. Urszula...
Interview with Prof. dr hab. Karol Olejnik In the autumn of 1943, the hastily formed 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division suffered its bloody baptism of fire at Lenino. Most of the soldiers who had joined its ranks only a few months prior ended up in the Soviet...
Ewa Ziółkowska Last year in Russia, one by one, Polish memorial signs disappeared in unexplained circumstances. Crosses, plaques and – as in Levashovo on the outskirts of St Petersburg or in Yakutsk – entire multi-ton stone monuments were removed. This is...
It was definitely a special moment – just a few weeks after the German Reich’s aggression against the Soviet Union, probably the first days of August 1941. Polish and Czechoslovakian diplomats arrived in Moscow: the new chargé d’affaires of the Republic of...
This photograph, taken in 1945, shows the children and caretakers of the Polish orphanage in Staevo in the Michurinsky district, Tambov region, Komi ASRS. Along with them, Maria Halina Wołągiewiczowa, née Kozaryn, widow of tax official Fabian Wołągiewicz, a victim of...
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