Vytenė Muschick I was a teenager when Dalia Grinkevičiūtė passed away in 1987. I knew her personally from my summer visits to Laukuva in Lithuania, where she lived at my aunt’s house. I knew her but I didn’t know her true life story and her struggle for survival as a...
Adam Hlebowicz The formation of the underground youth organisation Union of Defenders of Freedom (Związek Obrońców Wolności) in 1946 in Soviet-annexed Polesia arouses amazement and admiration for the heroism and determination of a group of Polish youth. After two...
Polish flag over Berlin, 2nd May 1945, public domain When the bullets from Polish cannons and series of bullets from PPSh drove the Nazis from the column out, together with platoon sergeant Kazimierz Otap, corporal Antoni Jabłoński and gunners Aleksander Karpowicz and...
Paul Lubas is 58 years old and runs a motel in Murchison, in the northern part of the South Island (New Zealand). He is married and has four grown-up children. His father Lech was born in 1932 in the Polish settlers’ colony Sienkiewiczówka near Tarnopol. Lech...
Polish and allied forces entering the Bologna. General Klemens Rudnicki driving the car, general Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko on his left, public domain The last battle of the Polish soldiers on the Italian front. The last battle of the II Corps in Italy. After fierce...
