The Battle of Ostrołęka is the second biggest clash of the November Uprising, and at the same time the battle, which changed the faith of this national uprising. Everything happened on 26 May 1831, almost half a year after the famous November Night. A Road to Battle Over a month has passed since t

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 Eugeniusz Mierzejewski we ran across the street towards the obelisk. Climbing the

After fierce combats in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, Polish soldiers triumphantly entered Bologna.

The last weeks of the World War Two in Europe. Last, but critical engagements, and at the same time, more victims. In the morning of 16 April 1945 the operation of crossing the Oder river started, in which soldiers of the First Polish Army took part. Among the Polish units the First Infantry Divisio

Piotr Ściegienny spent 25 years of his long, almost 90-year life in Siberia. 10 years behind Baikal, and another 15 in the city of Perm in the Urals. He got there thanks to the Tsar's "grace"...

He spent almost all his priestly life in Kazakhstan, where he was exiled. Even when he could have returned to Poland, he chose to remain with his faithful.