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

For several decades after the war, families referred to the victims of the Roundup as “missing” because they did not know their fate. Many believed that they had been deported to Sybir, and that they would one day return. It was not until 2011 when Nikita Petrov, a researcher from the (now illeg

On May 18, 1944, soldiers of the 2 Polish Corps hung the Polish flag on the ruins of the Monte Cassino monastery.

On 30 January 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) decided to launch the largest resettlement operation in the entire history of the Soviet Union, still referred to today as the 'kulak deportation'.

Father Jan Cieplak was auxiliary bishop of the Mogilev archdiocese, at that time the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the world, covering the whole of Russia up to Sakhalin.