TIMELINE
22.04.1908 – Janina Lewandowska – a pilot who loved life
Second Lieutenant pilot Janina Lewandowska wasn't really the only woman, who died in Katyn, but the only female soldier who was shot there.
31.10.1906 – Marian Malinowski – Exile, fugitive, minister
On 31 October 1906 Marian Malinowski set off, as he himself put it, “on a journey into the unknown at government expense.”
7.07.1892 – Jan Czerski – Scientist, Insurgent, Exile
He died on 7 July (25 June according to the Julian calendar) 1892 on the Siberian river Kolyma.
5.12.1867 – Józef Piłsudski’s Birthday
On December 5, 1867, Józef Piłsudski was born at the manor house in Zułów.
30.11.1830 – The outbreak of the November Uprising
“Poles! The hour of vengeance has come. Today die or prevail! Let us go, and let your breasts be Thermopylae for your enemies!”
4.11.1794 – Some sort of devilish lust for destruction…
This is what journalist Bruno Korotyński wrote in 1924 about the slaughter in Warsaw’s Praga district. It was one of the last, and at the same time most tragic, episodes of the Kościuszko Uprising. On 4 November 1794, after the Polish army had been defeated, Cossacks slaughtered about 20,000 civ
