Agata Reul, born in Pomerania, created her own unmistakable brand. But she has not forgotten her Polish roots – you can see them, hear them and even taste them.
Since the middle of the 19th century, the so-called “Ruhr Poles” have been taking up industrial activities in the west of Germany, organizing themselves in the initial phase as a national team. Over t...
Gerhard Richter, one of today's most important artists, created an abstract painting entitled Birkenau in 2014. This painting is a remarkable place of remembrance of Poles in Germany.
Kazimierz Odrobny, the activist, teacher, politician and holder of honorary posts; a character whose life and activities in exile were linked to the concerns of Polish refugees in the Federal Republic...
Magdeburg is known in Poland above all as the place where Józef Piłsudski was interned. The fortress there is a frequent reminder of the imprisonment of the leader of the Polish legions and one of the...
There are many Polish graves in the Perlacher Forst in Munich. Polish victims of justice who were sentenced to death by National Socialist courts and executed with a hatchet in the nearby Stadelheim p...
Pół Żydówka i pół Niemka, urodzona w wielokulturowym Białymstoku: Helena Bohle-Szacki była pierwsza polska powojenna projektantka mody, o której usłyszał świat za żelazną kurtyną, a także ikona polski...
The linguist, Slavist, Polish publicist and professor at the University of Heidelberg and Göttingen Andrzej Vincenz was born on 13 March 1922 in Lemberg.
Emilia Smechowski's book “Wir Strebermigranten” is less a family story than a description of the collective attitude of Polish migrants in the final phase of communism.
Die Geschichte der Familie Jankowski aus Herne gehört sicherlich zu den „klassischen“ Schicksalen der Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts ins Ruhrgebiet eingewanderten Polen.
The history of the Tomczak family’s emigration to the Ruhr area begins in 1918 in the small village of Orkowo, in the district of Śrem (Province of Poznan). After 100 years in Oberhausen, it leads bac...
Marcel Reich-Ranicki once said about himself: “I am 50% Polish, 50% German and 100% Jewish”. In Germany he has gone down in history as the “Pope of German Literature”: an equally entertaining and erud...
The aim was to avoid controversial topics and the dissemination of prejudices and propaganda about Poland and Germany. The contents of history and geography textbooks in the past often reflected the s...
