The V2 rocket, Hitler’s miracle weapon, was intended to decide the outcome of the Second World War. It was also thanks to Poles that Hitler’s missile centre was bombed.
Born into a Polish magnate family in 1499, Jan Łaski, Latin name Johannes à Lasco, anglicised form John à Lasco, was predestined for a distinguished political and theological career. His uncle was the...
The so-called "Polenmarkt" (Polish market) in West Berlin was visited daily by up to 40,000 Poles in 1989 and 1990. This provisional arrangement south of Potsdamer Platz quickly developed into the cit...
The archive of the Union of Poles, Zgoda (or "Harmony”), was handed over in 2015 to “Porta Polonica” and then made available to the general public in the Archive for Social Movements (AfsB) in Bochum.
The Polish Social Council has existed in Berlin since 1982. At that time it was founded to help Poles who came to Germany under martial law to find their way around in their new situation.
After the Second World War Zofia Odrobna decided to work with the children of “displaced persons” and for many of them she was simultaneously a godmother and a mother. She had many interests, especial...
The gallery presents an international programme specialising in avant-garde art, critical art and performance. Because of its origins and history it devotes a significant part of its work to promoting...
The exhibition “Literary Images of the Holocaust ‚ ‘The Passenger’ by Zofia Posmysz” (Literarische Bilder des Holocaust. ‚Die Passagierin‘ von Zofia Posmysz), 28.01.2017–06.03.2017, the Centre for the...
