After Poland regained independence in 1918, a small group of Polish students (at least 93) remained at the University of Breslau (Wrocław), at that time, the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University of B...
After escaping from a conservative Jewish background in the Polish town of Będzin, she led an eventful life shaped by her pursuit of freedom as well as her loyalty to her love and her traditions.
Janina Musiałczyk was born in Kraśnik, in Poland. Since 1981, her drawings, imagery, and paintings have focused on the themes of flight and human relations.
In Eschwege, there is a monument to David Ben-Gurion commemorating his 1946 visit to the UNRRA Displaced Persons (DP) camp, which mainly housed people of Polish-Jewish origin.
In the cemetery of the small town of Bruttig-Fankel on the Mosel river, there are seven stone grave crosses bearing dates of death from March to July 1944
In July 1941, the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler changed the process for imposing punishments, including the death sentence, on Polish forced labourers for alleged offences.
During the 1960s, she was the undisputed queen of beat music in Poland, and a hugely popular idol among Polish young people. At the end of the 1970s, Stanek continued her musical journey under the nam...
The Hinzert SS special camp/concentration camp, near Hermeskeil in the Hunsrück region (today in Rhineland-Palatinate) fulfilled various different functions in the National Socialist camp system.
