At 5.45 on 1st September 2001 a red-and-white wardrobe made of cardboard was destroyed. This symbolic destruction of the wardrobe, that was witnessed by a handful of people, marked the opening of a sh...
In 1933 the Polish citizen Count Antoni Sobański described the “Heil Hitler!“ salute in the following terms: “It is indescribably comical to see two podgy old men with briefcases tucked under their ar...
In 1960 the town of Bochum opened the Kunstmuseum Bochum (as it is now known), in order to be a “foster town” for the pictorial arts alongside its support for music and drama. The town council had de...
Pola Negri was already a star in Poland – the femme fatale of the screen – when she arrived in Berlin to be greeted by hordes of enthusiastic fans. After a series of brilliant theatre performances and...
The history of Polish citizens in Germany is intimately linked with the history of their pastoral care. Most Polish-speaking immigrants to Germany were members of the Catholic Church. In terms of numb...
The first “Sokół” (Falcon) club in Germany was set up at the end of the 1880s to promote the education of Polish citizens by means of sporting disciplines and at the same time to emphasise common nati...
The rector’s office of the Polish Catholic mission was set up in 1976 to replace the Bishop’s Curia which was set up in 1945. It is the central coordination office for the spiritual care of Polish cit...
After the end of the Second World War in 1945 many Polish citizens in the Allied occupation zones decided not to return to their homeland on political grounds. These included members of Polish armed f...
The bank was set up on 8th February 1933 by a credit cooperative which was organised in the “Union of Polish Cooperatives in Germany” (Związek Spółdzielni Polskich w Niemczech). Start capital amounted...
The Polish grammar school in Marienwerder (Kwidzyń) was set up in 1937 after many previous efforts to do so. Building began in 1934. The work was financed by the Slavic Bank in Berlin and completed in...
Towards the end of the 19th century during the period when the Polish movement in Berlin grew strongly, it became ever more necessary to have a newspaper which would cater for the Polish citizens who ...
One of the most important projects undertaken by the Union of Poles in Germany was the preparation and printing of the “Lexicon of Polish Life in Germany”.
Roman Witold Ingarden, the greatest Polish phenomenologist, can be placed in the ranks of classic philosophers. His Opus Magnum “Controversy on the Existence of the World” can be compared with Aristop...
The first congress of Poles in Germany took place in Berlin on 6th March 1938. It was the largest manifestation of Poles in Germany. Around 5000 people from different parts of Germany took part in the...
The “Kulturwehr” was the organ of the “Union of National Minorities“, which united the leading organisations of the Polish, Danish, Sorb, Friesland and Lithuanian minorities in Germany.
