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2021-02-24 NEWS

A uniform and other memorabilia of Battalion Zośka's legendary commander of in the collection of the Polish History Museum

On 26 February (Friday), gifts from the Białous family were festively transferred to the Polish History Museum at its temporary seat in Warsaw. A unique uniform as well as orders and keepsakes related to Captain Ryszard Białous (nom de guerre Jerzy), the commander of the legendary Home Army battalion Zośka are now part of the permanent exhibition of the Polish History Museum in the course of development.
2021-02-10 ARTICLES

GDYNIA: POLAND'S WINDOW TO THE SEA

  95TH ANNIVERSARY OF GRANTING CITY RIGHTS TO GDYNIA
2021-01-26 ARTICLES

Auschwitz. A Bitter Taste of Liberation

The end of Auschwitz came on 27 January 1945. That day, soldiers of the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army took control of the vast camp area. About seven thousand prisoners, including several hundred children, lived to see liberation in Auschwitz, Birkenau and Monowitz. The majority of the nearly 60,000 prisoners in the entire camp complex had been evacuated earlier in what is called ‘death marches’ to the west. Since 2005, 27 January has been celebrated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
2021-01-19 ARTICLES

Like a Phoenix from the Ashes. On the 50th Anniversary of the Reconstruction of the Royal Castle in Warsaw

The former seat of Masovian dukes and Polish-Lithuanian monarchs has remained a symbol of Polish statehood for centuries. It was the venue of parliamentary sessions and witnessed triumphs (such as the homage paid to King Sigismund III by the Russian Tsar taken prisoner), but also shameful events, such as the consent of corrupt and intimidated MPs to the country’s First Partition. After Poland regained sovereignty, the writer Stefan Żeromski (known as the ‘conscience of the nation’) lived in the Castle before the President of Poland moved in there.
2020-12-23 NEWS

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2020-12-02 ARTICLES

Professor Król

There are many professors, there are also quite a number of editors-in-chief, and a handful of university deans. Holding all those public posts, and then some, Marcin Król was just a historian of ideas to many. Like no other though, he used to open, make available and redefine entire areas of intellectual legacy, unknown, banned or forgotten before.
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