The 11th of July 1943 was the most devastating day of the Volhynia (Wołyń) massacre. In the space of 24 hours, 99 towns and villages were attacked, most of them in the counties of Włodzimierz and Horochowsk. The following day, 50 more settlements were attacked. The Volhynia massacre was carried out by Stepan Badera’s faction […]

So powerful was the Empire as it basked in wealth and affluence that nothing seemed to jeopardise its existence.  Ironically, it was its prosperity and the accompanying sense of security that was to bring on its own demise…. The Romans encouraged immigration, letting the newcomers into their domain to perform jobs which they themselves were […]

The Vandals are known to have once inhabited what is contemporary Poland. Faced with the expansion of the Huns at the beginning of the 5th century AD, however, they decided to leave their existing settlements. Aware of the Huns approaching and emboldened by the decline of the Roman Empire, an increasing number of hitherto unknown […]

What is often stressed with reference to WWII is the “neutrality” of a small number of countries, which did not participate in the armed conflict. At the same time, one fails to address the essential question of why it did not take Germany, humiliated after the First World War, long to build up a strong […]

On 14th June 1940 the first transport of prisoners, consisting of 728 Polish men, arrived to KL Auschwitz from Tarnow prison. Poles were the first victims of this concentration camp, and the reason Germans created it. In Poland, 14th June is the annual National Remembrance Day of the Victims of the German Nazi Concentration and […]

For the Germans, World War II was about creating a living space (Lebensraum) in the east. In order to realize these ideas, they committed genocide against the Poles. One of the symbols of this hateful ideology was the attempted displacement of the Polish population from the Zamość region. Our ancestors knew the martyrdom that our […]

Eighty one years ago, on March 5, 1940 the Political Office of KC WKP(b) made a decision to exetute Polish prisoners of War (POWs) located in camps throughout the regions of Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostaszkowo along with prisoners held by NKWD on the prewar eastern Polish soil. As the result of Russian aggression against Poland […]

Although 75 years have passed since the end of fighting in Europe this year, many followers of the Soviet narration of rescuing Poland by Soviets omit information on crimes commited by the Red Army during „liberation” and afterwards. About true reality of this period , despite that we have a great deal of reminiscences, due […]

During the years 1943-1945, the only time in the history of Poland,  on-demand abortion was available to Polish women.   It’s worth noting that the same law did not apply in Germany.  Any German woman who aborted her baby was sentenced to death.  The only exception to this law was endangerment to the mother’s life- as […]

A French public radio France Culture published a material which accuses Poland of an alleged attempt to prohibit mentioning „(…) its responsibility for crimes committed by the Third Reich”. Moreover, Frenchmen illustrated their material with a photography from April 1939 showing flags of the Third Reich and the Free City of Danzig with an inscription […]