Historia

Former US President Donald Trump, during his visit to Europe on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, announced to the then Chief of Staff of the White House, John Kelly: "Well, Hitler did many good things," reported the British daily The Guardian.more

Major differences between the lives and attitudes of Germans in the west and east of the country persist 30 years after reunification, a range of studies released show.more

Italians, who do not know the history of Poland or have only random knowledge, often do not understand the Polish nation - assessed historian Marco Patricelli, university lecturer and writer, author of the biography of Captain Witold Pilecki - "Volunteer".more

Archaeologists have discovered the human remains of around 200 people, believed to belong to a Christian community going back to the 6th century at a popular beach in Pembrokeshire.more

"Until the 1980s, millions of German children were sent to health spas for treatment. Many of them were abused there. Depriving them of sleep, humiliating, exposing, chaining to bed, beating were part of the educational repertoire" - the German daily "Suedeutsche Zeitung" reports.more

A statue is being unveiled in honour of a Polish civil servant who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two. The sculpture of Irena Sendler, who passed away in May 2008, has stand in Newark, Nottinghamshire.more

A bust of General Władysław Anders was unveiled yesterday at the National Army Museum in London. This is his first monument in Great Britain. Also yesterday a commemorative plaque was unveiled on the building where he lived.more

Yesterday at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London, prizes in a competition for British high school students for a historical essay devoted to Captain Witold Pilecki were presented.more

Yesterday, in the bunker complex in Mamerki, an attempt was made to search for the legendary Amber Room. The tenant of the complex, Bartłomiej Plebańczyk, penetrated four technical tunnels in the glow of a flashlight. They were all empty.more

A museum dedicated to the soldiers of the 1st Armored Division of General Stanisław Maczek, which liberated this country from the German hands during World War II, is being established in Belgium. The opening is planned for March 31, 2022, on the 130th anniversary of Maczek's birth.more

When Jakub protested in a history lesson against a lie in a French textbook on the complicity of Poles in the extermination of Jews in the Treblinka concentration camp, he was called in class "a descendant of the murderers", his parents betrayed. The teenager, however, managed to get a correction and apology from the publisher of the textbook.more

A Unesco committee has recommended that Liverpool should lose its World Heritage status. The threat of Liverpool's demotion has rumbled on for more than a decade after modern developments on the city's waterfront.more

The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Italy regretted the incident at the Monte Cassino cemetery with the participation of the Belarusian delegation. Polish diplomats emphasize that putting flowers with the signs of a sickle and a hammer is the use of places of memory and symbols to "provoke and fester".more

A plaque in memory of Grimsby war heroes has been defaced and splattered with spray paint. Each of the faces have been cruelly blotted out as though shot with a paintball gun.more

Following protests by the Polish embassy in Rome and Twitter users, including Poles, the Italian daily "Il Fatto Quotidiano" removed the phrase "Polish Nazi camp" in reference to the German Stutthof camp. It's an offensive term, the embassy assessed.more

An Oxford University students' group has voted to take down a portrait of the Queen from its common room. It reportedly made the decision because some students believe she represents "recent colonial history".more

Today, the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland launched a portal - an archive of stories told by its participants and witnesses. The website will include memories from the years of the Second Polish Republic, the German and Soviet occupation during World War II, as well as from the period of the Polish People's Republic.more

Commemorative boards marking the contribution of the Polish Army during World War Two were unveiled during a special ceremony at the remembrance garden at the Polish Air Force Memorial in South Ruislip yesterday.more

British investigators, shortly after World War II, gathered detailed information about the crimes committed by the Germans in the concentration camps on Alderney Island - the only camps in the British Isles - but the authorities did nothing about it and did not hold the perpetrators accountable. Today the case became loud again.more

The second largest city in Sweden, Gothenburg, known e.g. from Volvo cars or the Fish Church, it is 400 years old. On this occasion, residents will eat 100,000. jubilee cookies.more

Lidia Maksymowicz, a Polish woman of Belarusian origin who survived Auschwitz, received yesterday a symbolic Maglia rosa of Giro d'Italia in gratitude for her peaceful message during her educational journey through Italy.more

The New York Kosciuszko Foundation yesterday accused Democratic Congressman from Tennessee Steve Cohen of lying about blaming Poland for German concentration camps and demands an apology from him.more

Witold Pilecki is not a figure locked in the history of Poland, because his life is still an up-to-date and universal message - said the participants of the seminar devoted to him, which took place in London yesterday evening.more

A set of gold rosary beads carried by Mary Queen of Scots at her execution in 1587 was among items worth more than £1m stolen in a raid on Arundel Castle.more

For more than a half century, a wooden house on quiet 43rd Avenue in Elmhurst served as a cultural hub for Polish expats, welcoming artists, scholars and leaders who lived in New York City after escaping the post-World War II Iron Curtain.more