Historia

German national footballers Leon Goretzka and Joshua Kimmich also support the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial in Poland with their “We kick Corona” relief campaign.more

The National Bank of Poland issued a collector's banknote with a nominal value of PLN 20, commemorating the Battle of Warsaw in 1920. This is the first Polish banknote in a vertical format - the NBP announced today.more

The 99-year-old Duke of Edinburgh will participate in commemorations of the 7th anniversary of VJ Day taking place across the United Kingdom. Service of remembrance and thanksgiving for the war heroes will take place on August 15.more

76 years ago, on August 1, 1944 at At 5:00 p.m. ('W' hour), by the decision of the Home Army Commander, Gen. Tadeusz Komorowski 'Bor', an uprising broke out in Warsaw. For 63 days, the insurgents waged a heroic and lonely fight with the German troops, the goal of which was an independent Poland, free from German occupation and Soviet domination.more

"Poles for the world. Famous unknown" and "Polish Architects in the world" - these are books published by employees of the Department of Cooperation with Polish Diaspora and Poles Abroad of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which promote the achievements of Poles, unknown to the wider public. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces the continuation of this project.more

"In the UK there is widespread awareness of the participation of Poles in the battle for Great Britain today, but the fight for history continues, it must be remembered" - says Artur Bildziuk, president of the Polish Air Force Association in Great Britain. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the battle.more

A man has been arrested after a fire broke out at the gothic cathedral of Nantes in western France on Saturday, said the city's prosecutor.more

The Enigma double is being donated by the Polish Institute in London to the Museum of Polish History, which is currently being built at the Citadel in Warsaw.more

A sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester has been removed from the plinth where a statue of slave trader Edward Colston once stood. The sculpture of Jen Reid was erected on Wednesday but removed by Bristol City Council just over 24 hours later.more

Poland and the United Kingdom can today, just like 80 years ago, face opponents together - wrote the Polish ambassador in London Arkady Rzegocki in a text published yesterday in the Daily Telegraph on the anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Great Britain.more

Alan Turing's nephew, Sir Dermot Turing, was awarded the Polish state award for his efforts to highlight the role of Polish cryptologists in breaking the Enigma code.more

The latest book written by British historian Roger Moorhouse "Poland 1939. The first against Hitler" will be published in the United States on July 14. - the author said on Twitter.more

MPs are reportedly pushing for a new Desecration of War Memorials Bill after the Cenotaph was daubed with graffiti during anti-racist protests, with penalties tougher than those for crimes like assault.more

Archaeologists have discovered a wide circle of deep shafts surrounding an ancient settlement close to Stonehenge, opening up new lines of investigation into the origins and meaning of the mysterious, prehistoric monument.more

A crowd of protesters gathered around a statue of George Washington in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday night and lit a fire on its head before pulling it to the ground. Photos and video from the scene showed that the statue was spray painted with "Genocidal Colonist," "You're on native lands," "BLM" and "Big Floyd".more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the establishment of a government commission to combat inequalities in employment, access to health care or education, but stressed that this inequality would not be overcome by removing historical symbols.more

June 14, 1940, the date of the first mass transport to KL Auschwitz, is also the tragedy of Germany, which from that moment must face the responsibility for the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind - said in Berlin today the ambassador of Poland in Germany prof. Andrzej Przyłębski.more

80 years ago, on June 14, 1940, Germany carried out the first deportation of Poles to the Auschwitz camp. They brought 728 men from the prison in Tarnów. Poles became the first prisoners of Auschwitz, because it was for them that the Germans created a camp.more

Street signs in Liverpool’s Penny Lane have been vandalised as speculation mounted that the road was named after a slave trader. Four signs on the thoroughfare, made famous by The Beatles song of the same name, were spray-painted over on Friday morning, with the word “racist” painted on the wall above one sign.more

It is "absurd and shameful" that a statue of Winston Churchill has had to be boarded up because of fears it could be vandalised, the prime minister says. Boris Johnson said the war-time leader had expressed opinions which were "unacceptable to us today" but remained a hero for saving the country from "fascist and racist tyranny".more

Anti-racism campaigners have listed Nelson’s Column among the statues they want to see brought down.more

"Poland was to become a working class without leaders," explained Professor Nikolaus Wachsman of Birkbeck College during a seminar organized by the Pilecki Institute in Germany. The seminar was organized on the occasion of the upcoming 80th anniversary of sending the first transport of prisoners to the German Auschwitz camp. more

A square is to be erected in Berlin on September 1, together with a monument to commemorate Germany's invasion of Poland and the documentation center of the German occupation. The German Institute of Polish Affairs and the Foundation for the Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe made such a proposal on Tuesday.more

Statues and street names in London with links to slavery "should be taken down", the city's mayor has said.more

A statue of a slave trader which was torn down during an anti-racism protest in Bristol was "an affront", the city's mayor has said. Mayor Marvin Rees said he felt no "sense of loss" after the controversial bronze statue of Edward Colston was pulled down and thrown into the harbour by protesters on Sunday.more