May, 2018 - Justice For Polish Victims

Szmul Zygielbojm – a Jewish-Polish politician who committed suicide to protest the indifference of the Allied governments in the face of the Holocaust

PoloniaMay 11, 2018May 11, 2018

by PoloniaMay 11, 2018May 11, 201801903

Szmul Zygielbojm was born on February 21, 1895 in the village of Borowica, Poland (then under control of the Russian Empire). Zygielbojm left home for...

Polish Experience

Honouring ‘Silent and Unseen’ Fighters Who Led Polish Resistance

PoloniaMay 11, 2018

by PoloniaMay 11, 201802111

Seventy-five years after the Cichociemni were parachuted into Nazi-occupied Poland, British and Polish special forces mark little-known chapter of the war. Senior officers and veterans...

Polish/Jewish Relations

Patterns of Cooperation, Collaboration and Betrayal: Jews, Germans and Poles in Occupied Poland during World War II

PoloniaMay 11, 2018

by PoloniaMay 11, 201801880

Jakub Lejkin, second in command of Jewish Order Service in front of his unit. Collaboration with the Germans in occupied Poland is a topic that...

Polish Experience

Corporal Wojtek Reporting For Duty

PoloniaMay 9, 2018April 15, 2020

by PoloniaMay 9, 2018April 15, 202002253

World War II, the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the 2nd Polish Corps had an unusual soldier among its ranks, a 440-pound Syrian bear named...

Poles Under Communism Polish Experience

The Joint 1939 Nazi-Communist Conquest of Poland. Friend and Foe – The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

PoloniaMay 9, 2018January 27, 2024

by PoloniaMay 9, 2018January 27, 202401557

Bad as World War II and all its horrors were it could have been a lot worse if the Germans didn’t break the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact....

Jewish Experience

Janowska Concentration Camp And Lvov

PoloniaMay 9, 2018April 15, 2020

by PoloniaMay 9, 2018April 15, 202012617

Awful atrocities were carried out at the Janowska concentration camp and surrounding Lvov(aka Lwow and Lviv) by the Nazis, Soviet troops and Ukrainian nationalists. To...

Polish Experience

The Betrayal of Poland: 1939-1945

PoloniaMay 3, 2018June 15, 2018

by PoloniaMay 3, 2018June 15, 20183 5632

THE BETRAYAL OF POLAND: 1939-1945 Patrick J. Buchanan August 29, 1997 With Poland's membership in NATO at issue, a question has arisen as to whether...

Jewish Experience

Judenrat – Isaiah Trunk

PoloniaMay 3, 2018January 13, 2024

by PoloniaMay 3, 2018January 13, 202402017

Trunk’s subject is the Jewish Councils in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, organizations designed “”to serve only one purpose — to execute Nazi orders...

Polish Experience

Warsaw and Paris, 1940

PoloniaMay 3, 2018May 10, 2018

by PoloniaMay 3, 2018May 10, 201802347

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Silent Heroes

Henryk Slawik

PoloniaMay 3, 2018April 15, 2020

by PoloniaMay 3, 2018April 15, 202002594

Following the German and Soviet aggression against Poland in 1939, Henryk Slawik found himself in Hungary. He organized help for Poles detained there, and, under...