Silent Heroes - Justice For Polish Victims

Life of ‘hero biologist’ Rudolf Weigl who invented typhus vaccine and saved Poles and Jews during WWII to be retold in timely new film

PoloniaMarch 1, 2023

by PoloniaMarch 1, 20230198

The new film tells the incredible story of the Polish scientist who first developed a vaccine against the typhus epidemic – and then used...

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Dr. Józef Bellert enabled 4,400 Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners to regain their health and leave the camp.

PoloniaOctober 20, 2020October 22, 2020

by PoloniaOctober 20, 2020October 22, 202001125

When the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau in January 1945, about 4,800 prisoners remained in the camp, all of whom were in a near-death state...

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Stanislawa Leszczynska – A midwife from Auschwitz

PoloniaFebruary 20, 2020April 14, 2020

by PoloniaFebruary 20, 2020April 14, 202001328

Official Germans ordinance dictated that pregnant women were not to be sent to concentration camps. However, there were pregnant prisoners in Auschwitz, as these regulations...

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Witold Zacharewicz

PoloniaDecember 30, 2018April 15, 2020

by PoloniaDecember 30, 2018April 15, 202001328

On October 1, 1942 Zacharewicz was arrested by the Gestapo for aiding Jews. With 10 other people, including his mother the actor was involved in...

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Henryk Slawik

PoloniaMay 3, 2018April 15, 2020

by PoloniaMay 3, 2018April 15, 202001350

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...

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Colonel Valerian Tevzadze

PoloniaMay 3, 2018April 15, 2020

by PoloniaMay 3, 2018April 15, 202001107

Colonel Valerian Tevzadze (Georgian: ვალერიან თევზაძე) (February 10, 1894 – December 13, 1987) was a Georgian military officer in the service of the Democratic Republic...