History column

I will do anything to save those who can still be saved and avenge those who have been so bitterly humiliated in the final moments…

Piano music aficionados know him as a brilliant musician performing repertoire ranging from Bach to contemporary composers. On top of that, he used to play…

In May 2021, the Commission for Municipal Naming of the Warsaw City Council (Komisja do spraw Nazewnictwa Miejskiego Rady m.st. Warszawy) decided to give one…

On the night of 18-19 April 1943, on Passover eve, the Warsaw Ghetto was surrounded by German military police and Blue Police. The next morning,…

“Jews are now very pious. They observe all the ritual laws: they are stabbed and punched with holes like matzas, have as much bread as…

Among those who were involved in helping Jews during World War II were also diplomats, employees of Polish missions in various European countries. Polish diplomats…

An important element of the anti-Semitic policy of the German occupiers was the harassment during the Jewish holidays, calculated to ridicule the centuries-old tradition and…

The Jewish doctor Jakub Penson, describing the phenomenon of the typhus epidemic in the Warsaw ghetto, described it as “[…] an experiment on the ghetto…

August 1965, the Sopot Festival. Singing with a strong, expressive voice, Ewa Demarczyk made the poem “Niebo złote Ci otworzę” [“I’ll open for you a…

On 18 January 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto saw the first instance of combat between members of the Jewish underground resistance and the Germans. This act…

13 December 2020 marked the 39th anniversary of the imposition of martial law in Poland. In such a reality, in the streets of Łódź, where…