When recalling his wartime experience he said: “I don’t see myself as a hero. I was just protecting my motherland.”
"The documents confirm the actions taken by the diplomats at that time and they are irrefutable evidence that the Polish government during WW II was systematically involved in rescuing Jews on the territory of occupied Poland from the extermination brought to them by the Germans," Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Paweł Lewandowski, told The First News.
World-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, who designed the Złota 44 residential tower in the heart of the Polish capital, has won the Warsaw City Prize.
The First News attends ‘double moving’ ceremony at the Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW) in honour of former employees Czesław and Helena Lech who were awarded the Righteous Among Nations medal. The event also remembered the 74th anniversary of the taking and defence of the strategically-placed PWPW building.
The Warsaw Uprising was the single largest military effort ever undertaken by any European Resistance group during WWII.
Best-known for refusing to escape the Warsaw Ghetto and instead choosing to accompany orphaned children in his care to the horrors of Treblinka German Nazi death camp where he was killed, Janusz Korczak was not only a devoted children’s rights campaigner but also an outstanding intellectual, author and military doctor. Today he would have been 140.
Julie Engelbrecht stars in Pasikowski’s film about Jan Nowak Jeziorański
Polish war hero Jan Nowak Jeziorański hits the big screen in new James Bond-style action film.
The London Jewish community on Thursday honoured persons who helped Jews during the Holocaust, including two Poles, Irena Sendler and Janusz Korczak, by unveiling commemorative plaques dedicated to them at the Hoop Lane cemetery, located north of the city.
Today marks the 18th anniversary of the death of Jan Karski, the man who told the Allies about WWII atrocities in German Nazi-occupied Poland.
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