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‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children. Mausoleum of Martyrdom of Polish Villages in Michniów

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

Remembering the Polish anti-Soviet independence movement founded 75 years ago

We take a look at the Freedom and Independence movement formed to combat Soviet terror in Poland following World War 2.

‘I am a Jew. My place is in the struggle against the Nazis for the honour of my people and for a free Poland’: the little-known story of the female assassin who terrorised the Nazis

Audacious and courageous Niuta Tajtelbaum would use her good looks to bypass guards in order to carry out her deadly work.

London Bridge terror hero named as kitchen porter Łukasz Koczocik

The Polish hero who suffered severe injuries during one-to-one combat with terrorist Usman Khan is revealed as a mild-mannered hiking and scuba-diving enthusiast.

District of death: New book tells chilling untold story of how Stalin’s notorious NKVD turned Warsaw district into death centre

In her book, Teoria Wyzwolenia (Theory of Liberation), Anna Straszyńska maps out in detail all the key addresses in Praga where the NKVD set up its interrogation and arrest centres, where prisoners were executed and even where the perpetrators lived.

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