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Taking a break from our series of Warsaw Uprising blog posts — it’s time for our Mascot of the Month! The name of this stylish…
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Taking a break from our series of Warsaw Uprising blog posts — it’s time for our Mascot of the Month! The name of this stylish…

Continuing our series of blog posts about the Warsaw Uprising, drawing from our award-winning book The Color of Courage, by Julian Kulski: CHAPTER 6 AGE…

Continuing our blog series on the Warsaw Uprising, drawing from our award-winning book The Color of Courage, by Julian Kulski: CHAPTER 6 AGE 15: 1944…

Continuing with our series of blog posts about the Warsaw Uprising, we will draw from our award-winning book The Color of Courage—A Boy at War:…

80 years ago today, on August 1, 1944, the Warsaw Uprising began. “At exactly five o’clock, as planned, a wave of explosions and bursts of…

Today is the 80th anniversary of a coup by Polish Underground Intelligence and British Special Operations Executive (SOE). On July 25, 1944, a Dakota transport…

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Poland’s participation in the Summer Olympics! Polish athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympics since 1924, except for…

American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once wrote: “Music is the universal language of mankind” — music has the ability to transcend different cultures and times,…

While dogs were the most common mascots, they were only one of many furry or feathered companions adopted by fighting units during the war. These…

On July 9, 2024, leaders of POSK (Polski Ośrodek Społeczno-Kulturalny, or Polish Social and Cultural Association) in London were awarded the Reipublicae Memoriae Meritum medal…

Today we honor the birthday of Zdzisław Krasnodębski, the first Polish commander of the legendary 303 Squadron, who was born 120 years ago on July…

The German government has approved the establishment in Berlin of an institution that will commemorate Polish victims of Nazi Germany. It says that the enormous…
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