Witold Urbanowicz: 303 Squadron Fighter Ace & Commanding Officer
Born March 30, 1908, at Olszanka near Augustów, Poland, Witold Urbanowicz was trained at the Polish Air Force Academy at Dęblin, initially as a navigator.…
March 30, 2024
World War II, 1939-1945
The Polish experience in World War II.
Poles Who Saved Jews – National Day of Remembrance
March 24 is the National Day of Remembrance of Poles Who Saved Jews Under German Occupation. Today we honor the many thousands of Poles who…
March 24, 2024
“Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away” – Exhibition Opens in Boston
The “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away” exhibition, which opened in Boston last week, serves as a poignant reminder of one of the darkest…
March 20, 2024
Operation Market Garden Allied Parachutists – Rare Film Footage
We’d like to share this mesmerizing film footage of parachutists of the First Allied Airborne Army jumping into the Netherlands in Operation Market Garden, September…
March 18, 2024
Zofia Pilecka – Interview
Zofia Pilecki Optułowicz, the daughter of Polish World War II hero Witold Pilecki, author of our book The Auschwitz Volunteer, turned 91 on March 14,…
March 15, 2024
Kazimierz Prószyński – Inventor
Polish inventor Kazimierz Prószyński invented the Pleograph motion picture camera in 1894 (its name derived from the phonograph), which was both a camera and a…
March 13, 2024
The Counterfeit Countess – Janina Mehlberg
A new book, just out in January, tells the amazing true story of a brilliant Polish-Jewish woman mathematician who remade herself into a Polish Countess…
March 11, 2024
Polish Fighter Pilots – How They Fought
One of our bestselling books is the award-winning 303 Squadron: The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron, by Arkady Fiedler, in an all-new English translation…
March 8, 2024
Fighter Ace Henryk Pietrzak
Today we honor the birthday of Henryk Pietrzak, Polish World War II fighter ace, born March 6, 1914. Pietrzak joined the Polish Air Force in…
March 6, 2024
The Little Insurgent Statue – Warsaw
The Little Insurgent statue stands on Podwale Street in Warsaw, just outside the Barbican walls that protect Warsaw Old Town. Designed and created by sculptor…
March 4, 2024
Legendary Composer & Pianist Frédéric Chopin
Today is the anniversary of the birth of legendary piano virtuoso, leading Romanticism composer and Polish national hero Frédéric (Fryderyk) Chopin, on March 1, 1810.…
March 1, 2024
Polish Admiral Józef Unrug
“I forgot the German language on 1st September 1939.” — Admiral Józef Unrug Born on October 7, 1884 in Brandenburg an der Havel into a…
February 28, 2024
