Witold Pilecki in the dock in 1948. Witold Pilecki Polish soldier, cavalry captain, voluntary prisoner of KL Auschwitz. Witold Pilecki was born on May 13, 1901. He grew up in Vilnius, he was one of the scouts. At the end of World War I, in 1918, he joined the self-defense troops. In the years 19
Marie Rosalie Bonheur , known as Rosa Bonheur (1822 – 1899) is a French painter and sculptor, specializing in animal representations. First exhibitions in fairs Born March 16, 1822 in Bordeaux, Marie Rosalie is the daughter of Sophie Marquis and Raymond Bonheur. His father, a painter, encouraged h
Born in Trier in 1818, Karl Marx studied in Bonn and Berlin, where he presented his doctoral thesis in 1841. In 1942, having abandoned his plans for an academic career, he became editor of the opposition newspaper to the Prussian regime, the Rhenish Gazette . The newspaper was censored, and in 1843
Victoria Hanoverka (actually Alexandrine Victoria; May 24, 1819–22 January 1901) ruled for 63 years (in the entire history of Great Britain only Elizabeth II overtook her in terms of the length of her reign). The Queens influence on the history of her own country and Europe was so great that the en