Captain Pilecki has grown into one of the greatest heroes of modern Polish history in recent years. It is not surprising:he is a truly monumental figure. Nevertheless, historian Ewa Cuber-Strutyńska argues that he is exaggeratedly called a volunteer to Auschwitz. Is he right? The article Witold
On the night of April 30 / May 1, witches gathered on Mount Brocken. They reached Walpurgisnacht on brooms and goats. Where did this strange celebration come from? The theme of this holiday was used in Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. For centuries, it has been associated with witches Sabbaths
At the beginning of 1943, rumors started reaching the inhabitants of Przebraż that the Ukrainian hordes were murdering Poles in Volhynia, but no one believed it. And in fact - this small village survived the slaughter. Polish self-defense managed to fend off the UPA attacks, although it bloodily pai
We all know very well how efficiently the construction of highways in contemporary Poland is going. But how about the fact that basically nothing has changed in ... two hundred years? Work on the first railway in the Russian partition (and the railroads are, in a sense, the nineteenth-century equiva