80th anniversary of the Auschwitz German death camp liberation
80 years ago the Soviet soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Front liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. About 7,000 prisoners, including 500 children survived and saw their liberation. To add to the tragedy, freedom from certain death was brought to them by another, Stalinist-communist, totalitarianism that occupied Poland and Central Europe for another 40 years. Before World […]
Dziennikarka brytyjskiego The Mirror” użyła fałszywego określenia „polski obóz koncentracyjny”
W artykule dotyczącym obchodów 80. rocznicy wyzwolenia niemieckiego obozu zagłady Auschwitz, dziennikarka Lucy Thornton z brytyjskiego dziennika the Mirror użyła fałszywego sformułowania „polski obóz koncentracyjny” w odniesieniu do Auschwitz. Link do artykułu dostępny jest tutaj. Wśród naszych czytelników i internautów rozpętała się burza. Portal British Poles wielokrotnie reagował na oszczerstwa w mediach i podejmował interwencje […]
Irena Sendler – „Female Schindler” who saved 2,500 Jewish children
During World War 2, Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, transporting them out and finding a safe place in Polish families, orphanages and convents. Irena Stanisława Sendler, née Krzyżanowska, was born on 15 February 1910 in Otwock, near Warsaw, into a patriotic family. Her great-grandfather, Karol Grzybowski, fought in the January […]
The Mirror uses false and misleading “Polish concentration camp” phrase regarding Auschwitz
In an article about the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s German death camp liberation, The Mirror used the false and manipulating phrase “Polish concentration camp” to describe Auschwitz. We encourage our readers to oppose the use of such misleading and painful phrases in defence of the historical truth. In an article by Lucy […]
Ach, co to był za bal… Nasza relacja z 53. Balu Polskiego w Londynie
Na tegoroczny, już 53. Bal Polski, goście i organizatorzy czekali jak zwykle z wielkim utęsknieniem. Ponad pół wieku nieprzerwanej tradycji na Wyspach naprawdę zobowiązuje. Goście, którzy bawili się wczoraj w niezwykle eleganckich wnętrzach hotelu Intercontinental na Park Lane w Londynie, nie byli zawiedzeni! 53. Bal odbył się tradycyjnie pod patronatem Jego Królewskiej Wysokości Księcia Kentu […]
Dyrektor Anna Sochańska z MSZ przedstawiła rządowe plany współpracy z Polonią i Polakami na Wyspach
W Sali Multimedialnej odbyło się spotkanie Anny Sochańskiej, dyrektor Departamentu Współpracy z Polonią i Polakami za Granicą Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych, z Polonią i Polakami mieszkającymi w Wielkiej Brytanii. Pani Dyrektor towarzyszył Ambasador Rafał Perl, radca w Departamencie Polonii oraz Konsul Generalna RP w Londynie Renata Kowalska, Konsul Anna Tarnowska Waszak i Konsul Agnieszka Fabryczewska. Na […]
How Churchill agreed to Stalin’s territorial demands to change Polish borders
On 22 February 1944, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a speech in the House of Commons in which he de facto accepted the Soviet Union’s annexation of almost half of Polish territory. The decision was a tragic blow to the Polish government in London and millions of Poles who fought for their independence for […]
Stanisław Komaszewski – an eminent Polish artist who died as a slave labourer in the Daimler-Benz Factory during WW2
Stanisław Komaszewski, born 12 November 1906 in Nadułki near Płock, was a talented sculptor, a graduate of Warsaw’s Fine Arts Academy and associate in leading art studios of his time. Komaszewski fell victim to Nazi German extermination through labour, inside the Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp, where prisoners worked under murderous conditions at a Daimler-Benz factory. He […]
The Times: First British civilian killed in a German air raid died in Poland
In her piece for The Times, Jenny Grant tells the story of a forgotten first civilian victim of the German aggression in 1939, who killed the wife of a British intelligence officer and a volunteer nurse Sophie Shelly. Most of the British consider James William Isbister, killed during a German raid on Orkney in March […]
UK government recognises courageous efforts of Polish troops during World War II
The British government issued a statement in which it recognised the “courage and commitment shown by the First Polish Independent Parachute Brigade during Operation Market Garden”. This statement serves as an important symbol for the families of Polish veterans and their commander during the operation, General Stanisław Sosabowski. Full statement: “Last September, the British Embassy […]
