Maciej Dawidowski “Alek”- a young hero of the Polish resistance against German occupation
On 3 November 1920, in the town of Drohobycz in Galicia, Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski was born into an unusual domestic environment for the era. His parents, Janina and Aleksy, both engineers by profession, mother chemist, father technologist, provided a household where intellectual rigor, socially-minded enterprise and a sense of civic duty were the norm. Those […]
Doktor Kościoła Kardynał Newman – Droga przez Oxford do świętości
Życie kard. Newmana inspiruje do dziś i jest dla wielu przykładem dla innych. Na terenie parafii Bożego Ciała w Oxfordzie, w klasztorze Sióstr Najświętszego Serca Msze św. celebrował ks. Anthony de Vere — konwertyta, który po 40 latach bycia księdzem anglikańskim przeszedł na katolicyzm. Ks. de Vere mieszkał z żoną nieopodal klasztoru. Sam klasztor znajduje się na terenie […]
Historic: The British King and the Pope prayed together at the Sistine Chapel
History echoed through the Sistine Chapel, as Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III knelt side by side in prayer, an encounter unseen since the days of Henry VIII. Queen Camilla joined her husband for what Vatican officials described as “a moment of profound spiritual reconciliation.” It was the first time since the Reformation in England that […]
Hitler-Stalin Pact: How Germany and the USSR divided Poland in 1939
On 23 August 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact, commonly known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Hidden within its secret additional protocol was an agreement that carved up Central and Eastern Europe into spheres of influence, effectively extinguishing the sovereignty of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Romania. The secret additional […]
17-year-old Polish Kornelia Wieczorek honoured among TIME’s “Girls of the Year 2025”
At just 17, Kornelia Wieczorek from Łódź has secured a place on TIME magazine’s prestigious “Girls of the Year 2025” list. The recognition celebrates young trailblazers under the age of 18 who are already transforming the world around them. As a teenager, Kornelia created a biodegradable fertiliser based on Rhizobium bacteria, designed to support plant […]
Żegota: Polish underground organisation that rescued Jews from the Holocaust
On 4 December 1942, in the heart of German-occupied Warsaw, an extraordinary institution came into being. Operating under the Government Delegation for Poland – the clandestine representative of the Polish Government-in-Exile – the Council for Aid to Jews, codenamed “Żegota”, began its mission. It would continue until early 1945 and remains unique in the annals […]
RAFA RIDES 2025: Hołd dla Bohaterów – Polacy na Rajdzie Rowerowym w Kendrew Barracks
W sobotę, 14 czerwca 2025 roku, baza wojskowa RAF- Cottesmore – Kendrew Barracks stała się miejscem niezwykłego wydarzenia, które połączyło sport, historię i wspólnotę międzynarodową. Pod egidą Royal Air Forces Association (RAF Association) odbył się coroczny rajd rowerowy RAFA RIDES 2025, w którym udział wzięło blisko pół tysiąca pasjonatów kolarstwa. Wśród uczestników szczególnie wyróżniała się […]
Poland celebrates the National Day of Silesian Uprisings
Main celebrations marking Poland’s National Day of the Silesian Uprisings took place at the Monument to the Silesian Insurgents atop Góra Świętej Anny — the site of the most strategic battle of the Third Silesian Uprising of 1921 and in Katowice, near the famous Three Wings Memorial. The national holiday is aimed at celebrating the […]
Witold Kieżun – a hero of the Warsaw uprising and a famous scholar
Witold Kieżun was born on 6 February 1922 in Vilnius. A soldier of the Home Army and a veteran of the Warsaw Uprising, he later rose to prominence as a distinguished economist and praxeologist. Witold Kieżun, born in 1922 in Vilnius, moved with his family to Warsaw in 1931. There, he completed his secondary education […]
Polish President-elect receives official confirmation, calls for building national unity
Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s president-elect, has praised the nation’s strong voter turnout as a sign of civic responsibility and democratic engagement. Speaking at a ceremony in Warsaw’s Royal Castle on Wednesday, where he officially received confirmation of his election victory from the National Electoral Commission, Nawrocki said the presidential contest had shown that Poles are determined […]