History
BOGDAN KĘDZIORA
When in the morning of September 17, 1939, the Red Army crossed the eastern border of the Second Polish Republic, it was accompanied by a campaign of lies about Poland and the causes of Soviet aggression. After many years, despite the collapse of the USSR, the historical policy of modern Russia has changed little, also in assessments of the Second Polish Republic »
MATEUSZ MORAWIECKI, THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND
The attack of Nazis Germans on Poland on 1 September 1939 and the later Soviet aggression on 17 September meant the second apocalypse for Poland. Poland could not win on its own with the two most powerful armies of the world »
STRONG WITH HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE
ANDRZEJ DUDA, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND
In the early morning on 1 September 1939 the most tragic chapter of humankind history began »
DESTROYING THE GENERATION OF THE YOUNGEST POLES
MATEUSZ WYRWICH
In the beginning of the frosty December 1942 the Germans made the first transport of a few dozen children to the camp Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannnstadt – a camp for children and youth organized by the Germans on the area of a ghetto in Łódź, in the district of Bałuta. Children from about 2 to 16 years old were imprisoned there. »
SŁAWOMIR BŁAUT
Wieluń is a town onto which the first German bombs fell during the Second World War, and the culprits of the committed crimes there escaped punishment. In the early morning on 1 September 1939, village hosts were arriving for a fair in the small town being still asleep. At 4.40, surprised, heard siren whistle and the whine of arriving planes. It was the first wave of the German attack Luftwaffe – 29 bombers diving. Wieluń became the arena of terrifying scenes. »
JAN ŻARYN
Beginning with the year 1945, members of the Polish Labour Party read their party’s instructions carefully, according to which 1 may – the Labour Day – was to symbolize the victory of ‘people’s democracy’, whereas the day of 3 May, despite being officially celebrated, was to be evaluated negatively in propaganda, as religiosity and backwardness. »
CONSTITUTION IN THE SHADOW OF TARGOWICA
SŁAWOMIR BŁAUT
Confederation of Targowica – the symbol of betrayal, the end of dreams about the great work of the Constitution of 3 May. To request of reforms opponents, foreign armies overwhelmed the Polish Republic. It was so 225 years ago under the motto ‘freedom defence’ when there were attempts to maintain privileges, maintain lawlessness, defend self-interest »
SŁAWOMIR BŁAUT
On 17 September, the anniversary of the invasion of the Soviet Union onto Poland In 1939, we celebrate the World Day of the Siberians. Poles, considered by Stalin, as enemies of a new ideology, experienced gehenna after the IV partition of the Polish Republic »
ANNA CICHOBLAZINSKA
Will the Church in Poland experience the event of this type as the VI World Youth Days in Czestochowa in 1991? Two years before there was the first free election and a year before that the Berlin Wall was pulled down. »
MARTYROLOGY OF THE POLISH CLERGY
WOJCIECH WICHNIOWSKI
- Saint martyrs are for us a great example of faith – said archbishop Józef Kowalczyk in the sanctuary of St. Joseph in Kalisz on 29 April 2015, on the 70th anniversary of the concentration camp liberation in Dachau and on the Day of Martyrology of the Polish Clergy »
FR. MAREK ŁUCZAK
- Let’s pray so that what happened here, would never take place in the future, neither on our Polish land nor anywhere in the world – said archbishop Stanisław Gądecki to participants of the Eucharist celebrated on 29 April 2015 on the area of the former Dachau camp »
THE SECOND WORLD WAR: WHAT IS THE MEMORY ABOUT IT?
ANDRZEJ NOWAK
Let’s recall, on 1 September 2009 on Westerplatte, during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, Władimir Putin was the guest exposed by the government of Donald Tusk the most. The anniversary visit was preceded by an article paying tribute to the guest, which minister Sikorski had published in the ‘Electoral Newspaper’. »
FR. IRENEUSZ SKUBIŚ
We are outraged with the words of the FBI director James Comey who, in his speech on the occasion of the Remembrance Day about Holocaust, stated that crimes towards Jews during the Second World War are allegedly responsibility of the Germans, Poles and the Hungarians. »
AUSCHWITZ, DACHAU AND RAVENSBRUCK
FR. MAREK ŁUCZAK
Before Europe starts celebrating the May anniversary of the war end, on its map one can notice places in which we are going to reminisce not so much soldiers of those times but prisoners. Not long time ago did we celebrate the anniversary of Auschwitz camp liberation, and with the end of April we celebrate liberation of camps in Dachau and Ravensbruck. »