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Karol Edmund Wojtczak was a Polish military officer, murdered by Soviet troops in the Katyn Forest (1940) along with over 22,000 Polish prisoners of war. These victims were army officers, and reservists, including clergy, doctors, teachers and lawyers. They were executed as part of Stalin’s effort to crush the Polish people by killing Poland’s best and brightest leaders.
On the 1st of September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland. For many people this date is known as the beginning of probably the most horrible war in human history. The Polish army wasn't prepared for this invasion and despite its desperate attempts to stop Germans, we lost. The Allied Forces did not intervene. On the 17th of September, the same year, USSR attacked Poland from the east which was, again, ignored.
The Warsaw Uprising in color
The Warsaw Uprising, which broke out on August 1, 1944, was the largest resistance operation in German-occupied Europe during World War II. For 63 days, the Poles fought on their own, receiving only a small amount of support as part of the airdrops by the Allies.
Ethnographic map of Poland, 1918.
After escaping Poland, Anna Leska served as a pilot in the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) for remainder of ww2.
Powstańcy warszawscy przed kapitulacją (1944).
Koloryzacja: Mikołaj Kaczmarek.
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Polish soldier with a dog, c. 1930s
source: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
Colour photos of Warsaw, taken by Henry N. Cobb in 1947.
Cobb went to Europe with a group of American architects as part of the World Studytour education trip. This was a series of tours in which the participants learned about the post-war reconstruction of European cities.
St. John’s Archcathedral.
The crossing of Świętojerska and Nalewki Streets in the Jewish district.
Szpitalna Street, looking towards Napoleon Square.
Szpitalna Street, near Boduen Street.
Kołłątaj Side of the Old Town Square.
Piwna Street, seen from Royal Castle Square.
Boduen Street.
Czesława Kwoka, Auschwitz concentration camp victim, murdered at age of 14 by Germans. One of approximately 230,000 children and young people aged less than eighteen. http://bit.ly/2HQ7a7X
Polish children await physical examinations, the passing of which would allow them to be adopted by German families. Failure led to the death camps. c.1940.
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Istvan Reiner smiling into the camera as he plays with a card and hole punch. Following this photograph, he was gassed along with his grandmother at Auschwitz.
'We will not let the Kremlin manipulate history so easily and spread lies,' pledges Vilnius's top diplomat, as Moscow blames Polish anti-Semitism for war's outbreak
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Poland and Lithuania are working together to defend themselves against a Russian historical offensive that seeks to minimize Soviet responsibility for the outbreak of World War II, their foreign ministers said Thursday.
Linas Linkevicius of Lithuania and Jacek Czaputowicz of Poland described recent Russian statements that put blame on Poland for start of World War II as disinformation that they perceive as a threat to their nations.
“We will not let the Kremlin manipulate history so easily and spread lies,” Linkevicius said after meeting Czaputowicz in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
Poland "must apologise to the whole world" for "creating fertile ground for the Holocaust", said State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
Speaking in the Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, formerly an aide to President Vladimir Putin and secretary-general of the ruling United Russia party, claimed that the Holocaust, including Nazi Germany’s extermination camps, was “facilitated by Polish antisemitism”.
However, Poland today received support from the European Commission and Parliament, where senior figures condemned Russia’s ongoing distortion of history.
Members of Polish Voluntary Legion of Women, defending city of Lwów (Lviv) against Ukrainian troops, 1918
Group of teenagers from Złaków Kościelny, Poland, 1932. Łowicz type of costume.
Photography by Henryk Poddębski, source: szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl
Map showing location of major concentration camps in Poland
Oswiecim, Camp of Death: Underground Report (Polish Labor Group, March 1944)
From one of the first English-language accounts of Auschwitz (the German spelling of “Oswiecim”), originally published in Polish in 1942 as Obóz śmierci. Written before the camp’s use as a site of Jewish extermination accelerated, the report puts its focus on Polish suffering, though it does mention in passing other “camps established in conjunction with the Nazi campaign to liquidate the European Jews” at Belzec, Sobibor, and "Tremblinka” [sic].
