When the war ended, survival was mistaken for resolution
For millions of Polish families, liberation did not mean return. Homes had been seized, farms absorbed, workshops dismantled, furniture burned, land reassigned, records destroyed. What had taken generations to build … Continue reading
Poland Was Not Allowed to Exist
There are nations that survive through power, through armies, through victory and conquest, and then there are nations that survive because ordinary people refuse to stop being themselves when history … Continue reading
Polish victims of war
Poland does not perform victimhood well, and in many ways it refuses to perform it at all. This is often misread from the outside as indifference, defensiveness, or even denial, … Continue reading
What Lives in Us
Polish history is not primarily a story of power, conquest, or domination, but a long record of endurance carried by ordinary people who were forced to preserve their identity when … Continue reading
Poland and the Jewish genocide: Facts That Keep Getting Ignored
This post follows from earlier discussion and is intended to clarify several points with additional historical facts about Polish–Jewish relations during the Second World War. The aim is not provocation, … Continue reading
Israeli coach punches Polish referee at judo tournament.
The Israeli Embassy accuses Poles of anti-Semitism (sic!) because their team was excluded from the International Judo Tournament in Bielsko-Biała. The reason? A physical attack on a referee after a … Continue reading
If someone gave me a shelter during a war …
If someone in Poland had hidden me, if a family had opened their door knowing that discovery meant death not only for themselves, but for their children and their parents, … Continue reading
The Blueprint of Destruction: Zamość and the Eastern Plan
Operation Zamość was one of the most brutal and least known German actions of the war, a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing designed to erase an entire Polish region and … Continue reading
The Stolen Children of Poland: Holding Onto Identity in the Face of Erasure
One of the most heartbreaking aspects of the German occupation of Poland was the systematic kidnapping of Polish children deemed racially “suitable” for Germanization. Through programs like Lebensborn, hundreds of … Continue reading
German propaganda during the Second World War
German propaganda during the Second World War leaned heavily on racial ideology and worked relentlessly to portray Poles as Untermenschen, or sub-humans. In 1940, Hans Frank, the Governor-General of occupied … Continue reading
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