A day in history: Murder in Kremeneć (Krzemieniec)
On the days of 28-30 July 1941, German Nazis murdered 30 representatives of the Polish intelligentsia. The crime occurred in the town of Krzemieniec occupied by the Wehrmacht in Polish … Continue reading
Polish codebreakers ‘cracked Enigma before Alan Turing’
There is this constant discrediting of Poles on social media and their very significant contribution to deciphering the German Enigma Code. The denials take even aggressive forms of verbal abuse … Continue reading
The “Other” Katyń – How Nazi Germany Slaughtered Thousands, Including its Own, in the Forests of Northern Poland
Nazi crimes in Polish Pomerania Everyone knows that Soviet Russia was responsible for the murder of thousands of Polish officers in the Katyń forests in the spring of 1940 – … Continue reading
The 11 July 1943 Massacre in Wołyń
The 11 July, 1943, is regarded as the bloodiest day of the massacres, with many reports of UPA units marching from village to village, killing Polish civilians. The massacres took … Continue reading
Axis Rule in Occupied Europe
In recent years the word “genocide” has most often been used to refer to the destruction of groups within a single country (“domestic genocide”). In Axis Rule, however, the word … Continue reading
Could the ukrainian neo-nazis be, in fact, the descendants of German settlers?
Dozens of smaller and larger allied troops were created in Ukraine during WW2 as part of the Waffen-SS, composed of representatives of almost all the nations in Europe. The most … Continue reading
Ludwik Hirszfeld: The Story of One Life
The Wide-Ranging Experiences of an Assimilated and Catholic Polish Jew and Intellectual Book review by Jan Peczkis Ludwik Hirszfeld (Hirschfeld), who came from an assimilated Jewish family, converted to Catholicism … Continue reading
In The Shadow Of The Reich
Niklas Frank on Hans Frank and the Planned Extermination of the Poles October 24, 2006 Jan Peczkis book review Although Niklas was born in 1939, the same … Continue reading

