The Polish Underground in World War II, both civil and military arms.
Polish Army officer Captain Witold Pilecki volunteered for an almost certainly suicidal undercover mission for the Polish Underground: get himself arrested by the Germans and…
80 years ago today, on August 1, 1944, the Warsaw Uprising began. “At exactly five o’clock, as planned, a wave of explosions and bursts of…
Today is the 80th anniversary of a coup by Polish Underground Intelligence and British Special Operations Executive (SOE). On July 25, 1944, a Dakota transport…
Code name Operation Barbarossa: on June 22, 1941, millions of German soldiers invade the Soviet Union, as Hitler turns on his erstwhile ally Stalin. The…
A new book, just out in January, tells the amazing true story of a brilliant Polish-Jewish woman mathematician who remade herself into a Polish Countess…
On February 1, 1944, the AK (Armia Krajowa, or Home Army), which was the military arm of the Polish Underground, mounted a successful operation to…
Before World War II, Helena Marusarzówna was the leading Polish women’s ski champion. Born January 17, 1918 in Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains of southern…
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