Das Lager 33/130 in Augustdorf für vorwiegend polnische Displaced Persons wurde unmittelbar nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges im Juni 1945 gegründet.
Motivated and inspired by the film “Schindler’s List”, Roma Ligocka wrote an autobiographical novel of her memories of her childhood in the Kraków Ghetto and in the post-war years.
Andenken an die heilige Mission abgehalten von 27. November bis 9. Dezember 1911 in der Herz Jesu Kircher in Bottrop (in polnischer Sprache) durch die Ordensgemeinschaft der Oblaten der Unbefleckten J...
Since the middle of the 19th century, the so-called "Ruhr Poles" have been taking up industrial activities in the west of Germany, organizing themselves in the initial phase as a national team. Over t...
Kazimierz Odrobny, the activist, teacher, politician and holder of honorary posts; a character whose life and activities in exile were linked to the concerns of Polish refugees in the Federal Republic...
There are many Polish graves in the Perlacher Forst in Munich. Polish victims of justice who were sentenced to death by National Socialist courts and executed with a hatchet in the nearby Stadelheim p...
Pół Żydówka i pół Niemka, urodzona w wielokulturowym Białymstoku: Helena Bohle-Szacki była pierwsza polska powojenna projektantka mody, o której usłyszał świat za żelazną kurtyną, a także ikona polski...
The linguist, Slavist, Polish publicist and professor at the University of Heidelberg and Göttingen Andrzej Vincenz was born on 13 March 1922 in Lemberg.
Die Geschichte der Familie Jankowski aus Herne gehört sicherlich zu den „klassischen“ Schicksalen der Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts ins Ruhrgebiet eingewanderten Polen.
The history of the Tomczak family's emigration to the Ruhr area begins in 1918 in the small village of Orkowo, in the district of Śrem (Province of Poznan). After 100 years in Oberhausen, it leads bac...
Marcel Reich-Ranicki once said about himself: “I am 50% Polish, 50% German and 100% Jewish”. In Germany he has gone down in history as the “Pope of German Literature”: an equally entertaining and erud...
The V2 rocket, Hitler’s miracle weapon, was intended to decide the outcome of the Second World War. It was also thanks to Poles that Hitler’s missile centre was bombed.
After the Second World War Zofia Odrobna decided to work with the children of “displaced persons” and for many of them she was simultaneously a godmother and a mother. She had many interests, especial...