Since winning the World Cup in 2014, Lukas Podolski, who hails from Gliwice in Poland, has risen up to be the undisputed star of German football and a media phenomenon.
The 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Union of Poles in Germany is a good opportunity to remind ourselves of its origins, its work and its current activities.
When the first independent trade union “Solidarność” was founded in the Soviet-influenced Eastern bloc, numerous citizens’ committees rose up in Western Europe, including in Germany.
The woman from Düsseldorf, who has Polish and Indian roots, does not generally shy away from difficult subjects. Indeed, she seems to be magically drawn to them.
In April 1945, a group of SS men murdered 20 Jewish children in a former school building in Hamburg. Before they were killed, the children had been subjected to medical experiments.
Raphael Lemkin was an outstanding lawyer who established the description of genocide as a crime under international law. It is thanks to him that the term “genocide” was introduced for the first time ...
Mitgliedausweis des Bundes der Polen in Deutschland e.V. (Związek Polaków w Niemczech t.z.) von Marianna Forycka, ausgestellt in Bochum am 1. November 1973.
With the audacious intention of surviving the Second World War “in the eye of the storm”, 23-year-old Filip goes underground in the middle of Nazi Germany.
The Jewish Hirschkorn family, which was originally called Herszkorn, came from the south of Russia, from the region around the Black Sea and the Caucasus.
Marcel Reif, iconic German football commentator, was born Marek Nathan Reif to a Polish-Jewish family in Wałbrzych in Poland (Waldenburg, Lower Silesia) in 1949.
The author, who lives in Berlin, is in his early 40s and has already published a series of novels, essays and short texts, receiving a number of awards for them.
In the middle of Wetter an der Ruhr, there lies an enchanted old park. In the park is an old wooden headstone referring to ten people that lost their lives in April 1945 – seven of them Poles.
Gleich ihr erster Film „Ewa chce spać“ (Eva will schlafen) machte die junge Schauspielerin Barbara Kwiatkowska sehr bekannt und ließ ausländische Filmproduzenten aufmerksam auf sie werden.
Migrant:innen haben großes Potenzial – versichert die Beauftragte des Berliner Senats für Integration und Migration. Sie ist die erste Polin, die eine so exponierte Position in der Berliner Verwaltung...
Das politische Interesse, die Neugier und den Willen, etwas aus seinem Leben zu machen, hat der Journalist Jan Karon von seinen aus Kraków und Łódź ausgewanderten Eltern übernommen.