The linguist, Slavist, Polish publicist and professor at the University of Heidelberg and Göttingen Andrzej Vincenz was born on 13 March 1922 in Lemberg.
Emilia Smechowski's book "Wir Strebermigranten" is less a family story than a description of the collective attitude of Polish migrants in the final phase of communism.
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 aim was to avoid controversial topics and the dissemination of prejudices and propaganda about Poland and Germany. The contents of history and geography textbooks in the past often reflected the s...
The so-called "Polenmarkt" (Polish market) in West Berlin was visited daily by up to 40,000 Poles in 1989 and 1990. This provisional arrangement south of Potsdamer Platz quickly developed into the cit...
The archive of the Union of Poles, Zgoda (or "Harmony”), was handed over in 2015 to “Porta Polonica” and then made available to the general public in the Archive for Social Movements (AfsB) in Bochum.
The Polish Social Council has existed in Berlin since 1982. At that time it was founded to help Poles who came to Germany under martial law to find their way around in their new situation.
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...
Maria Anna Potocka: Zofia Posmysz – szrajberka [Die Schreiberin]. Ausschnitte aus dem Buch unter demselben Titel, das Ende 2017 im Verlag des MOCAKs (Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Krakau) erscheint.