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...
Born into a Polish magnate family in 1499, Jan Łaski, Latin name Johannes à Lasco, anglicised form John à Lasco, was predestined for a distinguished political and theological career. His uncle was the...
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.
The gallery presents an international programme specialising in avant-garde art, critical art and performance. Because of its origins and history it devotes a significant part of its work to promoting...
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.
Ausstellung „Literarische Bilder des Holocaust. ‚Die Passagierin‘ von Zofia Posmysz“, 28.01.2017–06.03.2017, Zentrum für verfolgte Künste im Kunstmuseum Solingen, Kuratorin: Magdalena Mazik (Muzeum Sz...