Haren, a town located on the River Ems in the northwest of Germany, became a centre of Polish life in Germany after the end of the Second World War. Initially the town was renamed Lwów, but later this...
Das Lager 33/130 in Augustdorf für vorwiegend polnische Displaced Persons wurde unmittelbar nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges im Juni 1945 gegründet.
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...
Gerhard Richter, one of today's most important artists, created an abstract painting entitled Birkenau in 2014. This painting is a remarkable place of remembrance of Poles in Germany.
Magdeburg is known in Poland above all as the place where Józef Piłsudski was interned. The fortress there is a frequent reminder of the imprisonment of the leader of the Polish legions and one of the...
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...
Die Geschichte der Familie Jankowski aus Herne gehört sicherlich zu den „klassischen“ Schicksalen der Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts ins Ruhrgebiet eingewanderten Polen.
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 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.
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.