Agata Reul, born in Pomerania, created her own unmistakable brand. But she has not forgotten her Polish roots – you can see them, hear them and even taste them.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
Stanisław Sierakowski is a commendable, interesting personality who has unjustly fallen into oblivion today. He belonged to a renowned Polish aristocratic family and was the first chairman of the Leag...
