The first “Sokół” (Falcon) club in Germany was set up at the end of the 1880s to promote the education of Polish citizens by means of sporting disciplines and at the same time to emphasise common nati...
Towards the end of the 19th century during the period when the Polish movement in Berlin grew strongly, it became ever more necessary to have a newspaper which would cater for the Polish citizens who ...
Roman Witold Ingarden, the greatest Polish phenomenologist, can be placed in the ranks of classic philosophers. His Opus Magnum “Controversy on the Existence of the World” can be compared with Aristop...
According to the Berlin tourist guide Tomek, “the Reichstag stands on Polish ground”. This proud remark arouses particular interest in tourists from Poland.
After losing the battle of Maciejowice 1794 the Polish supreme commander Tadeusz Kościuszko is supposed to have spoken these words “Finis Poloniae” (The end of Poland).
Polish voices can be heard in one particular corner of Cologne Cathedral. Here people gather in front of the painted stone table of a mediaeval tomb and a classical wall tomb in the cathedral chapel o...
The famous picture of the "Hambach Festival“ by Hans Mocznay depicts Hambach castle shining against the horizon. In the middle of the picture thousands of people are marching joyfully towards the cast...
For Polish immigrants it must have seemed like a Christmas miracle when the Polish priest Józef Szotowski was appointed to the post of chaplain at the parish of St. Peter in Bochum shortly before Chri...
In a letter dated 24th of December 1537 to Bishop Paul Speratus, Duke Albrecht of Prussia expressed his dissatisfaction with the new archpriest of Lyck in the Duchy of Prussia near the border of the k...
The name “Polish Pharmacy” existed until 1933 when the Nazis changed its name to "Dorothea Town Pharmacy". It was only after the building was redeveloped in 1998 that the words "Polish Pharmacy" and t...
