After escaping from a conservative Jewish background in the Polish town of Będzin, she led an eventful life shaped by her pursuit of freedom as well as her loyalty to her love and her traditions.
The story of the Polish minority in the former German province of Eastern Prussia, and particularly in the Catholic region of Warmia, is also the story of specific buildings and landmarks.
The Berlin production facility of the “white gold” can be traced back to one of the most important entrepreneurs of his time, the businessman Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky, a descendant of a Polish nobleman...
1796 heiratet Anton Heinrich Radziwill, der in Berlin in enger Verbindung zum preußischen Hof lebt, Luise von Preußen, eine Cousine König Friedrich Wilhelms II.
1828 heiratet die Erbin des größten europäischen Grundbesitzes, Stefania Radziwiłł, den Sohn eines russischen Feldmarschalls, Ludwig Adolf Friedrich aus der deutschen Familie Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berlebu...
Am 7. November 1938 verübte der 17-jährige Herschel Grynszpan in der deutschen Botschaft in Paris ein Attentat und wurde damit zu einer tragischen Figur der Weltgeschichte.
Die schlichte Grabstelle birgt die Geschichte des Lebens, der Erfolge und der Niederlagen eines der größten Bauernaktivisten der Zweiten Polnischen Republik.
Polish workers have played a central role in the history of Bochum as a city, particularly in the period defined by mining and the iron and heavy industries.
Bronisław Huberman (1882-1947), who in his day was the most famous Polish violinist in the world, lived and gave concerts in Germany during the First World War and the 1920s.
On 3 August 1945, in the aftermath of the war that had ended at the beginning of May, the elderly landscape painter Roman Kochanowski, a leading representative of the Polish art scene in Munich
Polnischer Jugendverein in Herne-Horsthausen, 1916-1919, Fotografie (schwarz-weiss), 8,2 x 13 cm, Autor unbekannt, aus den Beständen des Bundes der Polen in Deutschland e. V.