Sing the Polish National Anthem
"Whoever we are, wherever we live" - with these words Polish program "Niepodległa" (Independent) invites everyone, from the sea to the Tartas and all over the world, to sing the Polish National Anthem on 11 November 2018 at noon.
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Michniów, one of 817 Polish villages that ceased to exist
In 1943, Michniów was rased to the ground by German police and gendarmerie, the villagers killed, arrested and transferred to KL Auschwitz-Birkenau or other Nazi German concentration camps, including KL Gusen. Today, the village houses the Mausoleum of Polish Rural Martyrology and preserves the memory of 817 Polish villages pacified during World War II.
V4: four countries, four castles
The Visegrad Group is a regional platform for political and people-to-people cooperation that includes Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. It came to be in 1991, at the Visegrad Castle, and it celebrates its 30th birthday today at Kraków’s Wawel Castle!
The Gdańsk Agreement: birth of Solidarity
On August 31, 1980, after two weeks of negotiations, an agreement was signed between the strikers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk and the communist authorities. This ultimately led to the establishment of the Solidarity trade union and set off unstoppable and irreversible change in all of Eastern Europe.
W-hour
Every year, at 5 p.m. on August 1st, to mark the anniversary of the Warsaw Rising, alarm sirens are heard on the streets of Warsaw. The city comes to a halt. In holding a minute of silence, Warsaw residents pay tribute to the fallen insurgents and those who survived.
Warsaw, like a Phoenix
“I have seen many towns destroyed, but nowhere have I been faced with such destruction.” – General Dwight Eisenhower said after his visit in the capital of Poland after the end of Second World War. The city was totally destroyed by Germans in retaliation after the Warsaw Rising. The biggest freedom surge in the history of World War II broke out 75 years ago.