Daughters of Poland: The Lewandowska Sisters and the War’s Two Fronts
Photo: Janina Antonina LewandowskaBy Beata Bruggeman-SekowskaThe Katyn Massacre refers to the mass execution of over 20,000 Pol...
April 9 in Georgia: A Day of Tragedy and Triumph
On April 9, 1989, a peaceful pro-independence demonstration in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, ended in tra...
Witold Pilecki and the first ever comprehensive report on Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz atrocities
By Beata Bruggeman-SękowskaOn September 19, 1940 Witold Pilecki, a member of the Secret Polish Army, let himself get caught and arr...
The communist coup in Prague, February 1948
by Patrick van SchieThis month it is exactly 75 years ago that the communists finally seized power in Czechoslovakia (at the time, ...
Commemoration of the victims of the Soviet military aggression in Lithuania
On the 13th of January victims of the Soviet military aggression of 1991 are commemorated.The candle, as symbol of the memory, today is...
Tykocin town with the second oldest secular monument in Poland
Tykocin is a small town in north-eastern Poland with a population of 2,010 inhabitants located on the Narew river. This little town has...
Vilnius: Lithuanian capital city amazes, surprises and enchants
By Beata Bruggeman-SekowskaVilnius, the capital of Lithuania amazes, surprises and enchants. Behind every corner you can find e...
Last doomed propaganda campaign of a dying communist regime
Interview with David Hill and Ilona Karwinska, directors of 'Neon Muzeum' in Warsaw, first and only museum of its kind in Europe about ...