73rd anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising is celebrated in Poland on 1st of August 2017.
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72nd anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising is celebrated in Poland on 1st of August.
National Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau created a computer application “Remember” which tracks untruthful phrase „Polish death camp” and sends request for correction. Application works in 16 languages already, more are in preparation.
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Polish Government-in-Exile’s relocation to London and the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of its activities, the Polish Embassy in London has initiated a promotional and educational campaign under the title “Republic in Exile / Rzeczpospolita Londyńska”.
British historian prof. Norman Davies tells about his new book “Trail of Hope” devoted to the extraordinary journey made by the Polish Anders Army from Russia to Great Britain.
71st anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising is celebrated in Poland on 1st of August.
To commemorate the Polish contribution to the Battle of Britain, the Polish Embassy in London has launched #BoBPoles, a project devoted to the lives and exploits of Poles who fought in the 1940 campaign. The project envisages events on the ground, in the air and on the internet.
In the spring of 1945, the victory of the Allies in the war against Nazi Germany was not threatened in any way. The only issue that remained to be decided was the date and whose armies would be the first to march into Berlin. The hour in which the act of surrender was signed was responsible for the fact that in Western countries the end of the war is commemorated on 8 May, while in Russia and many former Soviet states, victory over fascism is celebrated one day later.
“This is a symbolic day, a day when after many years an important medieval manuscript returns to a place it comes from. What’s also symbolic is that we can reach to our origins, and that we’ve managed to bring this document back to Plock together,” Minister Grzegorz Schetyna said during the handover ceremony of the Plock Pontifical.