History
FR. PIOTR BĄCZEK
Organizers of this year’s celebrations of the camp liberation emphasize that today it is necessary to place in the centre those who were saved. The director of the National Museum Auschwitz dr. Piotr Cywiński emphasizes on an official portal that former prisoners did everything what they could in order to help us realize the fact that the biggest tragedies appear relatively easily. »
JAN ŻARYN
In autumn 1944 soviet armies got to the Vistula river, and then, after an unsuccessful landing about 1000 ‘Berlings’ soldiers’ rushing to help uprising Warsaw, stayed on the Praque side of the city till January 1945. »
They overthrew Stalinism during twenty-four hours
Mateusz Wyrwich
‘Today in the early morning hours the Soviet armies started an attack on our capital, wanting to overthrow the legal and democratic government of Hungary. Our armies undertook a fight. »
The Cross of the Polish Seym From Jasna Góra altar of the homeland
Pauline Father Jan Pach OSPPE
The Cross in the Meeting Hall in the Seym of the Polish Republic has been causing opposition among people from the very beginning, who would like to eliminate God from the course of the Polish events and force the majority of Poles to forget that the polish identity is built on the fundament of the Cross and the Gospel of Jesus. »
Józef Szaniawski
Exactly 400 years ago, on 29 October in 1611 in the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Russian Homage took place, which was the greatest triumph in the whole history of Poland. Considering the circumstances of this epochal event. »
Poles murdered for help to Jews
Fr. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik
In Treblinka on 4-5 October there was an academic conference entitled: ‘What do we know about Treblinka? - The state of studies’. It was attended by academic workers from Majdanek, Treblinka, Toruń, Warsaw, Koszalin, Stafford and Oxford. »
Unknown Niepokalanow on the former German land
Fr. Adrian Put
On 24 September, in Gębice village near Gubin, in Zielona Góra and Gorzów dioceses, there was a celebration which symbolically closed the celebrations of Kolbe’s Year in Poland. »
Jozef Szaniawski
During World War II the Soviet NKWD, to the order of Stalin and his government, murdered about 35 hundred of prisoners – officers of the Polish Army in Katyń, Miednoje, Charkow and Kuropaty. Whereas, the same communist genocide took place in summer of 1920, but on a small scales. »
Holy popes and bishops speaking about the great Polish victory on 15 August 1920
Jozef Szaniawski
The Feast of the Polish Army is to commemorate the biggest victory of the Polish forces in their history. On the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is called the Feast of Our Lady of Herbs in the Polish tradition, 15 August 1920. »
The Miracle of the Vistula in the shadow of anti-Katyn
Slawomir Błaut
The Russians have never accepted their defeat of 1920. At first, there was a revenge on the Poles in Katyn and then the anti-Katyn propaganda – calumnies against Poles concerning their alleged murders of the prisoners of war of the Red Army in 1920. »
50 years of priestly ‘Westerplatte’
Fr Ireneusz Skubis
Together with 20 priests from our former Diocese of Czestochowa I am experiencing the 50th anniversary of priesthood, thanking God for the gift of living faith and his abundant graces and asking for his blessing for our future lives and service. »
Falsities and concealments of Gross
Slawomir Blaut
Professor Jerzy Robert Nowak published a new book entitled ‘Falsze i przemilczenia Grossa’ [Falsities and Concealments of Gross]. It is another response to ‘Golden Harvest. »
30 years after the return of ‘Niedziela’
Fr Ireneusz Skubis
This year we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the reactivated ‘Niedziela’ that functioned on the publishing market from 1926 but was suspended in 1953 for long 28 years. The first issue of the new ‘Niedziela’ was published on 7 June 1981. »
Hearts of Gold or a Golden Harvest? Studies on the Wartime Fate of Poles and Jews
Slawomir Blaut
Responding to the scientifically unreliable Jan Tomasz Gross's book 'Golden Harvest. About what happened on the peripheries of the extermination of Jews' published by the Krakow Publishing House 'Znak' »