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‘Kids tell their parents that they love the activities we offer. For us, this is the best proof that such events are worth organising’, Family News Service was told by Deputy Director of the Study Centre for the Polish Community and Poles Abroad of the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) Dr Wojciech Wciseł. In the […]
2023 marks the 160th anniversary of the January Uprising. Despite the passage of years, the echoes of this uprising are still present in public debate. An important, albeit challenging, question ‘to fight (for one’s country’s freedom) or not to fight?’ is still being asked in Central Europe. To understand the meaning and significance of the […]
Poles have always refused to their fate being decided by others. The nineteenth-century January Uprising – a heroic guerrilla war against the Russian occupier – fits in this attitude. On Thursday evening, August 4, 1864, the churches in Warsaw’s Old Town were bursting at the seams. It wasn’t a holiday, and the heedful tsarist police […]
“[…] there are no more occupiers. We’re our own masters and hosts,” rejoiced Warsaw politician and columnist Ignacy Baliński in November 1918. But Poland’s newly regained freedom still had to be defended against Russia – just as Ukraine does today. “Life goes on with astonishing haste. […] Something is happening every hour,” noted Maria Dąbrowska […]