Regional history
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Category: Exhibitions, Regional history, Holocaust, News
The Museum of Silesian Jews is to be created in Gliwice
09 December 2013
In a former Jewish funeral home in Gliwice at 14 Poniatowska Street, the Museum of Gliwice will create a new branch dedicated to the history of Polish Jews in the region. The general concept of the exhibitions is complete, and renovation of the building interiors begins soon.
The neo-Gothic...
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Category: Exhibitions, Regional history, News
Virtual Museums of Małopolska have started
14 October 2013
On 25 September 2013 at the Polish Aviation Museum the Virtual Museum of Małopolska (WMM) website was opened.
At the new website (muzea.malopolska.pl), more than 700 digitalized items are available from 35 museums, for which up until now museum showcases and warehouses have been their natural...
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Category: New publications, XXw, Regional history, Editorial note, News, Social history
Varsovians, but not from this realm. Foreign inhabitants of the capital 1945-1989
22 September 2013
Varsovians, but not from this realm. Foreign Inhabitants of the Capital 1945-1989, edited by Jerzy Kochanowski, is a passionate, colorfully racy story about Varsovians from different parts of the world - Finland, Hungary, Serbia, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Tanzania, Japan, Mexico - who arrived in Poland...
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Category: Exhibitions, Regional history, News, Middle Ages, 16th century
Interactive Museum of the State of the Teutonic Order open!
31 August 2013
The museum is located in the baroque town hall in Działdowo, near the city of Olsztyn in northeast Poland. With some 800 square meters of exhibition space, the Interactive Museum of the State of the Teutonic Order features audiovisual...
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Category: XXw, Regional history, Discussion, sources, News, Open projects - aplications
"Europeana 1989 - We Made History” - a variety of memories from the 1980s
29 August 2013
June 2013 marked the launch of the international Europeana 1989 project, with Poles invited to publish with the online forum their memories of momentous changes at the end of 1980s.
Europeana 1989 is an initiative launched by Europeana, a library, museum and digital archive. As part of the...
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Category: New publications, XXw, Regional history, Reviews, sources, News
Sonderaktion Krakau. Memoirs from the action against university professors in Kraków
24 March 2013
The book „Sonderaktion Krakau. Memoirs from the action against university professors in Kraków” published by Wydawnictwo Oskar presents so far unknown account by Zygmunt Starachowicz, a student arrested together with the acedemics in Automn of 1939.
Much has been written so far about...
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Category: New publications, XXw, Regional history, Reviews, Holocaust, News
Golden Democracy
24 February 2013
Golden Democracy by Janusz Ekes is an excellent combination of solid historical knowledge and reflection in the field of political studies. The work, reissued by Osrodek Mysli Politycznej, is an original and still relevant look at the history of the First Republic of Poland.
In Polish...
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Category: XXw, Regional history, Reviews, New publications
Hureczko. The history of the airport of the Przemysl fortress
14 December 2011
Written with a passion history of Polish aviation told from the perspective of a small airport Hureczko.
Author: Przemyslaw Chorążkiewicz, Dariusz Karnas
Title: Hureczko. The history of the airport of the Przemysl fortress
Polish Title: Hureczko. Historia lotniska Twierdzy...
