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Corporal Tadeusz Cisek from 1st Battalion 2nd Company, one of the last Polish Arnhem veterans passed away in December.
https://www.kuryerpolski.us/en/Page/View/tadeusz-cisek?fbclid=IwAR2n8DUSdBpCTUB5QLfKPk5Na64Fo25foOcPKiizzTdJTkPNUaZw43DtZes

As a young woman during World War I, Irène Joliot-Curie (left) worked with her mother Maria Skłodowska-Curie (right) to provide mobile X-ray units for wounded soldiers.

Irène later shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband Frédéric Joliot, just as her mother had for Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie.

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, on January 17, 1918, a ski sports champion, model, a Tatra courier, a soldier of the Union of Armed Struggle and Home Army, Helena Marusarzówna was born. 🇵🇱

In the years 1936-1939 she was the best Polish ski competitor. A seven-time Polish champion in alpine competitions (downhill, slalom and combination).

From September 1939, she participated in the Polish resistance, acting as a secret courier from October, carrying mail and leading people along the mountain trail. She was among the Tatra couriers who carried secret documents and took people to Slovakia and further to Hungary.

In March 1940, Helena was captured by the Slovak military police and handed over to the Gestapo. She spent a year on death row. Tortured many times, she did not reveal any secret information or any of her companions, however, the Gestapo found a letter in Hungarian in her luggage and after many months they associated it with the person of Stefania Hanauskówna.

On September 12, 1941, Helena Marusarzówna was shot in Pogórska Wola near Tarnów.

Her brother was Stanisław Marusarz, ski jumper and second lieutenant of the Home Army. He passed away in 1993.

Glory to the Heroes!


via: Nie Zapomnij O Nas, Powstańcach Warszawskich, Wikipedia

Today, 1️⃣0️⃣1️⃣. birthday is celebrated by Major Aleksander Tarnawski - the last living Silent Unseen - Cichociemny, paratrooper of the Home Army 🇵🇱

Cichociemni were elite special-operations paratroopers of the Polish Army in exile, created in Great Britain during World War II to operate in occupied Poland.

All together 2,613 Polish Army soldiers volunteered for training by Polish and British SOE operatives. Only 606 people completed the training, and eventually 316 of them were secretly parachuted into occupied Poland. The first operation "air bridge" took place on 15 February 1941. The heirs of the Cichociemni are JW GROM.

Happy Birthday Mr. Aleksander! 🎂

Thank you for your service for free Poland!
Colour: Mikołaj Kaczmarek - Kolor Historii

https://culture.pl/en/article/12-beautiful-artworks-that-explain-the-polish-calendar-year

12 Beautiful Artworks That Explain the Polish Calendar Year What traditions have Poles enjoyed at different times of the year? Let’s find out by looking at how classic Polish painters depicted them.

A sad day in Polish history.
However, a good number of commentators believe Jaruzelski had little choice and that Martial Law was the lesser of two evils with the threat of Soviet troops on Polish soil as the even more unsavoury alternative 🙁

BBC ON THIS DAY | 13 | 1981: A 'sad Christmas' in Poland Your accounts of life in Poland after General Jaruzelski imposed a military crackdown.

Hello all

Language tip meaning and spelling...dairy or diary? What is the difference?

Feel free to post your answers below.

Especially for all or our Polish students and for anyone who might be interested.

https://www.facebook.com/307SquadronProject/

307 Squadron Project We are a British-Polish organisation established to promote and research the role of the Polish 307 Squadron, known as the ''Lwow Eagle Owls"

To all students at Carlisle College.

A very warm welcome to our page.

Sincerely

Jo and Joe