Ann Marie

[Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne @WBH_2016]

11 września 1932 r. Franciszek Żwirko i Stanisław Wigura zginęli tragicznie w katastrofie samolotu w lesie pod Cierlickiem Górnym koło Cieszyna. 13 dni wcześniej zwyciężyli w w Berlinie w Międzynarodowych Zawodach Samolotów Turystycznych Challenge na samolocie RWD-6.

[British Poles @britishpoles]

‘I came, I saw, God won’ (Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit), wrote John III Sobieski to the Pope after the victorious Battle of Vienna. The battle of 1683 was one of the greatest clashes between the Christian and Ottoman armies. The Polish hussars played a key role in smashing the Turkish army. The hussar charge, which numbered around 3,000 horsemen, was considered one of the largest in history.
Sobieski was born on 17 August 1629.

[Rock and Roll Garage @rocknrollgarag1]

As a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, the band of the Coldstream guards performed "Paranoid" at changing of the guard today.

[British Poles @britishpoles]

Jerzy Różycki, a truly remarkable 🇵🇱 Pole, mathematician and cryptologist, was born on 24 July 1909. Together with Marian Rejewski and Henryk Zygalski, they broke the Enigma Code used by the German army (many years before Alan Turing).
It was estimated that Poland's input in breaking the Enigma code helped shorten WW2 by approx. 2 years and saved countless lives.

[Edward Reid @ReidEdwardII]

In a world increasingly uncertain, fragmented, and overwhelmed by shallow distractions, there is something quietly extraordinary about Poland, something the world still needs. It is not just the architecture of Kraków, the beauty of the Tatra Mountains, or the storied legacy of kings and uprisings. It is something deeper - it’s resilience, the kind that does not boast but endures.

Poland is no stranger to hardship. This is a nation that was erased from maps for 123 years and yet never stopped being Polish. A people who fought for freedom in the shadows, through poetry, prayer, and underground resistance, when their voices were silenced. A country that withstood both German terror and Soviet chains and still emerged with soul intact. To face totalitarianism, genocide, betrayal, and occupation, and still walk forward with dignity is not merely survival. It is moral strength.

The Polish people carry something rare in today’s world, a memory that stretches beyond the last news cycle. They know what it means to lose everything and still rebuild, not just cities, but values. They still visit cemeteries. They still light candles. They still remember not only their heroes, but their neighbors and they still believe that history matters, not for politics, but for truth.

I know this not from books, but from life. Nearly two decades ago, I was an educator in Poland and I am still in touch with some of those students today. That alone says something about the kind of bonds this country fosters. I married a strong Polish woman, born under Communism, someone who knows what it means to endure and overcome with grace.

I have walked the streets where battles raged. I have stood in the rooms where resistance fighters were tortured. I have seen the sites where average Poles, shopkeepers, priests, farmers, were murdered in the death camps of Nazi Germany. And yet, from that horror, Poland rose, not with vengeance, but with humility and quiet strength.

This resilience is not bitter. It is warm, steady, and proud. It lives in the grandmother stirring soup from a recipe handed down through generations. In the soldier’s salute at Westerplatte. In the worn hands of the man who rebuilt Warsaw, brick by brick, because no one else would. It lives in the conviction that no matter how dark the night, Poland wakes again, singing hymns, teaching its children, and carrying its dead with honor.

In a world that too often chooses comfort over principle, forgetting over remembering, and division over tradition, Poland remains a defiant exception. It says, we do not forget. We endure. We do not abandon our roots, because they are the reason we still stand.

This is why the world still needs Poland, not just as a country, but as a conscience. Because Poland does not simply remember history. It lives it and in doing so, it quietly teaches the rest of us how to be strong without hate, faithful without fanaticism, and proud without arrogance.

[British Poles @britishpoles]

We are saddened to announce the passing of Bolek Ostrowski at the age of 105. He was the last living paratrooper of General Stanisław Sosabowski’s 1st Independent Parachute Brigade and a veteran of the 1944 Battle of Arnhem.
Rest in peace [*]

[British Poles @britishpoles]

Have you heard Artur Rubinstein playing Chopin at the @RoyalAlbertHall in London in 1967? Rubinstein was a Polish artist and a patriot, widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. He performed in public for eight decades.
Rubinstein was born #OTD in 1887.

[British Poles @britishpoles]

#OTD in 1945, Warsaw was overtaken by Stalin’s forces.
By this point, 84% of the “Paris of the North" lay in ruins. The Soviets stood on the other bank of the Vistula, first watching as the city bled out during the Warsaw Uprising, and then observing as the Germans freely demolished the city.
Poland, “liberated” by the Soviets, had to wait till 1989 to become a sovereign country.

[British Poles @britishpoles]

Yesterday, Dutch schoolchildren laid flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers at the Arnhem Ooesterbeek War Cemetery. 73 🇵🇱 soldiers from the legendary 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade of Gen. Sosabowski are buried there. RIP [*]
#MarketGarden

[British Poles @britishpoles]

#OTD in 1939, the German Army invaded Poland to begin WW2, the bloodiest and most costly war in terms of human life. The country that suffered the most, in proportion to its population, was Poland. By the summer of 1945, some six million Polish citizens, equivalent to 17,1% of the pre-war population, had been killed.
This is only based on citizenship, not nationality, religion or race.

[Polish History 🇵🇱 @PolishHistory_]

#WarsawUprising80 🇵🇱 | She was only 24 years old. On August 28 in 1944, Ewa Faryaszewska, Corporal of the Home Army, photographer, Warsaw Insurgent, was killed.

During the Uprising, she was active in the department responsible for saving national cultural monuments.

[Ann Marie @a_serafin]

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[British Poles @britishpoles]

🇬🇧 Feliks Topolski was a famous Polish painter and illustrator who became very well-known in l the UK. He was celebrated for painting portraits of important people like Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw.
🇵🇱 Feliks Topolski, był wybitnym polskim malarzem i rysownikiem.

[British Poles @britishpoles]

🇬🇧 Today is the 80th anniversary of the capture of Monte Cassino by the 2nd Polish Corps. The battle has become a symbol of heroism and the Polish struggle for freedom.
🇵🇱 Dziś 80. rocznica Bitwy o Monte Cassino! Zwycięska walka, jest symbolem odwagi i patriotyzmu Polaków.
#ww2

[Europe of the Jagiellonians @EJagiellonians]

On May 3, 1791, in Warsaw, Poles and Lithuanians passed for Rzeczpospolita the first modern Constitution in the history of Europe.
🇵🇱👑⬜️🟥⬜️📜🇱🇹🛡️🇺🇦

[Ann Marie @a_serafin]

@radio_357 Tego roku mam przyjemność słuchać Polskiego Topu Radia 357 z Londynu. Pozdrowienia dla całej ekipy radia 357!! 🥰

[British Poles @britishpoles]

The oil industry was born in Poland!
Ignacy Łukasiewicz, a Polish pharmacist, engineer and inventor, was the first scientist in the world to exploit the benefits of crude oil on an industrial scale. In 1853, the first kerosene lamp lit up in Lviv thanks to him.
He is also remembered as an important political activist who supported the idea of restoring Polish sovereignty and independence in the 19th century.
Łukasiewicz died #OTD in 1882.
Read more: https://t.co/zT2ArRliTv

[British Poles @britishpoles]

The victorious Greater Poland Uprising (Powstanie Wielkopolskie) against German rule began #OTD in 1918. It was sparked by Ignacy Paderewski, who declared in Poznań: "After years of suppression, Poland is rising again! Long live Polish accord and unity! A free and united Poland, with access to the sea, will live forever!'
The Uprising was crucial for Poland's freedom, reclaiming the cradle of the state, Wielkopolska, back into Polish hands.
Read more: https://t.co/14GCRc5zoN

[Institute of National Remembrance @ipngovpl_eng]

Christmas card with the drawing of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko murdered by the communists on 19 October 1984 and one of his quotes.

“Let us pray that we will be free from fear and intimidation, but most of all from the lust for vengeance and violence”.