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Sherman Tank of Polish I Corps fighting in Western Europe during WWII Norden M2WS bombsight Interior of the museum. The Museum of the Second World War (Polish: Muzeum II Wojny Światowej) is a state cultural institution and museum established in 2008 in Gdańsk, Poland, which is devoted to the Second World War. Its exhibits opened in 2017.
The book describes Karski's experiences beginning in 1939, the year of German invasion of Poland.Shortly after the occupation of Poland, Karski joined the Polish resistance, and became a courier, transporting messages from occupied Poland to the Polish government-in-exile, first in France and later in the United Kingdom.
Poland’s Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947 is a 1998 book by sociologist Tadeusz Piotrowski about Poland's history in the interwar period and in World War II, with particular focus on the uneasy relations among various ethnic groups in the Second Polish Republic.
Historians divide Polish American immigration into three big waves, the largest lasting from 1870 to 1914, a second after World War II, and a third after Poland's regime change in 1989. Before those major waves, there was a small but steady trickle of migrants from Poland to the Thirteen Colonies and early United States , mainly comprising ...
Portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817) at the Polish American Museum. The Polish American Museum is located at 16 Belleview Avenue in Port Washington, New York, USA. It was founded on January 20, 1977. It features displays of folk art, costumes, historical artifacts and paintings, as well as bilingual research library with particular ...
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 is a book by American historian Joshua D. Zimmerman, published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press, discussing relations between Poland's Jewish population and the Polish resistance in World War II.
The below works are published bibliographies about Poland during World War II. Okonski, W. (1997). Wartime Poland, 1939-1945: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Books in English. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group. Peszke, M. A. (2006). An Introduction to English-Language Literature on the Polish Armed Forces in World War II.
An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945 is a 1993 book by John Sack, in which Sack states that some Jews in Eastern Europe, Czech Republic, and Poland took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1,000 concentration camps in Poland for German civilians. Sack provides details of the ...