https://www.europesays.com/dk/164950/ Between memory & momentum | Destination Poland #FryderykChopinMuseum #Gdańsk #Gdynia #krakow #KrakowTravel #MuseumOfModernArtWarsaw #PalaceOfCultureAndScience #Poland #PolandTourism #PolandTravel #POLINMuseum #PolishCulture #PolishHistory #Sopot #TatraMountains #TriCityPoland #Warsaw #WarsawOldTown #WarsawRisingMuseum #WarsawTravel #Zakopane
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THE 20 ZLOTYS DOŻYNKI (POLISH HARVEST FESTIVAL) COIN:
To commemorate the Polish Harvest Festival, the Polish 20 Zlotys Dożynki Coin features a design that showcases Wieniec Dożynkowy or harvest wreath & a Dożynk fall harvest festival procession in traditional costume & carrying harvests. It is part of the "Polski Rok Obrzędowy" series, which highlights Polish customs & traditions.
#Zloty #PolishHistory #Dożynki #Polski #RokObrzędowy #HarvestFestival #TraditionalCustoms #Rituals #Poland
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⚔️🌊 THE MIRACLE ON THE VISTULA — WARSAW DEFIES THE RED TIDE
August 17
In 1920, the Battle of Warsaw erupted as Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski launched a daring counteroffensive against the advancing Soviet Red Army. In what became known as the "Miracle on the Vistula," Poland's desperate defense turned into a stunning victory that halted the eastward spread of Bolshevik revolution and saved the young Polish state from annihilation. The battle remains one of the largest of the 20th century, with over a million soldiers engaged and more than 400,000 casualties.
This post is 100% AI generated.
#OnThisDay #History #AIart #GenerativeAI #CinematicRealism #BattleOfWarsaw #PolishHistory
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Ukraine and Poland Need to Reconcile Their Looming Histories
On May 26, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a special operations unit in the Ukrainian military the honorary…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #europeanunion #historicalnarratives #LechWalesa #nationalmemory #Polishhistory #PresidentKarolNawrocki #PresidentVolodymyrZelenskyy #Russianinvasion #ukrainianhistory #Ukrainianmilitary #ukrainiannationalists #WWII
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https://www.europesays.com/people/190184/ Ukraine and Poland Need to Reconcile Their Looming Histories #EuropeanUnion #HistoricalNarratives #KarolNawrocki #LechWalesa #NationalMemory #PolishHistory #PresidentKarolNawrocki #PresidentVolodymyrZelenskyy #RussianInvasion #UkrainianHistory #UkrainianMilitary #UkrainianNationalists #WWII
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Ukraine and Poland Need to Reconcile Their Looming Histories
On May 26, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a special operations unit in the Ukrainian military the honorary…
#Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #EuropeanUnion #historicalnarratives #LechWałęsa #nationalmemory #polishhistory #PresidentKarolNawrocki #PresidentVolodymyrZelenskyy #RussianInvasion #ukrainianhistory #Ukrainianmilitary #Ukrainiannationalists #WWII
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Nyolc évvel ezelőtt voltam Krakkóban.
Gyönyörű város!
Ez is akkor készült. Egy ma kereken nyolc éves kép. :)
#Krakow #Cracow #Poland #Wawel #WawelCastle #WawelHill #RoyalCastle #KrakowOldTown #VisitKrakow #VisitPoland #DiscoverPoland #PolishHistory #EuropeanHistory #HistoricArchitecture #RenaissanceArchitecture #CastleArchitecture #ArchitecturalPhotography #TravelPhotography #UrbanPhotography #Cityscape #HistoricLandmark #CulturalHeritage #EuropeanTravel #TravelEurope #CloudySky #MoodyArchitecture #travel #trip #castle
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A 19th-Century Portrait of Marek Ptasiński, a Polish Peasant Under Serfdom
📰 Original title: Portrait of Marek Ptasiński, a 41-year-old Polish Peasant From the Village of Ptaki, Summer 1856
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Oxfordshire revives memory of ‘Little Poland’ on 80th anniversary
Oxfordshire’s ‘Little Poland’ was brought back to life in a moving 80th anniversary tribute. More than 300 people…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #Britishhistory #Checkendon #GrahamDrucker #LittlePoland #Oxfordshire #Polishhistory #recordedhistory
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Because of my recent “peasant-mania” („Chłopomania” in Polish) obsession, I discovered something called Urzecze some time ago. I came across it while digging into the genealogy of my ancestors. On both sides of my family - my mother’s and my father’s - it turned out that our ancestors were Urzeczanie, and the region where my family has lived “forever” is actually a historical microregion called Urzecze.
Urzecze is a forgotten Warsaw/sub-Warsaw microregion stretching from the area of Mokotów all the way to Góra Kalwaria. Its culture was revived by Dr. Maurycy Stanaszek (Polish anthropologist, historian, and researcher).
When I learned about this region, I contacted Dr. Stanaszek and shared my family tree with him, which confirmed my earlier suspicions. I also gave him the oldest family photographs I managed to find at home.
Suddenly, I realized that some old family house was actually a typical example of Urzecze architecture, or that my grandfather making a living in his youth by weaving wicker baskets and fishing in the Vistula River was also a very typical Urzecze occupation. Some expressions I remembered older people using in my childhood turned out to be part of the Urzecze dialect.
These people were deeply connected to the Vistula River - and back then, the Vistula was basically a highway. They made their living through fishing, river transport, and draining wetlands along the riverbanks, something they had done for centuries. And most of them were actually… immigrants.
They arrived here by sailing down the Vistula at the end of the 17th century from areas that are now Latvia, Estonia, Finland, northern Germany, Western Pomerania, Pomerania, and the Netherlands. They knew how to drain marshlands, so the Polish nobility hired them on contracts. They lived under Olęder law and were free people.
One beautiful thing about Urzecze was how open it was - you only had to settle there to become one of them ❤️
And somehow, all of this was forgotten. Why? It feels as if the generation born after World War II completely cut itself off from this culture.
I honestly feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole 😂 but at the same time, it’s such an amazing adventure. Last weekend, I went to the Urzecze Festival to learn more about the culture. It was a pretty surreal experience, because some of the traditions presented there reminded me of my childhood at my grandparents’ house (they also lived in Urzecze, on the same street as my parents, just a few houses away).
I’m definitely going to keep digging into this history. I still have several Urzecze festivals ahead of me, as well as other events connected more broadly with traditional peasant culture. I’ll definitely come back with more fun facts 😂
I also already have a few ideas for projects connected to all of this. I’m completely obsessed at this point - and I need to make use of it 😂
I’m attaching a photo showing women wearing traditional Urzecze folk costumes.
Like this post please if you found it interesting - I’ll know there’s someone here who wants to read more of this stuff :P
#Urzecze #PolishHistory #Genealogy #FolkCulture #Vistula #Wisla #WarsawHistory #Mazowsze #Poland #HistoriaPolski #KulturaLudowa #Historia #Chlopomania #Roots #FamilyHistory #TravelThroughHistory #Heritage #Ethnography #DiscoverPoland #TraditionalCulture #ForgottenHistory #SlavicCulture #Photography #PolishTraditions #Microhistory #polishculture #peasant #slavic
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For some time now I’ve been obsessed with what we call in Poland “chłopomania” - basically… a fascination with peasants? I’ve gotten really into the history of how peasants used to live and who the nobility were. What shocked me the most is how cruel the nobility was toward peasants compared to Western Europe. In many countries serfdom had already disappeared, while here peasants were still enduring the worst humiliations from the nobility. Historians even call it “dispersed tyranny” - that’s how brutal it was. Back then, only someone of noble origin was considered Polish. Peasants weren’t seen as Poles.
I’ve gone so deep into this that I spend time browsing state archive websites looking through scans. If anyone’s interested, I can share more about what I find xP I’m also planning a photography project about the Polish countryside. Now that I have a driver’s license, it’ll be much easier to actually get started.
#history #polishhistory #chlopomania #peasanthistory #socialhistory #genealogy #poland #ruralhistory #photographyproject #documentaryphotography #storytelling #research #culture #photography
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Heute vor 100 Jahren wurde Andrzej Wajda geboren, einer der bedeutendsten polnischen #Filmemacher. Wir erinnern an eines seiner frühen Meisterwerke:
▶ Angelika Nguyen, Asche oder Diamant sein. Historischer Zwiespalt der #ArmijaKrajowa in dem polnischen #Filmklassiker Asche und Diamant (1958), #WerkstattGeschichte 56/2011, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/tiere
#histodons #Filmgeschichte #AndrzejWajda #Filmhistory #Kino #Cinema #Polen #PolnischeGeschichte #PolishHistory
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1,000-year-old hillfort preserved in the forests of Poland discovered
Researchers discovered “an absolutely unique site on the archaeological map” of southeastern Poland, known as Kaplonosy Kolonia’s hillfort,…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #Aktualności #archaeology #medieval #poland #Polishhistory #polska
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https://www.europesays.com/2815755/ 1,000-year-old hillfort preserved in the forests of Poland discovered #Aktualności #archaeology #medieval #poland #PolishHistory #polska
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1,000-year-old hillfort preserved in the forests of Poland discovered https://www.byteseu.com/1839863/ #Archaeology #medieval #Poland #PolishHistory
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🇬🇧 Stefan Czarniecki Monument, Tykocin (1763).
One of the oldest secular monuments in Poland, founded by Jan Klemens Branicki. A key element of the Baroque market square and a symbol of the Commonwealth military tradition.🇵🇱 Pomnik Stefana Czarnieckiego w Tykocinie (1763).
Jeden z najstarszych świeckich pomników w Polsce, fundacji Jana Klemensa Branickiego.🔗 https://sketchfab.com/models/780f600de4ca4327ad408957d7a439e4
🔗 https://menhirarchaeology.myportfolio.com/
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#OnThisDay, 5 Mar 1992, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz becomes President of the National Bank of Poland. She is the first woman to hold the role.
She goes on to be the first woman to be elected Mayor of Warsaw and is currently a member of the European Parliament.
Thank you to https://mstdn.social/@[email protected]al for suggesting Hanna.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #PolishHistory #Histodons
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Also born on March 4th:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_%C5%81yszczy%C5%84ski
Not only does he sound interesting, so does his reputation amongst 20th century Polish academics.
#History #PolishHistory ##PolishLithuanianCommonwealth #KazimierzŁyszczyński #Atheism #IntellectualHistory
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It was during a lesson on immigration where we were doing family trees and looking up names on the then-new Ellis Island search site to see if anyone we recognized was listed. IIRC, my ancestors were some of the most recent immigrants represented in the class. #polishhistory #history #salty #badhistory
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Once again briefly annoyed at the high school history teacher who, upon learning my Polish ancestors came over in the 1910s, said something along the lines of "Oh, then they missed out on all the troubles" as if WWII was the only messed-up event in Polish history. #polishhistory #history #salty #badhistory
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Heute vor 10 Jahren öffnete in Warschau das #Museum für die #Geschichte der polnischen Juden #POLIN seine Hauptausstellung.
Steffi de Jong hat diese seinerzeit für uns besucht und besprochen:
▶ Museum der Geschichte der polnischen Juden in Warschau POLIN. Dauerausstellung, #WerkstattGeschichte 69/2015, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/antikoloniale-filme/@histodons @historikerinnen @museum @jewishstudies
#histodons #JewishHistory #PolishHistory #Exhibition #Ausstellung
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beautiful sculpture by Polish sculptor and interesting personality Stanislaw Szukalski. biopic on netflix
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Today we remember those who were murdered during the #Holocaust, simply for being themselves.
The symbols shown are those that were worn as badges to signify different groups in concentration camps. Some groups, such as the #LGBT+ community, have reclaimed these.
Light a candle in your window from 4pm today to remember all victims of the Holocaust.
#holocaustmemorialday #lightthedarkness #lgbtq #pow #jewishhistory #education #jehovahswitnesses #polishhistory #blackhistory
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@CarveHerName also, to some extent, #Polishhistory!
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Reading Polish Nobel Prize Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob on a lond ride. An interesting take on a complex period in Eastern European history from the point of view of a anti-Talmud Jewish religious group that convert en masse to Catholicism. Smyrne, Istambul, Lwiw and Warsaw are just of the places where the story takes place. A treat. #polishliterature #polishhistory
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#history #WW2 #amwriting #ww2history #womenshistory #war #lestweforget #books #reading #writing #bookreview #historytv #couragecalls #courage #Conflict #resistance #pilots #testpilots #specialoperations #womenintheresistance #spy #spies #iamwriting #lovebook #historybooks #greatlives #greatwomen #polishhistory #britishhistory #germanhistory #nonfiction #procrastination