Independence Day
On November 11, 1918, representatives of the German government signed an agreement marking the end of the First World War in Compiĕgne, northeast of Paris. The Habsburg empire had already fallen, and Russia was in the throes of revolution. For Poles, this was a chance to regain the political state that had been lost. Seeing […]
Conversation with a philosopher – Dr. Richard Mordarski
My guest is Dr. Richard Mordarski, Professor of Philosophy from Casimir the Great University in Bydgosc, Poland and a member of the editorial staff of FORUM.
Professor Maciuszko and General Kościuszko
September 28, 2009 marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet Friendship and Bounty Treaty also known as the second Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. On that day David Barnett presented an extensive interview with Prof. Jerzy Maciuszko in a radio program entitled ‘Around Noon’ on WCPN 90.3 FM. As a soldier of the 50th Infantry Brigade of the […]
A Child’s View of the Warsaw Uprising
As part of the European Union program, „Europe for Citizens”, the Museum of the City of Warsaw has published an anthology of writings in Polish, English, and German. Below is an abbreviated version of the story of an eleven-year-old girl. Our family was intact at the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising (my parents must have […]
We’re Living Longer!
We’re living longer thanks to medical science as it has been developing over the millennium. In ancient times, mankind was helpless in the face of illness and injury, especially in the case of epidemics. The Plague or Black Death of 14th Century Europe wiped out one third of the population, while Spanish influenza in 1918 […]