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Did you know
... that the
Battle of Głębokie
(now
Hlybokaye
, Belarus,
pictured in 1900
) during the
Polish–Soviet War
was both a tactical victory and a strategic defeat for the Soviet side?
... that
The Black Book of Polish Jewry
, published in the United States in 1943 during World War II, downplayed the true scale of
the Holocaust
?
... that the
Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion
, formed by the
Soviet Union
in the Second World War, was named after
a Polish woman who fought against Russia
?
... that Polish Jewish communist activist
Eliezer Gruenbaum
wrote a memoir about his experiences as a
kapo
in the
Auschwitz concentration camp
?