Wisla
Historia Polski~Polish History

National Memory

Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski

 

 The national memory stored in Poland does not include arrivals of forefathers of Poles from some faraway lands because apparently the national identity of Poles was formed in the basin of the Vistula River, in the great central European lowlands in the vicinity of the steppes of Ukraine and of Russia where the original Proto Indo-European language was developed and already used some 5500 years ago. […]

Recruting
Historia Polski~Polish History

TRIBUTE TO PRIVATE MAX CIEMINSKI

By Edward Pinkowski

          When David Laskin, a noted Seattle author, planned to write a book on foreign-born soldiers who defended the United States in World War I, he appealed to readers of Polish newspapers to send him stories of their war heroes.Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and Maximilian Cieminski, an iron ore shoveler out of Bessemer, Michigan.

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