Historic Photos about Poland with Context

Disgrace: 1968



polin.pl/en/march-68

Below: Edmund Neunstein, founder of the famous Polish bookshop and a library at 94 Allenby St. in Tel Aviv. He emigrated to Israel ten years before the anti-semitic campaign of 67-68. His bookshop became a legendary meeting and rallying point for Polish-Jewish post-March '68 emigrants.

Gemany-Poland: 1-0 (1974) - World Cup - exactly 50 years ago

The match went down in history under the name "Match on Water". A powerful cloudburst turned the pitch in Frankfurt am Main into one big puddle. The players played in abnormal conditions, and the stake of the match was to advance to the final of the World Cup. The hosts won after a goal by the "king of the field" aka "criminal" by Gerd Müller.

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Kania, there`s one more thing you should do. Keep the original thread in our memory by providing a link to it here. I will do it for you, just like I do to my "new" threads. :):):)
https://polishforums.com/history/pol-shorpy-photo-88175/

This reminds me scenes from the National Stadium a few years ago. The match was delayed and some bored fans entered the pitch and played chase games with stewards.

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Jewish Generals: 1939



Brigade General Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann, pioneer of Poland's panzer forces, distinguished himself in Polish-Soviet war, commander of KOP in 1939.



Brigade General Bernard Mond, commander of Army Cracow's 6th Infantry Division, defender of korytarz pszczyński.



Brigade General Juliusz Zulauf, defender of Narew line and Warsaw Praga.

120,000 Polish Jews fought in the ranks on Wojsko Polskie in September 1939. Mentioning all of them would be impossible (I will mention one in more detail later). 7000 of them, including 100 officers, were KIA and names like Friedmann-Mieczysławski, Arnsztajn, Berenson, Putzman, Pariserberg, Fisch and Liebich are well known to Polish WW2 historians. Above you see photos of three Jewish September '39 generals.

13% of Polish army officers murdered by Soviets in Katyn Massacre in 1940 were of Jewish origin.

Lieutenant Jedwab: 1939



1st September 1939, dawn, a couple of kilometres from the German border, near Działoszyn. 19th German Infantry Division assaults the positions of 84th Poleski Rifleman Regiment. The commander of a heavy machinegun team is Henryk Jedwab, son of a very rich Jewish family from Kalisz. He knows he cannot afford the slightest weakness or his Polish colleagues will consider him a coward; he calmly waits for German infantrymen to advance close enough when he shouts 'Ognia!' and rain of lead stops the attacking Germans. That was the beginning of a distinguished military career that would see Jedwab receiving Fighter's Cross/Krzyż Walecznych (three times), Croix de Guerre (three times), Monte Cassino Cross and last but not the least Virtuti Militari (Poland's highest military decoration for heroism and courage in the face of the enemy at war).

His entire family was murdered by the nazis during the war. Once he was asked how many Germans he killed; he thought for a moment and said "More than my family had members... way, way more".

@GefreiterKania

Great post!!!

Yes, that`s the year when nationalist communists decided that Polish Jews were a threat to Poland. About 10.000 Polish Jews were forced to emigrate. They received a special document for their travel - one way "passport".
That was a huge loss to Polish culture.