Portal:Poland/Did you know/1


 * ... 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?