Portal:Poland/Did you know/12


 * ... that Władysław Szpilman, whose life inspired the film The Pianist, was the most famous of the Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw hiding in the ruins of the city (pictured) after its planned destruction by the Nazi Germans?
 * ... that ORP Huragan and ORP Orkan, the first two destroyers scheduled to be constructed by domestic shipyards for the Polish Navy, were never completed due to the German invasion of Poland?
 * ... that Rzeczpospolita Polska, the official magazine of the Polish Underground State, published 80 issues in the dangerous conditions of occupied Poland?
 * ... that as political prisoners were released due to the fall of communism in Poland, regular prisoners rioted, demanding better conditions and an amnesty?