Portal:Poland/Did you know/41


 * ... that two-year-old Ruth Schwarz was rescued from the Sambor Ghetto by Alojzy Plewa, one of many Poles recognized as Righteous Among the Nations (both pictured)?
 * ... that the Majdanek concentration camp trial was the longest Nazi war crimes trial in history, spanning over 30 years?
 * ... that the unsolved shooting death of Henryk Siwiak, a Polish immigrant, is officially the only homicide that occurred in New York on the day of the September 11 attacks?
 * ... that in a Polish study, the silver stretch spider ate an average of 3.7 mosquitoes per day in early June?