Portal:Poland/Did you know/47


 * ... that the P-badge (pictured) for Polish forced laborers was the first official, public badge introduced by Nazi Germany, preceding the Jewish yellow star by over a year?
 * ... that Jakub Kagan, one of the best known Polish-Jewish composers of popular music who formed Kagan's Jazz Band in the interwar Warsaw, died during the Holocaust?
 * ... that Polish Roman Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered about 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp?
 * ... that Ewa Gryziecka`s world record in women's javelin throw lasted 35 minutes?
 * ... that the green-legged partridge and the Polish-bred Green-legged Partridge belong to different species?