Portal:Poland/Did you know/63


 * ... that the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (synagogue pictured), created only 38 days after the invasion of Poland in World War II, was the first Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe?
 * ... that Alfreda Markowska, a Polska Roma, was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta for saving Jewish and Roma children from death in the Holocaust and the Porajmos during World War II?
 * ... that Frédéric Chopin left his homeland in 1831 and never returned?
 * ... that works of the Polish artist Dorota Nieznalska stirred a religious controversy and charges of blasphemy in Poland?