Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań is a research university in Poznań, Poland.
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, established in 1918, is the third oldest functioning university in Poland. The only private college in Poland with the status of a "university".
Zygmunt Szweykowski was a historian of Polish literature who specialized in 19th-century Polish prose.
Grójec is a town in Poland. Located in the Masovian Voivodeship, about 40 kilometres south of Warsaw. It is the capital of urban-rural gmina Grójec and Grójec County. It has 16,674 inhabitants (2017). Grójec surroundings are considered to be the biggest apple-growing area of Poland. It is said that the region makes up also for the biggest apple orchard of Europe. Statistically, every third apple sold in Poland is grown in Grójec – a unique local microclimate provides for their beautiful red colour.
Agencja Wywiadu or AW is a Polish intelligence agency, tasked with the gathering of public and secret information abroad for the Republic of Poland.
Wiktor Ormicki was a Polish geographer and cartographer, and a university professor. He was of Jewish descent. A specialist in economical geography and demography, he served at various posts in the Jagiellonian University, Wolna Wszechnica, Higher Trade School of Kraków and Lwów University. Arrested by the Germans during World War II in Sonderaktion Krakau, he was murdered in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
Flying University was an underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw, the historic Polish capital, then under the control of the Russian Empire, and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People's Republic of Poland. The purpose of this and similar institutions was to provide Polish youth with an opportunity for an education within the framework of traditional Polish scholarship, when that collided with the ideology of the governing authorities. In the 19th century, such underground institutions were important in the national effort to resist Germanization under Prussian and Russification under Russian occupation. In the communist People's Republic of Poland, the Flying University provided educational opportunities outside government censorship and control of education.
The Poznań University of Economics and Business is one of the business schools in Poland.
Stefania Zahorska, pseudonym Pandora, was a Polish prosaist, art historian.
Hanna Ożogowska was a Polish novelist and poet.
Lucjan Zarzecki (1873–1925) was a Polish pedagogue and mathematician, a co-originator of national education concept. His area of study was general didactics and didactics of mathematics.
Włodzimierz Brus was an economist and party functionary in communist Poland. He emigrated from Poland in 1972, removed from power after the 1968 Polish political crisis. Brus spent the rest of his life in the United Kingdom.
The Ochota Massacre was a wave of German-orchestrated mass murder, looting, arson, torture and rape, which swept through the Warsaw district of Ochota from 4–25 August 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising. The principal perpetrators of these war crimes were the Nazi collaborationist S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A., the so-called "Russian National Liberation Army", commanded by Bronislav Kaminski.
Długie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Izbica Kujawska, within Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. The village is mostly known as birthplace of Justyna Krzyżanowska- mother of Polish pianist, Fredrick Chopin
Edward Szturm de Sztrem was a Polish statistician and demographer. From 1929 till the German invasion of Poland in 1939 he was the director of the Polish Central Statistical Office, succeeding Józef Buzek. In 1937 he became the president of the newly founded Polish Statistical Society. He was a lecturer in the Wolna Wszechnica Polska before the war, and after the war, in the Main School of Planning and Statistics.
Zygmunt Zalcwasser was a Polish mathematician from the Warsaw School of Mathematics in the period between the World Wars collaborating especially in the fields of logic, set theory, general topology and real analysis. Zalcwasser, who worked on the Fourier series, introduced the Zalcwasser rank [Za] measuring the uniform convergence of sequences of continuous functions on the unit interval. Zalcwasser received his Ph.D. at the Warsaw University in 1928. He served as professor at the Wolna Wszechnica Polska in 1933–34 and after the invasion of Poland in 1939 lived in the Warsaw Ghetto. He died in the gas chambers of the Treblinka extermination camp in 1943 during the Holocaust in Poland.
Irena Jurgielewiczowa was a Polish teacher and writer of children's literature and young adult literature. During World War II she was an underground teacher, member of Armia Krajowa, and participant of the Warsaw Uprising. After the war she was a lecturer at the University of Warsaw.
Wszechnica Polska University in Warsaw is a private university located in Warsaw, Poland.
Józef Wierusz-Kowalski was a Polish physicist and diplomat. He discovered the phenomenon of progressive phosphorescence. He served as Rector of the University of Freiburg, and helped to establish the section for physics at the reopened University of Warsaw. After Polish independence was established, he served as the Polish ambassador to the Holy See, the Netherlands, Austria and Turkey.
An LGBT ideology-free zone also referred to as LGBT free zone refers to the certain areas of Poland which have declared themselves unwelcoming of so-called "LGBT ideology". As of April 2020, some 100 municipalities, encompassing about a third of the country, declared themselves "LGBT-free zones".
