Zduńska Wola (rural) commune coat of arms was adopted in 2001. It was de-signed by Andrzej Dabrowski, a designer connected with the Polish Heraldry Cen-tre. The emblem includes reference to the controversial mid-19th century ...

The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation organized by the Polish resistance Home Army. It was planned for 1 September 1944. The start of the uprising in Warsaw spurred social resistance against the Nazi ...

Polish Youth Association in Szadek was set up in 1919 at the initiative of Jan Anglik. It was then reorganized in the early 1920s by Father Edward Dyja and Dean Antoni Orzechowski. Afterwards it was successively run by ...

The presented list of the local diets (sejmiki) was based on the analysis of three sources, the city court books of Sieradz, the Pawiński Files Teki Pawińskiego and Pstrokoński Files Teki Pstrokońskiego. In the case of ...

In XV and XVI centuries Szadek was one of important towns of the eastern part of Greater Poland and a major centre of wool cloth production of the country, second only to Brzeziny in the Sieradz and Łęczyca district. Such ...

This paper presents the results of research conducted on the book Tikun lel Szawuot we-Hoszana raba, which Was printed in 1844 in Warszawa, and today belongs to the collection of the Museum of the History of Zduńska Wola. ...