Publicists comparing the three great Polish uprisings of 1794, 1830 and 1863 usually conclude that none had a chance of success, however, compared to the previous ones, the January Uprising was ...

However, their fates differed – and so did the influence the uprising would have on their future work. It is difficult to measure the influence of the year 1863 on Polish art. The January Uprising was ...

Both had been nurtured on the Polish Romantic poets - and Słowacki in particular. For both of them the failure of the 1863 January Uprising was a traumatic experience and both of them suffered exile ...

reading a few lines from a poem — "Counterattack" — by a Polish Jew who had been imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a monthlong act of resistance against German SS ...