1. Annual commemoration of Piłsudski’s counter-offensive against Russia, Wilno, 14 August 1939
1. Annual commemoration of Piłsudski’s counter-offensive against Russia, Wilno, 14 August 1939
2. Troops from the Warsaw garrison after the surrender, 28 September 1939
3. German troops taking down Polish government symbols, Gdynia, September 1939
4. Soviet troops marching through Wilno, September 1939
5. A column of Jews guarded by German soldiers is marched through the streets of Warsaw during the winter of 1940
6. Polish POWs doing reconstruction work in the formerly Polish province of Poznań
7. Sikorski, Zaleski and Raczyński, London, November 1939
8. Polish refugees in Rumania waiting for a bank to open
9. Raczyński, Sikorski, Churchill, Zaleski and Attlee signing the agreement between Poland and the United Kingdom, 1 August 1940
10. Clementine and Winston Churchill and Sikorski in Fife, Scotland inspecting troops of the Polish 1st Rifle Brigade, October 1940
11. Antoni Głowacki (left) with a fellow pilot during the Battle of Britain. Głowacki once shot down five German aircraft in one day. He ultimately settled in New Zealand.
12. Polish Army howitzer training exercise, Scotland, May 1941
13. The footbridge connecting the ‘Small Ghetto’ to the ‘Large Ghetto’ in Warsaw with Chłodna Street, down the middle of the picture, reserved for Aryans
14. Raid on the Warsaw Ghetto – a photograph found on the body of a German soldier killed on the Eastern Front
15. Polish refugees from the Soviet Union in Iran, November 1942
16. General Sikorski and General Anders, Cairo, July 1943
17. Starving Poles on arrival in Iran
18. Orphaned Polish boys on PE parade in Palestine, August 1942
19. The site of the Katyń massacre, a Nazi photograph from 1943
20. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising, April 1943
21. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising, May 1943
22. Tanks of the 1st Polish Armoured Division assembling for Operation Totalize, Normandy, 8 August 1944
23. Troops of the 3rd Carpathian Rifles Division taking up ammunition supplies during the last battle of Monte Cassino
24. Scene at Majdanek after Soviet liberation, July 1944
25. General Berling and members of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, Lublin, July 1944
26. Troops of the Armia Krajowa with captured Germans, 20 August 1944
27. Funeral of an AK soldier, September 1944
28. General Tadeusz ‘Bór’ Komorowski after surrendering to the Germans, 1 October 1944
29. Soldiers of the 1st Polish Armoured Division after liberating Breda, the Netherlands, 30 November 1944
30. Polish and Soviet women slave-workers in Germany after their liberation by the US 9th Army, Jülich, 31 December 1944
31. Polish male prisoners at Dachau after liberation, 1 May 1945
32. Thousands of Polish troops aboard SS Banfora at Tilbury Docks being repatriated, December 1945