Warsaw Confidential
Confidential Files
Stories from Poland that stand on their own. Short, sourced, and usually not what you expected.
Confidential File · No. 1
The university that kept moving
For 123 years Poland was off the map. In Russian-ruled Warsaw, women ran a secret university that changed address to dodge the police. One student became Marie Curie.
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The rebel leader was killed by his own men
In 1672 Poland's Muslim Tatar cavalry went over to the Ottomans. Their leader was killed by his own men, Sobieski took them back, and at Vienna they rode with him.
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