Written by: Polish Roots Project (Editorial Team)
Posted on: May 8, 2026What It Means to Reclaim Your Polish Heritage
Category: Stories & Community
Something shifts when you find the record. It might be a baptism entry in a priest’s handwriting, or a ship manifest with your great-grandmother’s name in a column headed “last place of residence,” or a photograph in a yizkor book of a street that no…
Written by: Polish Roots Project (Editorial Team)
Posted on: May 8, 2026The Story of the Polish Diaspora: Why Millions Left Poland
Category: Stories & Community
Roughly 20 million people around the world identify as Polish by descent. The great-grandchildren of emigrants who left a century ago. Survivors of WWII who never went home. Children of Solidarity activists who fled martial law in the 1980s. And a new generation of economic…