Edward Reid
@ReidEdwardII
Committed to historical accuracy and moral clarity. Advocate for truth, justice, and the preservation of memory. Memento Mori, Veritas Manet.
Long post: 😊 As someone not of Polish descent, I approach Polish history with an objective and committed perspective. My passion for uncovering and sharing these often-overlooked stories comes from a deep respect for the resilience and sacrifices of the Polish people. In my…
This haunting photograph shows a brutal relic from the Auschwitz concentration camp: the whipping horse, a crude wooden apparatus used by German SS guards to torture prisoners. Labeled in Polish, Russian, French, and English, it stands as grim testimony to the international…
During the Second World War, one of the most overlooked crimes committed by Germany was the systematic kidnapping of children from occupied Poland. Under Nazi German racial ideology, tens of thousands of Polish children, many with so-called “Aryan” features were forcibly taken…
It was not merely a famine, nor some accidental misfortune of nature, nor the inevitable consequence of a people overly dependent on a single crop, it was a manmade catastrophe, sharpened by cruelty, prolonged by indifference, and executed through the calculated coldness of…
The Story of Zygmunt-Srul Warszawer: A Life Saved by Many “I, Zygmunt Warszawer, never named the Poles who saved me. I jumped from a train headed to Treblinka—my son was strangled on that train. I went to the Pielaczka family, who hid me for four days, then wandered from village…
„Ja Zygmunt Warszawer nie podaję nikogo z Polaków, którzy pomagali mi przeżyć. Wyskoczyłem z pociągu jadącego do Treblinki na spalenie, w pociągu został uduszony mój dzieciak. Zaszedłem do gospodarzy Pielaczki, przetrzymał mnie 4 dni i potem chodziłem od wioski do wioski:…
What the some of the world would later learn is that it was essentially because of the Poles that the Enigma was broken at all. The Polish Cipher Bureau had been deciphering German Enigma traffic as early as 1932, years before the British ever laid hands on a working machine. The…
On July 25, 1939, a secret meeting took place in the Polish decryption center in Pyry near Warsaw, during which the Polish side handed over to British and French intelligence agents one replica of the German encryption machine Enigma.
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On July 25, 1939, a secret meeting took place in the Polish decryption center in Pyry near Warsaw, during which the Polish side handed over to British and French intelligence agents one replica of the German encryption machine Enigma.
During the deportation of Jews from Chmielnik, Stopnica County, Kielce Voivodeship in the autumn of 1942, Antoni Szczygielski of Szyszczyce and 25-year-old Witold Jedrusik were caught and executed by the Germans for aiding Jews. Their arrest and death were the result of betrayal…
On the night of July 16–17, 1918, the Romanov family, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, their five children, and loyal attendants were murdered in the basement of the Ipatiev House by a Bolshevik execution squad led by Yakov Yurovsky. The act was brutal, chaotic, and…
On this day in 1918, after 467 days in captivity, the entire Romanov family were slaughtered by a Cheka murder squad led by Yakov Yurovsky. Yurovsky then mutilated the bodies with sulfuric acid.
Henryk Sławik was born on July 16, 1894, in the Silesian village of Szeroka, then under Prussian rule. He came from a working-class background and lived through the upheavals of a continent in turmoil. After World War I, he took part in the Silesian Uprisings armed efforts to…
Henryk Sławik, born #OTD in 1894, was a veteran of the Silesian Uprisings, who became hero who saved 5,000 Jews in Hungary during WW2 by issuing false Polish IDs and sheltering children in orphanages. Arrested by the Germans in 1944, he was tortured and murdered in KL Gusen.
Rudolph Rummel’s Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917 is one of the most exhaustive accounts of Communist atrocities committed under the Soviet regime. Drawing on hundreds of sources, Rummel presents a chilling estimate: between 1917 and 1987, the Soviet…
Between 1942 and 1944, the Germans carried out one of the most brutal yet lesser-known operations of their genocidal campaign in occupied Poland: the systematic depopulation and colonization of the Zamość region. Located in southeastern Poland, this fertile area was targeted…
The graveyard is the richest place on earth because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered,…
