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PASI EDU is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the Polish American community and American public on Polish and Polish-American history, culture, science, and relevant current events.

There is much about Poland and American Polonia of which we are justifiably proud and must be shared because it constitutes an important part of European and American history and culture. However, our review of information sources available to the public continues to reveal significant material omissions, misrepresentations, and falsifications. These sources include public school curricula and textbooks, media news outlets, popular websites, historical literature, and other public domain content. We address these deficiencies by presenting the facts and following our motto: “Only Truth is Interesting.”

Join with us and discover a wide array of important and compelling facts, many of which are little-known but remain significant because they constitute what is known to be true.

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News and Articles

Polish Students Triumph Again at International Lunar Rover Contest

The competition simulated the conditions of a mission to the Moon. Photo: SpaceSystems via imir.agh.edu.pl

The competition simulated the conditions of a mission to the Moon. Photo: SpaceSystems via imir.agh.edu.pl

A student team from southern Poland has won the Australian Rover Challenge 2025, an international robotics competition simulating a lunar mission.

The annual contest, hosted by the University of Adelaide in Australia, sees student teams from across the globe showcasing rovers they’ve designed and constructed themselves, tackling tough tasks in a simulated Moon setting.

This year's competition tested the ability of machines to perform tasks including navigating after landing and autonomous terrain mapping.

A team from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, southern Poland, faced a tough challenge from the University of Queensland, which held a narrow four-point lead before the final set of tasks.

Professor Jerzy Lis, president of the AGH University, said the win by the Poles was “another important moment in the history of Polish space technology.”

An AGH University team also won the University Rover Challenge in the United States last June.

Meanwhile, last year’s Australian Rover Challenge was won by students from another Polish college, the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, with their Scorpio Infinity machine.

Source: TVP World

She Was Brutally Beaten’: Remains of Four Child Victims of Nazi Camp Found in Poland

The young victims were found by investigators from Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). Photo: X/@PoszukiwaniaIPN

Researchers have unearthed the remains of four children who died at a Nazi concentration camp for minors in the Polish city of Lodz.

The young victims—one girl and three boys—were found by investigators from Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) at St. Wojciech’s Catholic cemetery earlier.

All four had been jailed in a special facility for Polish children aged up to 16 years old, known as Kinder-KZ Litzmannstadt, during the German occupation of the city in World War II.

The IPN has identified the victims as Teresa Jakubowska, Stanisław Kurek, Janos Duka and Leon Marczawa, saying they all died in April 1944.

Teresa, who was just 12, was “brutally beaten” by the director of the camp’s girls section, Sydonia Bayer, researchers said. The teenage boys died as a result of exhaustion and disease.

“The discovered remains have been removed and will undergo anthropological examination and genetic identification,” investigators confirmed.

The IPN—which investigates Poland’s tumultuous 20th-century history—has so far found burial sites for around 77 of the estimated 200 minors who perished at the facility, including 16 at the cemetery, which is located on Kurczaki Street.

Between 2,000 and 3,000 young Poles are believed to have passed through the camp, which was adjacent to the ghetto the Nazis established for the city’s Jewish population until it was emptied during the Holocaust.

Teresa Jakubowska’s tragic end

The fate of Teresa Jakubowska is one of the better-known stories from the children’s camp because it was described in detail during the trial of supervisor Eugenia Pohl in the 1970s.

Witnesses described Teresa as “very thin” and “spindly,” dressed in worn-out clothes and often in trouble for stealing other prisoners’ bread. Following one such occasion in February 1944, camp guards beat her up in front of the other children and poured cold water over her in chilly temperatures, fellow prisoner Zofia Szope said.

“We were standing in a row and we had to watch,” she said. “She was beaten on a stool and when she fainted, water was poured over her. One [girl] had to hold her arms, another her legs.”

Polish children held at the Nazi concentration camp for minors in Łódź. Photo: Archiwum Fotograficzne Stefana Bałuka/Public Domain.

She was taken to the camp infirmary but beaten again later by girls’ camp chief Bayer and Pohl. The German officials threw young Teresa naked into the snow, telling her to lie there, before beating her.

“She was lying down and they beat her with a whip until she fainted,” Emilia Mocek told judges during Pohl’s trial. “Then they ordered two jugs of water to be brought and poured them over Teresa. They left her in the freezing cold.”

Another witness, Jan Woszczyk, said she was “covered in ice crystals” with blood “running from her mouth, nose and ears.”

“Her face was frozen in a grimace of pain,” he said.

The camp was abandoned in early 1945 as German soldiers retreated from the east. Sydonia Bayer was caught and sentenced to death later that year. Pohl lived on in Łódź for decades before eventually receiving a jail sentence in 1974.

Source: TVP World

Volhynia Massacre Exhumations to Start at End of April

The massacre refers to the 1943–44 killing of around 100,000 Polish civilians by Ukrainian nationalist forces. (PAP/Darek Delmanowicz)

Poland and Ukraine will start exhuming the victims of the Volhynia massacre at the end of April in the western Ternopil region of Ukraine, a representative of the Ukrainian Foundation of Volhynian Antiquities has told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

The massacre refers to the 1943–44 killing of around 100,000 Polish civilians by Ukrainian nationalist forces. The event remains a source of tension between Poland and Ukraine.

Puzhnyky, one of many locations where the massacre took place. It is believed the last murders were carried out in the village in 1945.

"The exhumation of the remains of civilians, the locals of the former Puzhnyky village, will begin on April 24," she said, adding the process is expected to last around three weeks.

Historical documents suggest up to 79 people are buried in the village, Kharlamova said on Wednesday.

DNA testing will also be conducted on the remains and Poland’s representatives have already collected samples from family members, she told PAP.

The exhumation process has been at a standstill since 2017 because of a moratorium, which was ultimately lifted in November 2024.

Source: PAP and TVP World