One Polish-American’s Fight to include the Genocide of Poles in Virginia’s High-School Curriculum

By Gene Sokolowski | June 22, 2024
Young man studying at a desk with books.

How Virginia’s educational, executive, and legislative authorities and the U.S Department of Education enabled the suppression of historical fact and ignored an embarrassing deception. Part 1 – Asking the Department of Education to Correct Flawed Standards of LearningFalsified and Flawed Standards in Virginia’s 2015 Standards of Learning March-June 2022. Gene Sokolowski’s efforts to correct Virginia’s…

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How Heroic Polish Codebreakers set the Foundations for the Allies to Crack Enigma

By Gene Sokolowski | June 22, 2024
Alan Turing with a binary code background.

(For high school students, teachers, and adults). This 12-minute video shows that the overall success against Enigma, and its contribution to the Allied victory over Germany, was the collaboration and cooperation between Poland, France, and England. However, the heart of this success was the contribution of the Polish code-breaking team of mathematicians Marian Rejewski, Jerzy…

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The Righteous! How Poles Rescued Jews from the Holocaust

By Gene Sokolowski | June 22, 2024
Book cover, "The Righteous", Polish family.

(For high school students, teachers, and adults). In response to anti-Polish bias in Holocaust scholarship, education, and popular culture, Polish journalist Grzegorz Gorny, together with well-known photographer Janusz Rosikon, published this book to explain what it really meant to save Jews in German-occupied Poland. The Righteous! tells the story of Poles rescuing Jews during the…

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