IPNtv: Unconquered: Trying Times

(For high school students, teachers, and adults) This short video is a moving account of the Poles’ struggle for independence during its interwar period, 1918–1939. It should be remembered that Poland disappeared from the map in 1795 after Russia, Prussia, and Austria-Hungary divided Poland between them and annexed their respective Polish territories. For the next 123 years, Poland ceased to exist but was re-established in 1918 following the end of World War 1. As the video shows, in the first years of its new beginning as a nation, Poland successfully defeated German and Russian attempts to prevent its newly-established independence. Produced by Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (Polish initials – IPN), it is the prequel to IPN’s earlier video “The Unconqueredâ€.