After the split between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, Czechoslovak communist authorities under Soviet pressure started persecutions against alleged Yugoslavian agents, resulting in multiple arrests and fabricated political trials. Some of them ended with death sentences. The witch hunt was interrupted in 1955 after the normalization of relations between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.

The aim of the article was to present various aid and political activities of Polish di‑ plomacy for the Warsaw insurgents in the first month of fighting against the German occupier, in August 1944, based on telegrams of the Polish Legation in Bern, Switzerland. The topic was de‑ veloped based on encrypted telegrams, including secret ones exchanged between the Polish Lega‑ tion in Bern, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in London and other foreign missions. Polish diplomats provided all possible assistance to the Warsaw insurgents in the first month of their fight against the German occupier, as well as to the entire society in Warsaw, in various ways. If it were not for the combined forces of Polish diplomacy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the government and its agencies, there might have been more victims among the participants and witnesses of the Warsaw Uprising.

The subject of the paper is the religious Islamic revival in Soviet Kazakhstan at the end of World War II and just after the war, understood as the limited return of religious practices to the public space marked by an effort to officially register religious communities. Two types of such revival could be observed in Kazakhstan: one on the wave of patriotic intensification of the “Great Patriotic War” the impetus for the other was the tragedy of deportation and the need to adapt to new conditions. The first type was characterized by adaptation with the Soviet system and the in-termingling of religious elements to Soviet war mythology. The second type, on the other hand, meant long years of functioning in a religious underground unrecognized by official Soviet Islamic structures.

The work presents a document regulating fire protection (fire prevention and fire suppression) in the 17th century. It is the first presentation to contemporary readers. It discusses provisions concerning fire prevention, organization of fire extinguishing, equipping the city with fire tools, fire water supply and the actions of the city council after a fire.

The Jewish minority in the Bialystok province, which numbered 200,000 before the outbreak of World War II, had shrunk to about a thousand people living in hiding as a result of the genocide by 1944. The defeat of the Germans by the Red Army meant real liberation for them, and they readily accepted the new political reality. The memoirs of survivors reveal the experience of coming out of hiding, confronting the effects of the war, searching for family and trying to return to normalcy. This involved experiencing conflicting emotions – joy and despair, disappointment and hope, but in 1944 Jews as a collective showed faith in the possibility of rebuilding their lives on the spot. Soon, however, bitterness and fear began to dominate, prompting migration to other parts of Poland and abroad.

This article is devoted to the participation of the French Land Army, more precisely the 1st French Army “Rhine and Danube” and the 2nd Armored Division, in the German cam-paign in the spring of 1945. It outlines the reasons and actions that led to this participation, as well as the course of the fighting itself, which contributed to giving France an occupation zone in Germany and Austria.

The reviewed work by the Slovak author concerns the dialectal languages of the Polish-Czech‑Slovak border region of Upper Kysuce, more commonly known in Poland as the Čadca Land. The work is the result of multi‑year field research, which, according to the author, confirms the earlier findings of Slovak dialectologists that those dialects have historical Polish sources, but cur-rently belong to the Slovak language. Polish dialectologists do not agree with this interpretation, and one may wonder whether their lack of reaction to the discussed work is coincidental. Therefore, this publication may also be of interest to historians, because it fits into the long‑standing Polish‑Slovak, often emotional, discourse on the history and present of the borderland. The author of the review conducts his considerations from this angle.