Polish Holidays

Read the short note about the Polish tradition called wet Monday based on dousing with water and find out what it means.

Poland celebrates The Constitution of May the 3rd. Check out the first constitution in Europe from May, 1791.

Workers strike in Chicago in 1886 was brutally pacified. Get to know the origin of Labor Day and who is the patron of working people.

Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday of November, is an opportunity to remember ancestors. See some advice from Your Roots in Poland.

1 August 1944 was the Warsaw Uprising. During which Warsaw was destroyed. Let’s check what happened that day.

See short information about 1st April which is Prima Aprilis with jokes, pranks for each other and laughs one’s head off.

8th March is Women’s Day. The whole world together with Poland admire them, so check out what its origin is.

In Poland, 1st March we celebrate Day of Memory of Cursed Soldiers fighting with communism and protecting independence. See who they are.

Last Thursday before Lent is Fat Thursday in Poland and then Poles eat doughnuts. Read a short note about it.

Very important day for human kind and holocaust victims, see some information about International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Poland has a National Independence Day to commemorate the fact that after 123 years of slavery regained independence. Read a short note.