Institute of National Remembrance

Ceglany budynek fabryczny przy ulicy Wolczanskiej 243 w Lodzi, dawna siedziba Zakladow Odziezowych Wolczanka
"Wólczanka" and the Polish shirt: bespoke underwear, ready-to-wear shirts, and collar technology
The “Wólczanka” Garment Industry Plants were established in Łódź on October 10, 1948, on the street that gave them their name – Wólczańska 243A. At its peak, the plant produced... Read more...
Budynek dawnych Zakładów Odzieżowych Bytom przy ulicy Wrocławskiej 32/34 w Bytomiu
"Bytom" Garment Factory: from guild tailoring to ready-to-wear
On October 22, 1945, in the ruins of a German sewing factory at Wrocławska 32/34 in Bytom, a garment factory began operations: 110 people, 64 machines. In 1975, it produced... Read more...
Wnetrze przedwojennej warszawskiej pracowni krawieckiej i sklepu blawatnego
Interiors of Pre-War Tailoring Workshops and Textile Shops: Oak cutting tables, Solingen scissors, and spools of thread from Łódź
Bławaty was an old name for noble fabrics, and a "bławaty shop" was a place where they were sold in cuts measured on an oak counter. A report on the... Read more...
Prof. Stefan Banach - geniusz lwowskiej szkoly matematycznej w kawiarni Szkockiej
Stefan Banach and the Scottish Cafe: The Scottish Book, the Lwów School of Mathematics, and the intellectual dandyism of Lwów
A notebook with hard, marbled covers, costing 2.50 zlotys, brought to the Scottish Café at Plac Akademicki 9 in Lviv on July 17, 1935, collected 193 mathematical problems by May... Read more...
Eugeniusz Bodo w eleganckim przedwojennym garniturze z kamizelka
Eugeniusz Bodo and Mieczysław Fogg: Stage stars, tailcoats, tuxedos, and the wardrobe of the Second Polish Republic
On May 18, 1929, five Poles in tailcoats impersonate a Spanish band on the Qui Pro Quo stage – this is how Chór Dana began, and with it, Mieczysław Fogg’s... Read more...
General Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski - szwolezer i arbiter elegancji II RP
Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski: Cavalier, Dandy, and Arbiter of Elegance in the Second Polish Republic
On March 1, 1935, a committee headed by General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski accepted a trial series of wz. 1934 sabers — and this is a truer portrait of the man than... Read more...
Skamandryci przy polpietrzu kawiarni Mala Ziemianska w Warszawie
Skamander in "Mała Ziemiańska": Where Tuwim, Lechoń, and Słonimski Used to Dress
The "Mała Ziemiańska" confectionery at Mazowiecka 12 (1918–1944) had one table on its mezzanine – the "hill" of the Skamander poets. A report about Tuwim, Lechoń, Słonimski, Wierzyński, and Iwaszkiewicz,... Read more...
Monumentalny gmach Domu Mody Bogusław Herse przy ulicy Marszałkowskiej w Warszawie
Bogusław Herse Fashion House: The Paris of the North, Diplomatic Tailcoats and Tailoring Absolutism
The Bogusław Herse Fashion House was founded in 1868 at Senatorska 10 by the three sons of Ernest Wilhelm Herse, descendants of French Huguenots who settled in Greater Poland. In... Read more...
Zabytkowa maszyna do szycia i warsztat krawiecki - Artystyczna Pracownia Krawiecka Józefa Turbasy w Krakowie
Józef Turbasa: "First Tailor of the Republic" and the Secret of Death Row
Józef Turbasa (1921–2010), a Home Army soldier code-named "Brzoza," spent eight months in St. Michael's prison at 3 Senacka Street in Krakow after the war. A death sentence did not... Read more...
Pracownia krawiectwa miarowego w Warszawie w okresie międzywojennym - stół krojczy i mistrzowie igły
The Elite Tailors of the Second Polish Republic: Warsaw's Masters of Measurement and Horsehair Interlinings
Zygmunt Kamiński was never a tailor – he was a graphic designer who drew the emblem of the Republic of Poland, and before the war, a school, not a workshop,... Read more...