Institute of National Remembrance

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 pięciokondygnacyjna drewniana hala fabryki sukna Fiedlerów w Opatówku - Muzeum Historii Przemysłu
Brothers Adolf and Edward Fiedler: The Oldest Mechanical Cloth Factory in the Kingdom of Poland
The Fiedler brothers from Saxony built the largest cloth factory in the Congress Kingdom of Poland in Opatówek near Kalisz between 1824 and 1826 – five stories of wooden construction... Read more...
Stara Fabryka w Bielsku-Białej - zabytkowe krosna i maszyny włókiennicze w Śląskim Manchesterze
Silesian Manchester: Karol Bütner and the Guild of Clothiers from 1548
On June 5, 1548, Wenceslaus III Adam, Duke of Cieszyn, approved the statute of the Bielsko weavers' and clothiers' guild and granted the merchandise the mark "B.S. – Bielsko Cloths."... Read more...
Archiwalna rekonstrukcja pracowni jedwabiu w Centralnej Doświadczalnej Stacji Jedwabniczej w Milanówku
Central Experimental Silkworm Station: Stanisław and Henryk Witaczek and Polish Silk
In 1924, siblings Stanisława and Henryk Witaczek founded the Central Experimental Sericulture Station in Milanówek. Henryk learned sericulture in Georgia, where he worked as a laborer in a thread factory,... Read more...
Kolonia robotnicza i fabryka obuwia Bata w Chełmku - modernistyczne miasto z czerwonej cegły
Polish Bata Footwear Company: Red brick and garden city on the Przemsza
The Polish Footwear Company "Bata" SA was registered in Krakow in December 1929; two years later, the municipal pasture in Chełmek was exchanged for Prince Adam Zygmunt Sapieha's forest, and... Read more...
Tradycyjne kopyta szewskie w warsztacie rzemieślniczym w Kalwarii Zebrzydowskiej
Kalwaria Shoemaking Basin and Stanisław Ryłko: With a Suitcase on a Night Train
In 1906, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska had 1,476 inhabitants, including seven shoemakers and seventy-two carpenters. Today, there are over 650 footwear companies operating in the commune alone. The history of the basin:... Read more...
Księży Młyn w Łodzi - monumentalna fabryka bawełny z czerwonej cegły Karola Scheiblera
Karol Scheibler and the Cotton Empire of Księży Młyn: Red brick, blood, and yarn
On October 27, 1853, Karol Scheibler signed a contract with the Łódź city council for the construction of a complete cotton factory within two years. In 1855, a spinning mill... 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...
Zabytkowa fabryka obuwia w Bydgoszczy - dawna fabryka Weynerowskich i Pomorskie Zakłady Przemysłu Skórzanego Kobra
Wiktor Weynerowski and Sons: From a small workshop to the "LEO" S.A. shoe empire and the armored "Cobra"
From the felt shoe workshop of 1876, through Paul Sellner's building on Kościuszki Street and the "LEO" joint-stock company of 1932, to the state-owned "Kobra," which produced 13,000 pairs a... 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...
Zabytkowa Stara Przędzalnia Lnu w Żyrardowie - stolica polskiego włókiennictwa
Żyrardów Linen Mills: A city of linen and sweat. Europe's largest textile manufactory
The factory in Ruda Guzowska started operations on July 24, 1833, and the settlement was named after Filip de Girard. The verified history of Żyrardów Textile Mills: Napoleon's competition in... Read more...
Jan Kielman - legendarna pracownia rzemiosła na Chmielnej w Warszawie
Jan Kielman: Indestructible Stitch. How a Workshop on Chmielna Street Survived Partitions, Bombs, and Communism
Poland's oldest continuously operating shoemaking workshop: Chmielna since 1883, five generations of Kielmans. Verified archive — butt leather, juche leather and vegetable tanning versus chrome, foot outline and last made... Read more...