Poles by Choice. Families of German Origin in 19th and 20th Century Warsaw


09.08.2011 – 02.09.2011
Berlin
Berliner Rathaus

Photographs and documents from Warsaw museums, archives, and family collections, most presented for the first time, depict the history of the community of German origin in Warsaw in the 19th and 20th centuries. Germans were present in Warsaw from the city’s beginnings, and their migration intensified in the 18th century (when the Wettin dynasty sat on the Polish throne)…