FRM564273: 1930, Young women preparing for a stage perfomance. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564297: Warsaw, 05.07.1981. Municipal and transport services demonstration. A double cordon of military officers and strikers. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564301: Bankiet po chrzcinach Brygidy Walesy,corki Lecha i Danuty na terenie plebanii ks.Henryka Jankowskiego.Przy stole Tadeusz Mazowiecki i ks.Henryk Jankowski Gdansk 28 luty 1986 Jerzy Kosnik / Bridgeman Images

FRM564304: Jerzy Skolimowski, Anouk Aimee, Michael Lyndon, Michael York Festiwal Filmowy Cannes 1984 / Bridgeman Images

FRM564325: Gdansk, 29.04.1989. Lech Walesa photo session with Solidarnosc citizen's committee candidates for law ministers, senate and parliamentary elections in June 1989. Photographed from left: Andrzej Wajda, Lech Walesa. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564341: Szczecin 1987. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland, after mass. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564369: Cracow, Poland. Altar piece of Veit Stoss in St Mary's Basilica. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564388: Gniezno, Central-Western Poland, Cathedral, Basilica, historic first capital of Poland, Greater Poland province, the cathedral known for its twelfth-century (circa 1175), two-winged bronze doors decorated with scenes of martyrdom of St. Wojciech. here becomes a bishop and prays 2008 / Bridgeman Images

FRM564391: Witold Gombrowicz, writer. / Bridgeman Images

TRK559673: Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family by Antoni Gaudi. Detail. Spain. / Bridgeman Images

TRK561757: Temple of Ramses III. Relief depicting wrestling. Egypt. / Bridgeman Images

TRK561767: Temple of Ramses III. Prisonera of war. Egypt.. / Bridgeman Images

TRK561776: Temple of Ramses III. Sacred solar boat procession. Relief. Egypt. / Bridgeman Images

TRK562387: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) / Bridgeman Images

TRK563095: Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial. United States. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563486: Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Poland in 1979. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563498: Warsaw, Okecie airport 1983. Pope John Paul II's second Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563510: Katowice, 1983. Pope John Paul II' visit to Katowice. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563516: Warsaw 09.11.1989 r Wizyta Kanclerza Niemiec Helmuta Kohla. Premier Tadeusz Mazowiecki URM Kohl Mazowiecki Niemcy / Bridgeman Images

FRM563525: Lech Walesa, former president of Poland. 1994, Otwock by Warsaw, interview for 'Der Spiegel'. photo. Krzysztof Wojcik / Bridgeman Images

FRM563544: Warsaw, Ursus 07.11.1988. Infront of the memorial monument of 1976. Zbigniew Bujak is speaking. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564874: Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, 03.1975. The building of the Lublin Coal Basin ( Lubelskie Zaglebie Weglowe). A coal miner and his family near bunkhouses in which they live. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564898: Zaleze, near Rzeszowa, 09.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. Auxillary Bishop of Tarnow Wladyslaw Bobowskiego holds mass for internmentees. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564916: 04.06.1989. Photo of Jan Jozef Lipski with Lech Walesa to be used on campaign banner for Parliamentary elections. Solidarity banner in background. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564928: Szczecin, December 1970. December 1970 protests. Crowd of striking shipyard wokers at KW PZPR Communist Party building in szczecin during the December revolts on the coast. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564937: Warsaw, 1948. Florist on Polna street. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564949: Jelenia Gora, 1950. Market. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564961: Olsztyn, 1940s. Soldiers. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565012: Warsaw, 1946. Voting campaign vehicle. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565042: Warsaw, Track and Field Sport event at 10th Anniversary Stadium. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565045: Warsaw, 1940s. East-West Route. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565057: Cracow, Sukiennice, 1946. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565063: Warsaw, 1946. Sachs motorcyle. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565081: Warsaw, 07.1949. Reconstruction of Zygmunt column. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565105: Warsaw, 17.06.1983. Pope John Paul II's second Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565114: People's Republic of Poland - 04.08.1981 Warsaw, Poland - view from hotel Forum in downtown on Warsaw. People protest on the streets due to rare access to food and other goods. / Bridgeman Images