FRM564363: Wroclaw, Poland. Gothic town hall, 14th-15th century. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564383: Warsaw 1974. Polish-Russian relations. Brzeniew's visit to Poland, Edward Gierek and Leonid Brzeniew. Motorcade on Lazienkowska route. On the right a traditional polish folk group called Mazowsze. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564398: Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Jasna Gora Poland, 06.1979. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563580: Cracow, 1979. Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563592: Poland, Edward Gierek and Nicolae Ceausescu (rght) after bear hunting in Carpatha Romania in 1976. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563613: Warsaw, June 1987 - Saint John Cathedral. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Meeting with Nuns. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563677: Warsaw, 1990. Premier Tadeusz Mazowiecki, w lozy rzadowej Sejmu. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563692: Poland, 1970. Boy and woman standing by milk cans at the village dairy. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563699: Grudziadz, late 1920s. Motorcyle race. Judges platform. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563723: 1930, Vehicle carrying soldiers. In background a Renault FT-17 tank. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563735: Krynica Gorska Zdroj, resort town in Southern Poland, Dubbed the pearl of polish health resorts, Lesser Poland Province, Beskids mountains, Hostel on Jaworzyna Hil, common room, 1930sl 1930s archive / Bridgeman Images

FRM563739: Urszula Dudziak (born 22 October 1943) is a well known jazz vocalist who has collaborated with famous artists such as Michal urbaniak (former husband), Gil Evans and Lester Bowie.'Papaya' her 1970's hit single is very popular all over the world especially in South America and Asia. Urszula lives in New York. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563751: Cracow-Lagiewnik, 17.08.2002. Holy mass led by Pope John Paul II held at Sanctuary of Divine Mercy - Dedication of the basilica. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563763: Zebrzydowska Calvary, 19.08.2002. Pope John Paul II's ninth Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563766: Gdansk, 1987. Pope John Paul II's third Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM563775: Nowy Targ airport 1979. Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564776: Kampinos, near Warsaw, Poland, 1976. Social free service. Beautician giving a make-up tutorial. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564788: Ursus, Warsaw, Poland, 1978. Men eating soup in a canteen. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564791: Wroclaw, 1978. Officer School in Wroclaw. Soldiers training in gas masks, fighting a fire. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564812: Slovakia, Bratislava, 14.09.2003. Pope John Paul II's visit to Slovakia, Holy mass in Petrzalka district. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564824: Warsaw, 01.06.07. Graffiti immortalising Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Poland in 1979. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564827: Poland, 1970s. A farmer helps to pull out a tractor from the mud. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564845: Warsaw, Poland, 1976. Free Saturday. People standing in a queue for bread. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564851: Warsaw, 06.1981. First visit to Poland. Czeslaw Milosz (30.06.1911 - 14.08.2004). Nobel prize winner in literature, poet, essayist and translator. Czeslaw was anti-Stalin and his novel 'The captive mind' show cases his beliefs. He was a Slavic language and literature professor at the University of California. (1961-1998). / Bridgeman Images

FRM564854: Warsaw, 06.1981. First visit to Poland. Czeslaw Milosz (30.06.1911 - 14.08.2004). Nobel prize winner in literature, poet, essayist and translator. Czeslaw was anti-Stalin and his novel 'The captive mind' show cases his beliefs. He was a Slavic language and literature professor at the University of California. (1961-1998). / Bridgeman Images

FRM564878: Gdansk, June 1989. Demonstration in protest of the 4th of June elections as well as against findings of the round table. Arch of building in background. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564887: Bialoleka, 08.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. One of the intermentees from Solidarity party Henryk Bak goes under fence and picks up unused cigarettes thrown by the criminal prisoners onto the grass in order to give them back to them. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564905: Zaleze, near Rzeszowa, 31.08.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. Solemn appeal on a walk on the 2nd anniversary of the signing of the Gdansk agrrement in 1980. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564908: Zaleze, near Rzeszowa, 09.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. In middle, Bolko Skowron during a family visit. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564911: Zaleze, near Rzeszowa, 09.09.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. Internmentees share a meal after the ending of a hunger strike in a prison in Zaleze. Lunch in the church chapel prepared by Jozef Ruszar. The hunger strike was aimed at forcing the prison commanders to move 3 hunger strike internmentees (Ryszarda Majdzika, Janusz Szkutnika and Marka Kisza) to a civil hospital where they would not be force-fed. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564920: Szczecin, December 1970. December 1970 protests. Burning KW PZPR Communist Party building. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564935: Bialoleka, 07.1982. Internmentees during martial law period in Poland. Zbigniew Sarata of NSZZ Solidarity (Mazowsze region) stamps envelopes with free internment post stamps. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564947: Gdansk, 1947. Destroyed city. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564950: Wroclaw, 1948. Butchery. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564965: Kalisz, 1950. Lace and fabric factory. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564986: Warsaw, 1946. Photographer. / Bridgeman Images