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

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

FRM565004: Warsaw, 1948. Old Town. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565010: Warsaw, 1948. Academy of Fine Arts. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565046: Warsaw, 1940s. East-West Route. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565079: Warsaw, 1947. Flood, Poniatowski bridge. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565085: Warsaw, 1955. Jasna street, Bank of Eagles project by Jan Heuricha, young project manager from Otto. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565100: Warsaw March 1982. Krakowskie Przedmiescie street. Pictured: Car being pulled over for control check. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565123: Warsaw 01.05.1982. Martial Law in Poland. Dluga street / Krasinskich square, unofficial 1st May Solidarity parade. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565126: Warsaw 01.05.1982. Martial Law in Poland. Dluga street, unofficial beginning of 1st May Solidarity. Flag written, ' Solidarity'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565135: Warsaw, 14 October 1923. Main Post office, International mail and telegraph department. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565159: Warsaw, Poland, 12.1972. Start of the Monte Carlo Rally. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565174: Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 06.1975. Worker sleeps on a bin. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565186: Warsaw 01.1977. Roman Polanski - television interview. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565228: Czestochowa, 15.08.1982. Martial Law in Poland, pictured: contestants in the Warsaw Pilgrimage Walk to Czestochowa, group 6, demonstrating their support for 'Solidarity'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565318: Warsaw, Poland, 01.06.1979. Gymnastic show at the gala organised in front of the Palace of Science and Culture (Palac Kultury i Nauki) on International Children's Day (Dzien Dziecka). / Bridgeman Images

FRM565354: Zyrardow, Poland,18.01.1973. Advertising boards on the wall. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565357: Warsaw, Poland, 12.05.1974. Cleaning terrains around allotments. Sunday Party social free service action organized by the co-operative of housing estate in Rakowiec Poludniowy. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565366: Warsaw, Poland, 30.04.1977. Culture Activist Day. Dancers during show at he party for members of Trade and Co-operative Union (Zwiazek Zawodowy Pracownikow Handlu i Spoldzielczosci ZZPHiS). / Bridgeman Images

FRM565381: Gniezno 03.06.1979. Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565390: Gdansk, 12.06.1987. Pope John Paul II's third Pilgrimage to Poland, Westerplatte visit. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565399: Moscow, March 1986. Polish-Soviet relations. Wojciech Jaruzelski's visit to Moscow to celebrate the XXVII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Photographed: Secretary of Communist Party of the Soviet Union E. Ligaczowa (right ) bids Wojciech Jaruzelski (left) farewell at the airport. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565121: Warsaw 01.05.1982. Martial Law in Poland. Senatorska street, unofficial 1st May Solidarity parade. Banner written ' University with manual workers'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565127: Warsaw 01.05.1982. Martial Law in Poland. Stara street, unofficial beginning of 1st Maj Solidarnosc. Pictured: banner written ' No to dictatorship'. T-shirt written, 'Solidarnosc'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565145: Poland, 05.1974, Two men standing and chatting near truck. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565166: Turoszow, 02. 1983. Turow mining and power plant. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565169: Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, 11.1974. Horse killed in a car accident on a public road. / Bridgeman Images