Portal:Poland/Did you know/47

... that the P-badge (pictured) for Polish forced laborers was the first official, public badge introduced by Nazi Germany, preceding the Jewish yellow star by over a year?
... that Jakub Kagan, one of the best known Polish-Jewish composers of popular music who formed Kagan's Jazz Band in the interwar Warsaw, died during the Holocaust?
... that Polish Roman Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered about 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp?
... that Ewa Gryziecka's world record in women's javelin throw lasted 35 minutes?
... that the green-legged partridge and the Polish-bred Green-legged Partridge belong to different species?