Museum of the Polish Post Office

A modest museum giving the account of how a small group of postal workers resisted numerically superior fascist invaders

This is a small but well thought-out museum that shares space with the polish post office today. The museum tells the important story of how Polish postal workers at this very building put up stern re...

Informative, inspiring and heart-breaking

My husband and I spent time in this museum on our recent trip to Gdansk. I asked a couple of questions to one of the staff, Maciej Ostrowski, who then spent extra time with us, explaining the histor...

Another episode in Gdansk's amazing history

The Post Office was the last part of Gdansk to surrender to the invading Nazis in September 1939. All but 4 of the 43 workers in the building at the time were killed. There is a striking memorial to t...

Small museum of a significant event

The museum commemorates an odd event that was over in a day. Although it was a brave if futile mark of resistance to the nazis it is significant in Polish history. There isn't a lot to see in the thre...

Museum of the Polish Post Office

A small museum documenting the events that happened on September 1, 1939 at the beginning of World War II. Detailed explanations are provided in Polish and English about the crimes committed by the na...