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| 1943 April 19 |
| | | Jews in Warsaw resist a fierce German onslaught for a month before their ghetto is finally destroyed | |
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| 1944 August 1 |
| | | Members of the Polish resistance rise against the Germans in Warsaw, in a conflict lasting two months and bringing massive casualties | |
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| 1945 January 27 |
| | | The Red Army liberates the surviving prisoners at Auschwitz, who include the Italian novelist Primo Levi | |
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| 1947 |
| | | An election campaign in Poland, marked by violence and the use of terror, brings a Communist landslide | |
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| 1950 |
| | | The Family Moskat, about a Jewish family in Warsaw, is the first of Isaac Bashevis Singer's books to be published in English | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Polish-born British composer Andrzej Panufnik wins an international reputation with his Sinfonia elegiaco | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Polish film director Andrzej Wajda makes Ashes and Diamonds, starring the Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski uses 'aleatory counterpoint' in his Venetian Games | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik's Universal Prayer, a cantata setting poetry by Alexander Pope, has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Polish composer Witold Lutoslawksi writes a cello concerto for Mstislav Rostropovich | |
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