Bohaterowie frontu i kawiarni (Heroes of the Front and of the Café)
A two-panel poster sets a grim, rifle-carrying soldier beside three smoking, coffee-drinking civilians, one reading a newspaper headed 'Do broni!' (To arms!), under the title 'Heroes of the Front and of the Café'. Calling the café-sitters 'heroes' is the loaded label: the irony brands men who have not enlisted as shirkers without stating any charge.
- Date
- 1920
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Polish volunteer-army recruitment poster, Polish-Soviet War (sponsor not named on the sheet); printed by Kotkowski i Frejlich, Łódź
- Country
- Poland
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Second Polish Republic
- Leader
- Jozef Pilsudski
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Polish Soviet War
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (item from Polona, National Library of Poland), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Polish poster of about 1920, published before 1931; Commons: Public Domain Mark, life+70 or fewer)
Unknown artist; printed by Kotkowski i Frejlich, Łódź; Polona (National Library of Poland), via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
BOHATEROWIE FRONTU i KAWIARNI [newspaper in the right-hand panel:] KURIE[illegible] DO BRONI!! Kotkowski i Frejlich w Łodzi. Piotrk. 91
HEROES OF THE FRONT and OF THE CAFÉ [newspaper in the right-hand panel:] KURIE[illegible] TO ARMS!! Kotkowski and Frejlich in Łódź. Piotrk. [Piotrkowska St.] 91
The newspaper title is cut off by the panel border after 'KURIE' (probably Kurier). The first letter of 'FRONTU' is partly hidden by an archive label; library shelf marks at top right omitted.
