[8] The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying on World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated that there were about 300 Baháʼís in 2005.
[2] Isabella Grinevskaya was the pen name of a very early Russian Baháʼí born in Grodno, and her father is buried in Warsaw.
[13] Later the rector of the Catholic University of Lublin met ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in 1914 while he lived in Palestine, and in 1915 a Polish translation of Paris Talks was published in Silesia.
[4] Zamenhof was the official representative of the religion to the dedication of the monument erected upon the grave of her father in Warsaw in 1926.
[14] Some Canadian Baháʼís visited Poland in the early 1930s[15] while Zamenhof went to the United States in late 1937 to teach the religion as well as Esperanto.
In December 1938 she returned to Poland, where she continued to teach and translated Baháʼu'lláh and the New Era (see John Esslemont), The Hidden Words and Some Answered Questions.
[17] In the second half of 1938 Zamenhof was a major influence of the conversion of the first known Ukrainian becoming a Baháʼí, who was living in eastern Poland at the time.
[21] The religion entered a new phase of activity when a message of the Universal House of Justice dated 20 October 1983 was released.
While the Baháʼí community became all but unknown, the religion had been the object of some academic and popular commentary in Poland over the years.
Contrary to this, native Polish works were either neutral or sympathetic to the religion, including publications from the Catholic Church in Poland.
[2] One of the few Polish Baháʼís known from this period was Ola Pawlowska, a native of Poland who had fled during World War II and settled in Canada, where she became a member of the religion.
[30] In 1971 at the age 61 she returned to Poland for a period of almost 2 years before pioneering to Luxemburg and then Zaire where she took interest in the Pygmy population.
[1] In 2000, Poland supported a United Nations human rights resolution about concern over the Baháʼís in Iran as well as taking steps to further document conditions.
[8] The Polish edition of Cosmopolitan had an extended article about the Baháʼí Faith in August 2008 by Małgorzata Łuka-Kowalczyk who followed a family learning about the religion.
[42] The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying on World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated about 990 Baháʼís in 2005.