Kraków

Of course, Jack and Bill also have more investigations to do thanks to some information that has come to light regarding Mr. Gowen. I simply adore the pairing of these two--kind of like the dynamic duo of the Old West. One has to go by the books, and the other can be a little more creative in his interpretation of the law. Together, they are invincible as they solve whatever crime or perceived crime comes their way. As Bill, Jack is handsome, rugged and certainly committed to justice at any cost…

over the years, of people who have come to Australia for a new life. This is the story of Adam and Arek Romaniuk, who travelled from Krakow in Poland to Australia in the 1960s. World War two had raged through Europe in the 1940s, Poland was perhaps more affected than any other country. It was decimated and lost its independence. For 20-year-old Adam, a farmer from Krakow in the south of Poland, it meant witnessing much horror and despair at home and on the streets. Adam and his brother Arek are…

and died in the month of May 1543 in Frauenberg, Poland. Nicolaus’ main occupations consisted of being an astronomer, scientist, and mathematician but was also a doctor and painter. Copernicus studied at Krakow University, there he studied painting and mathematics. He then graduated from Krakow University and went to Italy, there he went to two universities, one called the University of Bologna, there he studied religious law and after completing that program he went to the University of Padua,…

Boy On The Wooden Box; Courage Worth a life The holocaust was a hard time for many, how would you fair? In The Boy On The Wooden Box, Leon was a young boys who struggles in the holocaust . One that really sticks out is his courage in order to persevere through the hard holocaust times. Leon needed courage when his family needed food. He went out for day at a time to scrounge food and do odd jobs just so he could bring food home for his family. In the text it said “I did jobs to get my family…

Art has always been a profoundly unique human catalyst for expressing hope, inspiration, communication, and passion. As one of the darkest events in human history, the Holocaust (1933-1945) served as the story that suffering artists needed to share with the world. As a German-Jewish artist who died in Auschwitz, Felix Nussbaum, said right before his death in 1944, “When I perish, do not allow my pictures to die with me. Show them to the people.” Though the Holocaust is one of the most tragic…

of honor. Oskar opened an enamelware factory in 1939. When jews started to be discredited, he decided to hire them as a way to improve his factory’s income. Jews were cheap to hire at the time. Later, when a nearby concentration camp was set up ( Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp ), he made a bargain with the person who ran it. This bargain would allow him to keep the jews he had employed from being deported or sent…

only real friend and ally. He begins to see his Jewish workers not as parts to a machine but as people working to stay alive. The ultimate turning point where Schindler realizes his duty on this earth occurs after he sees the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto. Schindler sat atop a hill with his girlfriend where he gazes upon pure and utter evil. Men, women, and children are being herded around like sheep and kicked out of their homes as soldiers steal whatever items the Jews have. Many are…

The country of Poland has undergone a multitude of change since the end of WWII, to understand this you must first understand the Polish culture before the war and then compare to everyday life now. The word culture is interpreted as a set of values, these values are goals, achievements, practices, social practices, religious practices, and in general a way of life. The Polish exhibited a high degree of social division before 1939. Six different classes or groups take part of the Polish…

landscape; these are not the friendly fields, the farmyards of Polish countryside; this is vast, dull, and formless” (100). We can see that Eva rebukes her new surroundings and yearns to return to her homeland of Krakow, Poland. She feels that part of her soul has been left in Krakow and that she can’t, “imagine feeling that I’m part of them” (100). It is important to note that Eva dissociates herself from her new country and instantly feels like an…

obtained fame in the village when she almost fell into the river but her dog Myszka saved her. Then she moved to Chelm to Radom and to Suchednów. Then, when her younger sister, Władzia, was born the Gut family moved to Częstochowa, which is northwest of Kraków. This town is when Irene develops the passion for helping people because Irene…