Kraków

of the Munich Agreement, the Reich pardoned Schindler, who rose through the ranks of the Abwehr. Then, in 1939, Germany invaded Poland, marking the start of World War II. In an attempt to capitalize economically from the war, he left his wife for Krakow, Poland, and became involved in the black market. He began to use his charm to bribe German officers with contraband goods. However, he soon quit this frowned upon practice and and obtained a former Jewish enamelware factory and began making…

an emotional, heartbreaking film because of its narrative, and film making techniques employed. This film on Oskar Schindler, a German businessman, who helped the Polish Jews of the Krakow Ghetto is far more interesting to watch than a documentary with still pictures voiced by a narrator going the timeline of Krakow Ghetto.…

of an American company that expanded its market to Poland and the Central and Eastern European countries. Stewer Technologies, an American pipe manufacturer, create a joint venture in Poland to manufacture polyethylene pipes in the Polish city of Krakow. Poland is a city with 38 million of people, Poles are people who are very proud of their roots, and heritage, Poland is a communist country. Stewer Technologies created a company in Poland to avoid transportation costs and tariffs, Polska Pipe…

influenced his beliefs on religious tolerance and began to form his lifelong commitment to defending the defenseless as defensor civitatis. Wojtyla and his father moved to Krakow so that he could attend the Jagellonian University. We stumbled upon the university by accident as we were given free time in Krakow, and there is a plaque that commemorates his…

Joseph Conrad. They Conrad's education was erratic. First, he started being tutored by his literary father. When Conrad's parents died several years after being sent to Russia, he was raised by his uncle in Poland. Conrad then, attended school in Krakow and received further private schooling. At the age of sixteen though, Conrad left Poland and traveled to the port city of Marseilles, France. This is where he began his…

that the Nazi 's have been setting up since the 1930s. It function as this role throughout its whole existence but in 1942 it also became the largest of the death camps (Auschwitz-Birkenau). Auschwitz was found on a former military base outside of Krakow. Anyone who was living around this camp was ejected from their homes and the land was bulldozed by the Nazi to make room. The camp was originally meant to be a place where the arrested Poles were sent it was known as a Detention Camp. When…

Oskar Schindler wasn’t always the altruistic man that many people picture him as. Many people described him as a greedy, selfish man who’s only desire was to earn money. Schindler, who began the business purely for the purpose of personal gain, was like any other entrepreneur at the time, an industrialist who used the war as an opportunity to make money, but somewhere along the way something in him changed. After this sudden change of heart, he began to help shield his Jewish workers from all…

“Prison break: heroes escape the clutches of conformity” In modern society fundamental characteristics of a hero include Courage, sacrifice, determination, virtuosity, compassion and perseverance. However, I personally find those who break with the conformist nature of our contemporary society the most inspirational, those who challenge our understanding of what is supposedly considered “normal”. I view Jimmy page as a role model, as a result of not only his musical giftedness, but also his…

disgusting as some of the better-known concentration camps. Belzec was a concentration camp designed for killing thousand of Jews, and that is exactly what happened. Belzec was a death camp located in southeastern Poland, near the Polish cities of Lvov, Krakow, and Lublin. Heinrich Himmler, the Reich leader of the S.S. and Chief of German Police, hired S.S. General Odilo Globonik to organize the mass killing * of Jews in German-occupied Poland; this was later known as Operation Reinhard. Not…

1. The book Prisoner B-3087 was based on the time period during the holocaust. An example of this in the book was in chapter nine. “ The Nazis snatched me up one day when I was at work .I was still working at the tailor shop in Krakow ,hoping that it would save me from deportation.” Another example of this book being written during the holocaust was in chapter 16, “In a large empty room we were ordered to undress and pile our striped uniforms in a corner.” and “They whipped us and beat us again…