Poland

reasoning for my poster to be belonging from the period of the Second World War: France and Britain declare war on Germany as a reflex to its invasion of Poland, French and British armies started backing up from the front lines, France surrenders to Germany in WW2 and Germany faces defeat in the First World War. First, Germany had invaded Poland as a defensive act, but the unconvinced French and British government responded with a declaration of war. Adolf Hitler had plans to take back the…

Located in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, it was the largest of all the ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe holding over 400,000 Jews. Although Poland’s pre-war Jewish community represented roughy 30% of the city’s total population, the area allocated to the Jews was only about 2.4% of that…

individual in which it belongs. My paternal great-great-great-grandfather on my grandmother’s side, Charles Newfeld, was a Jewish man who was born and raised in Poland until about 1892 (the actual date is not known), when he moved to the United States. He married Fanny (Fagi in German) Ludvki, a Jewish woman who was also born in Poland, and together they had eight…

After the events of World War II America was almost facing another war. This time with a more familiar enemy, Stalin and the Soviet Union. The two world powers clashed almost resulting in nuclear war. Experts have argued that they were bound to clash due to them being the only world powers at the time. However, the Cold War was started because the actions during World War II, the vague agreements postwar, and the almost nationalistic hatred of communists. During World War II America and Great…

“The Groundlings,” a book written by Diane Slumber, is a great representation of what happened in World War 2. The book is a true story about the keepers of the groundlings in Poland. The book narrates Germany invading Poland, devastating Warsaw’s most important groundlings. Grounds Keepers, Yan and Angela Smithski, the couple who originally had almost nothing to keep, developed a number of important ground sites. This became more motivation for them to participate in the official Resistant…

Through the pact, Russia was not only promised half of Poland, a territory which had been under Russian sovereignty before World War I, but the Baltic States and Bulgaria. Although Ribbentrop, under the guidance of Hitler, most likely didn’t assume that Russia was ever planning to expand it’s sphere of influence to these regions. With the non-aggression pact, Ribbentrop had secured a safe border with Russia, and through the invasion of Poland had consequently bloodied the hands of Russia in the…

Northern Illinois University (NIU)? Master of Arts in Teaching plus ELL endorsement  What year are you in school? (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior) It’s my 5th semester,  Why did you decide to go to school at NIU? I worked as a teacher in Poland for 12 years. When I immigrated to the U.S., it was obvious to me that I needed to start going to school and obtain a teaching certificate in order to be able to get a “normal” job. The Board of Education gave me a credit for my Bachelor…

with Poland. The pact was put in place in order to minimize the possibility of a military alliance against Germany between France and Poland before Germany had a chance to rearm. This move was not popular with many Germans who disliked the fact that Poland had gained formerly German Provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia following World War I. Five years later, on August 23, 1939. Germany signed a similar nonaggression pact with The Soviet Union. The pact called for Poland to…

codename for the Polska Rada Pomocy Żydom . ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? World War II broke out when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. This invasion led to Britain and France declared war on Germany in retaliation. Sided with Germany, the Soviet Union invaded and declared war on Poland on September 17, 1939. The persecution of Jews did not begin during the Second World War, in fact, the oppression of the Jewish population of Germany began a…

Poland, a nation know for a history of invasions and occupation by foreign governments and ideologies, is also home to a unique culture. One of the main elements of this culture is literature, specifically poetry, and the poets behind these amazing works of literature are extremely well know. Wislawa Szymborska, one of the most well known of these poets wrote hundreds of poems that reflect the ideals and culture of the country she grew up in. Her poems are also a derivative of events in her own…