Poland

text In My Hands: A Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong changes constantly and many years pass. Overall, she was in the countries: Poland, the Soviet Union, Russia, and Germany. This book was spread out for most of Irene’s life before and during the war. To begin, as a child Irene lived in many different cities in Poland. The first town Irene lived in was a little town called Kozienice. Irene obtained fame in the village when she almost fell into the river but her dog…

Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union drastically changed the course of World War II from that point on. Since nothing was changing on the Western front, Hitler turned to the East. He decided the time had officially come to create living space for the German people. His attack on the Soviets came as a surprise to Stalin, but later contributed to Hitler’s downfall. Hitler also ordered the killing or imprisonment of Jews, Communists, and people who were suspected of anti-German activity. When…

Introduction Poland and Russia have had ongoing conflicts with each other throughout periods of history. Many of these conflicts were due to issues pertaining to both territory and religious tensions. Multiple Polish-Soviet wars broke out over the last 500 years, however, in the last 300 years many of the victories were won by Russia (Zawodny 69). The continuous blows to the Polish state weakened Polish forces as well as their economy and led to its eventual partitioning in the 18th century…

resort, gifted the land back to the order once again. The order, not wanting to be taken advantage of, quickly set up their own form of government on the re-gifted land so that the King cannot take it back from them once again (Teutonic). The Duke of Poland heard of the Order and called upon them for help with dealing with unruly, barbaric, and savage pagan people. The Grandmaster consulted with the Emperor and the Duke and they came to the agreement that any land they were able to take from the…

The Krakow Ghetto was located in the capital of Nazi-occupied Poland, and was a much smaller ghetto than Lodz. 56,000 Polish Jews occupied this ghetto, whilst over 160,000 Polish Jews shared Lodz in only 1940, its second year of operation (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia - Lodz). Krakow…

forced to relent. A lot of events that constituted a dynamic change of Polish culture in the world spotlight. Two years prior, Karol Wojtyła had become Pope John Paul II, and soon after, the democratic Solidarity labor strikes in Poland became widespread activities that gave Poland change from communist party to western democracy. A government-authorized series of Milosz’s poems was issued and sold a 200,000 copies. But his most prestige work was “The Captive Mind”. It was about how the weak…

The Holocaust In the middle of World War Two, in German occupied Poland, with the Holocaust starting to form, the majority of the Jewish population were executed by simple civilians as well the “ordinary men” who had been recruited into the numerous police battalions who were ordered to execute Jews on site. To some degree, the Jewish chances of survival depended on the aid of the polish civilians and the gentiles that were at just as much risk for German persecution as they were. As Niewyck…

Born January 25, 1913 in Warsaw, Poland, Witold Lutoslawski is one of Poland’s most celebrated composers. The whole of Polish music would not be what it is today if it not were for the passion and dedication of Lutoslawski. The youngest of three sons, Lutoslawski started life at his family’s estate in Drozodowo. Life was good to the family for a time, until, as true for many at the time, World War I interrupted. As German troops invaded Poland, Lutoslawski’s father and uncle, Jozef and Marian,…

Hitler, when he came into power, basically spat in the face of the treaty, and changed and violated it in several ways. Firstly, he completely violated the military terms set forth by the treaty. In 1934, shortly after take power, he figuratively demolished the League of Nations Disarmament Conference. He demanded an ‘equality of arms’ with both Britain and France. Clearly, this is not what the treaty intended, that which being a disarmament of Germany. He continued to breakdown the treaty’s…

Warsaw, the capital of Poland, witnessed firsthand the highs and lows of World War II. After numerous bombings and invasions the city still stands and people live to tell it tale. Warsaw was a targeted by Germany during WWII by Hitler who had plans for the city to be destroyed. The change Warsaw went through can be pieced together by looking at the invasions and bombings that took place within the city and country. Further analysis of the events that actually occurred in Warsaw during World War…