Poland

very important value to them. They danced at local ethnic clubs and churches where Polkas were very popular. In their country the government took most of their money they had. The parents would send their children to America for a better life. In Poland they had very severe weather. Therefore, they wanted to come to America to escape the threat of severe storms and flooding. They had very poor economy so they immigrated…

In 1980s Poland, a group of workers rose up to combat Communist restrictions on the rights of the laborers. At its height, more than 9.4 million people joined the movement that ultimately led to the destruction of Communist rule in Poland. Polish workers grew tired of the harsh restrictions imposed by the Soviet government, and the lack of freedom that they created. The…

official country name is The Federal Republic of Germany, but it is commonly referred to as Germany or Deutschland. Located in Central Europe. Germany is a country who borders the Baltic Sea and the North Sea; it is nestled between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark. At 357,022 sq. km, Germany, is the sixty-third largest country in the world; according to the CIA.gov website it is “three times the size of Pennsylvania; slightly smaller than Montana.” The population of Germany is…

Arek Hersh Arek Hersh was born in Poland in 1929. He was brought up in a Jewish family. His family was always very close. He went to a Jewish elementary school, and mixed middle school. Jewish people in Poland were scared, especially after the 'Polenaktion' of 1938 where Germany expelled many Polish Jewish citizens across the border. In September of 1939 Germany Attacked Poland. Arek and his family had to leave their home, friends, and old lives behind to live with family in Lodz. They had to…

Why did Nazi Germany invade the Soviet Union in 1941? Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 for several reasons, the most extenuating factor in the decision making process to invade the Soviet Union was the desire for Lebensraum. I will also be taking into consideration there standing in the Second World War at that time, the economic factors, Hitler’s racial ideology and his hatred of communism. I will then come to a conclusion upo my finding summarising the reasons behind the invasion of…

Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman. While on its Exterior it is about Vladek Spiegelman’s experiences in the holocaust, there is also much more. In multiple ways, the relationship between Art Spiegelman and his father Vladek Spiegelman is the main story in the book, and this story experiences many feelings of guilt. Most of that guilt is linked with members of the family. The narrative consists of three main forms of guilt, Art’s emotional state of guilt on not being a good son to his…

Introduction The North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact were two defining features of the Cold War, formed early in the period and lasting the entire duration of the Cold War. Both treaties were initially formed with the predominant idea of mutual protection, as evidenced in NATO’s Washington Treaty article five, and the Warsaw Pact’s Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance’s similar article four. These two articles both state that an attack on one of the member…

things like money or food to help him out as much as possible. Valadek first encounter with the start of the Holocaust is when he was captured as a POW by the Germans and forced into labor camp with little food and basic necessity. After returning to Poland he found everything has changing all Jewish business and homes were taken away and given to the Polish or Germans. Jewish people were disappearing or being killed indiscriminately. This was the beginning of the war where many of the Jews were…

centuries, individuals have employed humour, whether it be in the form of satire, irony, or understatement, to help them cope with trauma. Likewise, it comes as no surprise that, in detailing his father’s horrific experiences as a Jew in Nazi occupied Poland through a comic where Jews are represented as mice, Poles as pigs, and Germans as cats, Spiegelman employs humor. Moreover,…

Tadeusz Sobolewicz was born on March 25, 1925 in Poznan, Poland.When he was a teenager his life consisted of boy scouts and gymnastics but when the war broke out he and his mother and his younger brother were forced to flee their homes. He became an active member of the Polish Resistance Movement but was arrested under false name on September 1st, 1941 and had been sent to Gestapo Prison. There he was interrogated and severely beaten to disclose other names of the underground resistance. He…