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2 days ago · Atrocities. Attacks on Poles during the massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were marked with extreme sadism and brutality. Rape, torture and mutilation were commonplace, with entire villages wiped out as a result. Poles were burned alive, flayed, impaled, crucified, disembowelled, dismembered and beheaded.
- Volhynia
Volhynia or Hatred (Polish: Wołyń) is a 2016 Polish war...
- Volhynia
3 days ago · Wielki Lwów. Łącznie miasto miało 67 km² (6346 ha) i ponad 300000 mieszkańców [47]. Lwów stał się trzecim co do wielkości miastem Rzeczypospolitej. Pomimo odpływu wielu przedstawicieli elity, miasto wciąż było jednym z głównych w kraju ośrodków nauki, kultury, sztuki i turystyki.
4 days ago · Ukraine. The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, [a] also known as Austrian Galicia or colloquially Austrian Poland, was a constituent possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the historical region of Galicia in Eastern Europe. The crownland was established in 1772. The lands were annexed from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as part of the First ...
5 days ago · ul. Czarnieckiego 18 Lwów. Województwo lwowskie – województwo II Rzeczypospolitej ze stolicą we Lwowie istniejące de jure w latach 1920–1945, de facto w latach 1921–1939. Zostało utworzone 23 grudnia 1920 [4], choć zaczęło funkcjonować 1 września 1921 [5]. Przestało de facto funkcjonować z wybuchem II wojny światowej.
May 9, 2024 · Jan Parandowski (born May 11, 1895, Lwów, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]—died September 26, 1978, Warsaw) was a Polish writer, essayist, and translator. Parandowski graduated from a classical gimnazjum in Lwów. In 1914, when the Russian army entered the city, he and other members of Poland’s intelligentsia were deported to Russia for the ...
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4 days ago · Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] ⓘ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
2 days ago · Several major cities were still in Polish hands, such as Warsaw, Lwów, Wilno, Grodno, Łuck, Tarnopol and Lublin (captured by German troops on 18 September). According to historian and author Leszek Moczulski , approximately 750,000 soldiers remained active in the Polish Army, whereas Czesław Grzelak and Henryk Stańczyk arrived at an estimated strength of 650,000 troops.
