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5 days ago · On March 24, 1944, all nine members of the Ulma family were killed by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish family in their home in Poland, including a child still in the womb.
May 26, 2024 · He was consigned to the starvation bunker in the basement of Block 11, known as the “Death Block.” Eventually, Kolbe died Aug. 14, 1941, after having been given a lethal injection. Having visited the block where the saint had given his life, it was time to leave Auschwitz.
3 days ago · June 9, 1595, Kraków, Pol. Died: May 20, 1648, Merecz (aged 52) Title / Office: king (1632-1648), Poland. House / Dynasty: House of Vasa.
May 31, 2024 · She suddenly thought, one afternoon, that there was another date, of greater importance than all those; that of her own death; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there.
May 30, 2024 · Cemetery: Kraków, katedra na Wawelu. Władysław the Short or Elbow-high (or Ladislaus I of Poland, Polish: Władysław I Łokietek; 1261 – 2 March 1333), was a King of Poland. He was a Duke until 1300, and Prince of Kraków from 1305 until his coronation as King on 20 January 1320.
4 days ago · On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, when he was fatally shot from the nearby Texas School ...
May 16, 2024 · Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish soldier and statesman who led Poland’s government in exile during World War II. He was killed in an airplane crash at Gibraltar in 1943, which led many to speculate that his death was caused by foul play. Learn more about Sikorski’s life and career in this article.
