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- The name of Częstochowa means 'Częstoch's place' and comes from a personal name of Częstoch, mentioned in the medieval documents also as Częstobor and Częstomir.
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3 days ago · When the Nazis sealed the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of German-occupied Poland’s 400 ghettos, in the fall of 1940, the Jews—then 30 percent of Warsaw’s population—were forced into 2.4 percent of the city’s area.
4 days ago · The actors, all of them superb, acknowledge us on occasion; when Abram, the one Jewish character who escapes to America in time — played by the stage and screen veteran Richard Topol — bid his friends goodbye at a recent preview, Mr. Topol approached a viewer with a camera to capture the moment. Richard Topol in ‘Our Class.’ Jeremy Daniel
4 days ago · Before the Holocaust, Częstochowa was considered a great Jewish centre in Poland. By the end of World War II, nearly all Jews had been killed or deported to extermination camps to be killed, making Częstochowa what Nazi Germany called judenfrei .
3 days ago · The Final Solution (German: die Endlösung, pronounced [diː ˈʔɛntˌløːzʊŋ] ⓘ) or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question (German: Endlösung der Judenfrage, pronounced [ˈɛntˌløːzʊŋ deːɐ̯ ˈjuːdn̩ˌfʁaːɡə] ⓘ) was a Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews during World War II.
2 days ago · After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, following Nazi racial policy, the Jewish population of Silesia was subjected to Nazi genocide with executions performed by Einsatzgruppe z. B.V. led by Udo von Woyrsch and Einsatzgruppe I led by Bruno Streckenbach, [49] [50] imprisonment in ghettos and ethnic cleansing to the General Government. In ...
6 days ago · As Albert Stankowski, the Warsaw Ghetto Museum director, emphasises - the title of the exhibition is “as a testimony and document of the deeds of our brothers for our homeland”.
3 days ago · The name came from alleged ancestors of the szlachta (Sarmatians), and the concept served to integrate the multiethnic nobility.
