The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (Polish: rzeź wołyńska, literally: Volhynian slaughter; Ukrainian: Волинська трагедія, Volyn tragedy), were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or the UPA, with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population against the Polish minority in Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, parts of ...
- 1943–1945
- Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, Polesie, Lublin region
This represented a far greater threat to both Poland and Lithuania, and the two countries united in a defensive alliance by the crowning of the Lithuanian Duke Jogaila as King of Poland (as Władysław II) which led to a major confrontation at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 and subsequent wars until 1525, when the Order became a vassal to the ...
polishhistory: In the spring of 1940, the Soviet secret police committed an unprecedented crime by secretly murdering nearly 22,000 Polish citizens. What place does this tragedy occupy in Polish national memory? Professor Tadeusz Wolsza: The Katyń massacre permanently, painfully, and deeply entered into our national history. Each subsequent anniversary is accompanied by new editions of...
Władysław I Władysław was crowned king of Poland in 1320, but he no longer controlled Silesia—whose dukes opted for John and which henceforth came under the Bohemian crown—and the Teutonic Knights seized Eastern Pomerania. The massacre the Knights perpetrated in Gdańsk in 1308 entered Polish folklore.
Most of such initiatives were carried out by Prime Minister Gen. Władysław Sikorski and the commander of the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR Gen. Władysław Anders (and on his behalf, inter alia, Capt. Józef Czapski). In April 1943, the German propaganda came up with the notion of the discovery of graves of Polish officers near Smolensk.
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Winston Churchill with General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces and General Charles de Gaulle, General Officer Commanding French Forces (photo by Horton, War Office official photographer; public domain)
After a power struggle, Bolesław III the Wry-mouthed (son of Władysław Herman, ruled 1102–1138) became the Duke of Poland by defeating his half-brother in 1106–1107. Bolesław's major achievement was the reconquest of all of Mieszko I's Pomerania , a task begun by his father and completed by Bolesław around 1123.
Aug 22, 2020 · Lower Silesia (Polish: Dolnośląskie) is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in the southwest of the republic in the historic Silesia region. A tumultuous battleground between Europe's dynastic and imperial powers for over a thousand years, Lower Silesia's cultural and political borders have shifted considerably in the last millennium.
April 3, 1886 - Władysław Tatarkiewicz was born. He was a philosopher and historian belonging to the interwar Lwów–Warsaw school of logic, created by Kazimierz Twardowski. April 2, 1939 - Walery Sławek, one of Józef Piłsudski's closest associates, committed suicide. In his farewell letter, he did not disclose his motives.
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