Nizio Design International - making of the Core Exhibition | Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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Największa zrealizowana dotąd w Polsce narracyjna ekspozycja historyczna – wystawa stała Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN – została otwarta 28 października 2014. Pracownia Nizio Design International pracowała nad projektem i realizacją wystawy stałej w latach 2011-2014. Osiem muzealnych galerii wypełnia przygotowana specjalnie na potrzeby ekspozycji scenografia. Duża część elementów wystawy to unikatowe prototypy, które nigdy wcześniej nie były wykorzystywane w tego typu ekspozycjach. Wystawa bazuje na pasywnych i aktywnych stanowiskach multimedialnych, meblach, malowidłach, elementach dekoracyjnych i nielicznych zabytkowych obiektach.
Ekspozycja podzielona jest na 8 galerii:
„Las”, „Pierwsze spotkania”, „Paradisus Iudaeorum”, „Miasteczko”, „Wyzwania Nowoczesności”, „Na żydowskiej ulicy”, „Zagłada”, „Powojnie”
Projektując i realizujące ekspozycję stałą zadbano o zastosowanie najlepszych materiałów, które spełniają wszelkie normy jakości, estetyki i bezpieczeństwa. Prace projektowe trwały półtora roku, natomiast budowa ekspozycji zajęła ponad dwa lata. Tworzenie projektu zazębiało się z realizacją wystawy stałej.
Firma Event Communications pracowała nad koncepcją wystawy w latach 2000-2003. Następnie pracowała nad projektem szczegółowym w latach 2006-2011. Polska pracownia architektoniczna Nizio Design International dokończyła projekt i uzupełniła go o projekt graficzny, przygotowała także dokumentację budowlaną, wykonawczą i zrealizowała wystawę w latach 2011-2014. Nizio Design International opracowało również projekt wykonawczy galerii Las i instalacji Post-89.
Zleceniodawca: Stowarzyszenie Żydowski Instytut Historyczny w Polsce.
Główny wykonawca wystawy stałej:
Nizio Design International
180heartbeats + JUNG v. MATT i Bad Design – autorzy projektu koncepcyjnego galerii Las i Post-89
Wykonawcy treści audio-video:
Clos Brothers S.A. – projekt i realizacja zawartości audiowizualnej stanowisk interaktywnych i pasywnych
FDR Sp. z o.o. – projekt i realizacja zawartości audiowizualnej stanowisk pasywnych
Newborn Sp. z o.o. – projekt i realizacja mappingu i projekcji w przestrzeni Ulica
Sonica Studio – udźwiękowienie
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The core exhibition of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews is the largest narrative historical exhibition ever staged in Poland. It was open on 28 October 2014. The core exhibition presenting the thousand-year-long history of the Jewish people on the Polish soil has been developed by the architectural studio Nizio Design International. A large part of the exhibition’s elements is comprised of unique prototypes that have never been applied in this kind of exhibitions.
The core exhibition relies on passive and active multimedia stations, furniture, paintings, decorative elements, and rare historic objects. All of the exhibition’s components have been delivered by select teams of architects, historians, graphic designers, craftsmen, visual artists, animators, and visualists.
Museum galleries:
“Forest”, “First Encounters”, “Paradisus Iudaeorum”, “The Jewish Town”, “Encounters with Modernity”, “On the Jewish Street”, “Holocaust”, “Postwar Years”.
While designing and delivering the core exhibition Nizio Design International took care to use the best materials that met the ultimate standards of quality, appearance, and safety. The very design works took one and half years, while it took more than two years to actually build the exhibition.
The Event Communications company developed the concept proposal of the exhibition in the years 2000-2003. Next, they worked on the detailed design in the period 2006-2011. The Polish architectural studio Nizio Design International completed the design and supplemented it with the graphic design, as well as prepared the building and detailed documentation and built the exhibition between 2011-2014. Nizio Design International has also developed the detailed design of the Forest gallery and the Post-89 installation.
The Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland is the initiator and co-founder of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
180heartbeats + JUNG v. MATT and Bad Design – authors of the concept design of Forest and Post-89 galleries
Audio and video content providers:
Clos Brothers S.A. – design and delivery of the audiovisual content of interactive and passive stations
FDR Sp. z o.o. – design and delivery of the audiovisual content of passive stations
Newborn Sp. z o.o. – design and delivery of the mapping and slide show within the space On the Jewish Street
Sonica Studio – sound
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Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a sovereign country in Central Europe. It is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of 312679 km2 with a mostly temperate climate. With a population of over 38.5 million people, Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland's capital and largest city is Warsaw. Other cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk and Szczecin. The establishment of a Polish state can be traced back to 966, when Mieszko I, ruler of a territory roughly coextensive with that of present-day Poland, converted to Christianity. The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin. This union formed the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th and 17th century Europe with a uniquely liberal political system which declared Europe's fir...
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Hromadske International. The Sunday Show - Anne Applebaum: In the time you waste doing reforms slowly, you can become corrupt
It is paramount to Ukraine's future success as a nation that lawmakers implement reforms immediately, said Anne Applebaum, a columnist with the Washington Post and an expert on post-Communist transitions. Applebaum compares the Polish experience of implementing reforms quickly after the country gained independence from the disintegrating Soviet Union and the Hungarian narrative of more sluggishly enacting reforms and attributes the relative success of the Polish economy today to the shock therapy reforms enacted in the early 1990s.
Hromadske correspondent Olga Tokariuk spoke with Anne Applebaum and the interview was played during Hromadske International's Sunday Show on Nov. 23, 2014.
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One of the major shortcomings of the post-revolutionary government in Ukraine is the inability to communicate properly with the outside world, Anne Applebaum, a prominent Pulitzer Prize winning author and a columnist for The Washington Post agrees. She is convinced that Ukrainian leaders should understand that this is part of their job as politicians to constantly explain who you are and what are you doing: “I’m not sure that Ukrainian politicians, all of them, have yet to understand this.”
On a larger scale, there is a monumental task ahead of Ukrainian leaders: creating a state in a society that people feel attached to, Applebaum adds. According to her, this is the way to win a war in Eastern Ukraine and also the battle against corruption. “The Ukrainian government made a mistake of not fighting corruption and not fighting for economic reforms using this kind of language. This is the life and death of Ukraine: whether you can create a viable state and a place where people want to live,” Applebaum suggests.
Answering the question on rising populism in Ukraine and the country’s controversial anti-communist legislation, Applebaum sided with the lawmakers: “I’m not bothered by this anti-communist law. Maybe it is now unnecessary, but in principal, I don’t see why you can’t ban communist symbols if you want to for a while and if it is useful in creating a sense of cohesion.”
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Wrocław
Wrocław (/ˈvrɒtswəf/; Polish pronunciation: [ˈvrɔt͡swaf] ( ); German: Breslau, known also by other alternative names), situated in Central Europe on the Silesian Lowlands on the river Oder (Polish: Odra), is the largest city in western Poland.
Wrocław is the historical capital of Silesia and Lower Silesia, today Wrocław is also the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
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Wielkomiejskie cmentarze żydowskie w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej - wykład | Muzeum POLIN
Wykład poświęcony żydowskim cmentarzom wielkomiejskim w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej i określeniu ich znaczenia dla historii (w tym historii Żydów), dialogu chrześcijańsko-muzułmańskiego, a także dla rozwoju i zmian architektury i krajobrazu. Istotnym elementem będzie także prześledzenie wzajemnych wpływów miedzy regionami Europy, w kontekście problemów ruchów reformatorskich oraz dialogu aszeknazyjsko-sefardyjskiego.
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Surrealism | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:09 1 Founding of the movement
00:06:45 1.1 Surrealist Manifestos
00:09:00 1.2 Bureau of Surrealist Research
00:09:20 2 Expansion
00:13:44 2.1 Surrealist literature
00:16:22 2.2 Surrealist films
00:17:00 2.3 Surrealist theatre
00:18:29 2.4 Surrealist music
00:19:51 3 Surrealism and international politics
00:24:23 3.1 Internal politics
00:27:12 4 Golden age
00:31:26 4.1 World War II and the Post War period
00:38:04 5 Post-Breton Surrealism
00:40:15 6 Impact of Surrealism
00:40:51 6.1 Other sources used by Surrealism epigons
00:41:42 6.2 1960s riots
00:42:41 6.3 Postmodernism and popular culture
00:46:23 6.4 Surrealist groups
00:47:01 6.5 Surrealism and the theatre
00:48:27 6.6 Surrealism and comedy
00:48:36 7 Alleged precursors in older art
00:49:11 8 See also
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Surrealism is a cultural movement that started in 1917, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes, sometimes with photographic precision, creating strange creatures from everyday objects, and developing painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself. Its aim was, according to Breton, to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality, or surreality.Works of surrealism feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement.
Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.
25 Things to do in Warsaw, Poland | Top Attractions Travel Guide
This was our first trip to Poland and we dove into the capital headfirst. While our travels may have started in the charming Old Town, it wasn't long before we discovered that Warsaw has a cool artsy side. We visited bright neon museums in the art district, shopped in boutiques selling soviet-chic apparel, and got to experience the capital's legendary nightlife. It many ways it was a whirlwind visit, but it was also a fun introduction that made us curious to discover more of Poland in our future travels. The following video will highlight 25 things to do in Warsaw and give you a glimpse into this up and coming capital.
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Warszawa Travel Guide: Top 25 things to do in Warsaw
1) Castle Square - plac Zamkowy w Warszawie
2) Royal Castle - Zamek Królewski w Warszawie
3) Pierogi - Perogi
4) The Neon Muzeum - Muzeum Neonów
5) Nysa Van tour – adventure Warsaw
6) Milk bar - bar mleczny
7) Vistula River Cruise - Wisła
8) Pub Crawl
9) Palace of Culture and Science - Pałac Kultury i Nauki,
10) Fryderyk Chopin Museum - Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina
11) Making Pierogi with Polish Your Cooking
12) Łazienki Park - Park Łazienkowski or Łazienki Królewskie
13) POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews - Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich
14) Bigos – Polish Hunter's Stew
15) Czar PRL - Life under Communism Museum
16) Warsaw University Library Garden
17) St. Anne's Church - Kościół św. Anny
18) Warsaw Barbican - barbakan warszawski
19) Presidential Palace - Pałac Prezydencki
20) Rurki z Kremem – Polish Torpedo Dessert
21) Warsaw Uprising Museum - Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego
22) Copernicus Science Centre - Centrum Nauki Kopernik
23) Warsaw night views
24) National Stadium - Stadion Narodowy
25) Pączki - paczki
We hope our travel guide has helped you to find some of the top places to experience architecture, art, entertainment and nightlife in Warsaw. You'll want to set aside a good chunk of time to visit some of the fascinating museums Warsaw has to offer in order to better understand its complicated history. We were fortunate to visit Warsaw when the weather was lovely in the middle of August. If you're going to come later on in the year you'll want to bring warmer clothes.
25 Things to do in Warsaw, Poland | Top Attractions Tourism Guide Video Transcript:
Well hello and welcome to Warszawa. This week we are exploring the Polish capital. We've already been here a few days and it has been amazing. It has been such a pleasant surprise and unlike any part of Europe we've traveled in so far. So yeah, this week we're going to be highlighting 25 things to do around the city and we're excited to show you what it is all about.
We came to Warsaw with little to no expectations and the city completely surprised us. Our week in the capital was spent sampling Polish cuisine, learning about the city's past through museums and historical tours, and also dabbling in a bit of the nightlife. Warsaw is quickly rising through the ranks and we think it won't be long before travellers are flocking en masse. So if you're planning a trip to Poland, don't skip over the capital because there is more to Warsaw than meets the eye.
This is part of our Travel in Poland series. We're making a series of videos showcasing Polish culture, Polish arts, Polish foods, Polish religion, Polish cuisine and Polish people.
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Nowa Huta - is the easternmost district of Kraków, Poland,. With more than 200,000 inhabitants, it is one of the most populous areas of the city. Neighboring districts until 1990 considered expansions of the original Nowa Huta township, and linked by the same tramway system, include Czyżyny, Mistrzejowice, Bieńczyce, and Wzgórza Krzesławickie. They are now separate districts of Kraków.
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Tear Down this Wall: Anne Applebaum
Tear Down this Wall: Teaching the Cold War in Schools, with Anne Applebaum, Washington Post foreign policy columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author.
Wrocław | Wikipedia audio article
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Wrocław (Polish: [ˈvrɔt͡swaf] (listen); German: Breslau [ˈbʁɛslaʊ]; Czech: Vratislav; Latin: Vratislavia) is a city in western Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, roughly 350 kilometres (220 mi) from the Baltic Sea to the north and 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the Sudeten Mountains to the south. The population of Wrocław in 2018 was 639,258, making it the fourth-largest city in Poland and the main city of Wrocław agglomeration.
Wrocław is the historical capital of Silesia and Lower Silesia. Today, it is the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. The history of the city dates back over a thousand years, and its extensive heritage combines almost all religions and cultures of Europe. At various times, it has been part of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Bohemia, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy, Prussia and Germany. Wrocław became part of Poland again in 1945, as a result of the border changes after the Second World War, which included a nearly complete exchange of population.
Wrocław is a university city with a student population of over 130,000, making it one of the most youthful cities in the country. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the University of Wrocław, previously Breslau University, produced 9 Nobel Prize laureates and is renowned for its high quality of teaching.Wrocław is classified as a Gamma- global city by GaWC. It was placed among the top 100 cities in the world for the quality of life by the consulting company Mercer.The city hosted the Eucharistic Congress in 1997 and the Euro 2012 football championships. In 2016, the city was a European Capital of Culture and the World Book Capital. Also in this year, Wrocław hosted the Theatre Olympics, World Bridge Games and the European Film Awards. In 2017, the city was the host of the IFLA Annual Conference and the World Games.
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Wrocław | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:18 1 Etymology
00:05:34 2 History
00:07:07 2.1 Middle Ages
00:13:17 2.2 Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-Reformation
00:16:25 2.3 Napoleonic Wars
00:17:45 2.4 Prussia and Germany
00:26:32 2.5 Second World War and afterwards
00:29:46 2.6 After the war
00:34:52 3 Environment
00:35:14 3.1 Air pollution
00:37:29 3.2 Climate
00:39:34 3.3 Fauna
00:41:41 3.4 Water
00:42:31 4 Government and politics
00:43:12 4.1 Districts
00:45:31 4.2 Municipal government
00:47:21 5 Tourism
00:47:53 5.1 Landmarks and points of interest
00:53:22 5.2 Swimming
00:54:25 5.3 Shopping malls
00:55:36 5.4 Entertainment
00:57:11 5.5 Museums
00:58:54 6 Wrocław in literature
01:00:14 7 Education
01:03:46 8 Transport
01:08:05 9 Demographics
01:08:15 9.1 Population
01:08:25 9.2 Religion
01:12:17 10 Professional sports
01:14:09 10.1 Men's sports
01:16:02 10.2 Women's sports
01:16:31 11 Economy
01:21:14 12 Major corporations
01:21:25 13 International relations
01:21:36 13.1 Twin towns and sister cities
01:21:51 13.2 Partnerships
01:22:05 14 Gallery
01:22:14 15 Notable people
01:22:24 16 See also
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Wrocław (UK: , US: , Polish: [ˈvrɔtswaf] (listen); German: Breslau [ˈbʁɛslaʊ]; Czech: Vratislav; Latin: Vratislavia) is a city in western Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, roughly 350 kilometres (220 mi) from the Baltic Sea to the north and 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the Sudeten Mountains to the south. The population of Wrocław in 2018 was 640,648, making it the fourth-largest city in Poland and the main city of the Wrocław agglomeration.Wrocław is the historical capital of Silesia and Lower Silesia. Today, it is the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. The history of the city dates back over a thousand years, and its extensive heritage combines almost all religions and cultures of Europe. At various times, it has been part of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Bohemia, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy, Prussia and Germany. Wrocław became part of Poland again in 1945, as a result of the border changes after the Second World War, which included a nearly complete exchange of population.
Wrocław is a university city with a student population of over 130,000, making it one of the most youthful cities in the country. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the University of Wrocław, previously Breslau University, produced 9 Nobel Prize laureates and is renowned for its high quality of teaching.Wrocław is classified as a Gamma-global city by GaWC. It was placed among the top 100 cities in the world for the quality of life by the consulting company Mercer and in the top 100 of the smartest cities in the world in the IESE Cities in Motion Index 2019 report.The city hosted the Eucharistic Congress in 1997 and the Euro 2012 football championships. In 2016, the city was a European Capital of Culture and the World Book Capital. Also in this year, Wrocław hosted the Theatre Olympics, World Bridge Games and the European Film Awards. In 2017, the city was the host of the IFLA Annual Conference and the World Games.
Science and the First World War (26 June 2014)
Prof Jon Agar, UCL Science and Technology Studies
By examining the lives of figures such as Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley and Fritz Haber, Prof Jon Agar will show how scientists on all sides of the First World War were swept up in the tide of patriotism, militarism and nationalism, making contributions, some tragically brief, some devastatingly effective, to the waging of war. And what of the long-lasting effects? While some saw the Great War as an irreparable crisis of modern civilisation, with science as a symbol of inhumanity, others saw science as a internationalist project capable of healing wounds.
Peter Malmgren's Interview
Peter Malmgren, an oral historian and cabinet maker, is the author of Los Alamos Revisited: A Workers’ History, which uses oral histories to tell the story of Los Alamos National Laboratory from the perspectives of the people who helped build and maintain it. Malmgren has been a resident of Chimayó, New Mexico since 1971. In this interview, he discusses some of the oral histories from his book and what he has learned about Los Alamos in the process. Malmgren describes interviewees’ perspectives on discrimination, health and safety, and working conditions. He also describes how the interviews have informed his own views of the Los Alamos laboratory.
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Poland | Wikipedia audio article
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Poland
00:03:02 1 Etymology
00:03:42 2 History
00:03:51 2.1 Prehistory and protohistory
00:05:43 2.2 Piast dynasty
00:09:26 2.3 Jagiellon dynasty
00:12:27 2.4 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
00:16:27 2.5 Partitions
00:19:09 2.6 Era of insurrections
00:23:38 2.7 Reconstruction
00:26:43 2.8 World War II
00:32:40 2.9 Post-war communism
00:35:24 2.10 1990s to present
00:38:32 3 Geography
00:40:09 3.1 Geology
00:43:46 3.2 Waters
00:48:15 3.3 Land use
00:50:07 3.4 Biodiversity
00:52:05 3.5 Climate
00:54:08 4 Politics
00:56:32 4.1 Law
01:00:23 4.2 Foreign relations
01:02:55 4.3 Administrative divisions
01:04:06 4.4 Military
01:08:03 4.5 Law enforcement and emergency services
01:09:29 5 Economy
01:13:56 5.1 Corporations
01:15:28 5.2 Tourism
01:17:21 5.3 Energy
01:19:18 5.4 Transport
01:23:19 5.5 Science and technology
01:26:00 5.6 Communications
01:27:42 6 Demographics
01:29:17 6.1 Urbanization
01:29:25 6.2 Languages
01:31:58 6.3 Ethnicity
01:35:04 6.4 Religion
01:38:58 6.5 Health
01:40:59 6.6 Education
01:43:51 7 Culture
01:44:50 7.1 Music
01:49:13 7.2 Art
01:51:49 7.3 Architecture
01:55:15 7.4 Literature
01:59:51 7.5 Cinema
02:02:15 7.6 Media
02:04:41 7.7 Cuisine
02:07:29 7.8 Sports
02:10:37 7.9 Fashion and design
02:14:16 8 See also
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- Socrates
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Poland (Polish: Polska [ˈpɔlska] (listen)), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska [ʐɛt͡ʂpɔˈspɔlita ˈpɔlska] (listen)), is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of 312,696 square kilometres (120,733 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With a population of approximately 38.5 million people, Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk and Szczecin.
The establishment of the Polish state can be traced back to A.D. 966, when Mieszko I, ruler of the realm coextensive with the territory of present-day Poland, converted to Christianity. The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented its longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin. This union formed the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest (about 1 million km2) and most populous countries of 16th- and 17th-century Europe, with a uniquely liberal political system which adopted Europe's first written national constitution, the Constitution of 3 May 1791.
More than a century after the Partitions of Poland at the end of the 18th century, Poland regained its independence in 1918 with the Treaty of Versailles. In September 1939, World War II started with the invasion of Poland by Germany, followed by the Soviet Union invading Poland in accordance with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. More than six million Polish citizens perished in the war. In 1947, the Polish People's Republic was established as a satellite state under Soviet influence. In the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1989, most notably through the emergence of the Solidarity movement, the sovereign state of Poland reestablished itself as a presidential democratic republic.
Poland is a developed market and regional power. It has the eighth largest and one of the most dynamic economies in the European Union, simultaneously achieving a very high rank on the Human Development Index. Additionally, the Polish Stock Exchange in Warsaw is the largest and most important in Central Europe. Poland is a developed country, which maintains a high-income economy along with very high standards of living, life quality, safety, education and economic freedom. Poland has a developed school educational system. The country provides free university education, state-funded social security and a universal health care system for all citizens. Poland has 15 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 14 of which are cultural. Poland is a m ...
Poland in World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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00:05:24 1 Before the war
00:05:33 1.1 Rearmament and first annexations
00:08:13 1.2 Aftermath of the Munich Agreement
00:10:39 1.3 Military alliances
00:13:41 2 German and Soviet invasions of Poland
00:13:53 2.1 German invasion
00:23:25 2.2 Soviet invasion
00:25:55 2.3 End of campaign
00:29:05 3 Occupation of Poland
00:29:15 3.1 German-occupied Poland
00:40:30 3.2 Soviet-occupied Poland
00:52:10 3.3 Collaboration with the occupiers
00:58:02 4 Resistance in Poland
00:58:12 4.1 Armed resistance and the Underground State
01:02:53 4.2 After Operation Barbarossa
01:06:19 4.3 Operation Tempest and the Warsaw Uprising
01:15:00 5 The Holocaust in Poland
01:15:11 5.1 Jews in Poland
01:17:02 5.2 Nazi persecution and elimination of ghettos
01:19:32 5.3 Extermination of Jews
01:23:09 5.4 Efforts to save Jews
01:24:55 6 Polish-Ukrainian conflict
01:25:05 6.1 Background
01:27:01 6.2 Ethnic cleansing
01:29:56 7 Government-in-Exile, communist victory
01:30:07 7.1 Polish government in France and Britain
01:34:19 7.2 Polish Army's evacuation from the Soviet Union
01:37:10 7.3 In the shadow of Soviet offensive, death of Prime Minister Sikorski
01:40:49 7.4 Decline of Government-in-Exile
01:46:06 7.5 Soviet and Polish-communist victory
01:50:58 8 Polish state reestablished with new borders and under Soviet domination
01:51:12 8.1 Poland's war losses
01:53:51 8.2 Beginnings of communist government
01:57:01 8.3 Allied determinations
02:00:38 8.4 Persecution of opposition
02:05:04 8.5 Soviet-controlled Polish state
02:09:17 9 See also
02:09:45 10 Notes
02:09:54 11 Citations
02:10:04 12 Bibliography
02:10:13 13 External links
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The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World War II. Following the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on 1 September 1939 and by the Soviet Union on 17 September. The campaigns ended in early October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland. After the Axis attack on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, all of Poland was occupied by Germany. Under the two occupations, Polish citizens suffered enormous human and material losses. According to the Institute of National Remembrance estimates, about 5.6 million Polish citizens died as a result of the German occupation and about 150,000 died as a result of the Soviet occupation. The Jews were singled out by the Germans for a quick and total annihilation and about 90% of Polish Jews (close to three million people) were murdered as part of the Holocaust. Jews, Poles, Romani people and prisoners of many other ethnicities were killed en masse at Nazi extermination camps, such as Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibór. Ethnic Poles were subjected to both Nazi German and Soviet persecution. The Germans killed an estimated two million ethnic Poles. They had future plans to turn the remaining majority of Poles into slave labor and annihilate those perceived as “undesirable” as part of the wider Generalplan Ost. Ethnic cleansing and massacres of Poles and to a lesser extent Ukrainians were perpetrated in western Ukraine (prewar Polish Kresy) from 1943. The Poles were murdered by Ukrainian nationalists.
In September 1939, the Polish government officials sought refuge in Romania, but their subsequent internment there prevented the intended continuation abroad as the government of Poland. General Władysław Sikorski, a former prime minister, arrived in France, where a replacement Polish Government-in-Exile was soon formed. After the fall of France, the government was evacuated to Britain. The Polish armed forces had been reconstituted an ...
Frederick Abrams, The Underground Cathedral, Audio Art Festival Installation, Warsaw 1999
Sound, music and light installation by Frederick Abrams for the 1999 International Audio Art Festival at Ujazdowski Castle, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland.
Poland | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Poland
00:03:02 1 Etymology
00:03:42 2 History
00:03:51 2.1 Prehistory and protohistory
00:05:43 2.2 Piast dynasty
00:09:26 2.3 Jagiellon dynasty
00:12:27 2.4 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
00:16:27 2.5 Partitions
00:19:09 2.6 Era of insurrections
00:23:38 2.7 Reconstruction
00:26:43 2.8 World War II
00:32:40 2.9 Post-war communism
00:35:24 2.10 1990s to present
00:38:32 3 Geography
00:40:09 3.1 Geology
00:43:46 3.2 Waters
00:48:15 3.3 Land use
00:50:07 3.4 Biodiversity
00:52:05 3.5 Climate
00:54:08 4 Politics
00:56:32 4.1 Law
01:00:23 4.2 Foreign relations
01:02:55 4.3 Administrative divisions
01:04:06 4.4 Military
01:08:03 4.5 Law enforcement and emergency services
01:09:29 5 Economy
01:13:56 5.1 Corporations
01:15:28 5.2 Tourism
01:17:21 5.3 Energy
01:19:18 5.4 Transport
01:23:19 5.5 Science and technology
01:26:00 5.6 Communications
01:27:42 6 Demographics
01:29:17 6.1 Urbanization
01:29:25 6.2 Languages
01:31:58 6.3 Ethnicity
01:35:04 6.4 Religion
01:38:58 6.5 Health
01:40:59 6.6 Education
01:43:51 7 Culture
01:44:50 7.1 Music
01:49:13 7.2 Art
01:51:49 7.3 Architecture
01:55:15 7.4 Literature
01:59:51 7.5 Cinema
02:02:15 7.6 Media
02:04:41 7.7 Cuisine
02:07:29 7.8 Sports
02:10:37 7.9 Fashion and design
02:14:16 8 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Poland (Polish: Polska [ˈpɔlska] (listen)), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska [ʐɛt͡ʂpɔˈspɔlita ˈpɔlska] (listen)), is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of 312,696 square kilometres (120,733 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With a population of approximately 38.5 million people, Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk and Szczecin.
The establishment of the Polish state can be traced back to A.D. 966, when Mieszko I, ruler of the realm coextensive with the territory of present-day Poland, converted to Christianity. The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented its longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin. This union formed the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest (about 1 million km2) and most populous countries of 16th- and 17th-century Europe, with a uniquely liberal political system which adopted Europe's first written national constitution, the Constitution of 3 May 1791.
More than a century after the Partitions of Poland at the end of the 18th century, Poland regained its independence in 1918 with the Treaty of Versailles. In September 1939, World War II started with the invasion of Poland by Germany, followed by the Soviet Union invading Poland in accordance with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. More than six million Polish citizens perished in the war. In 1947, the Polish People's Republic was established as a satellite state under Soviet influence. In the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1989, most notably through the emergence of the Solidarity movement, the sovereign state of Poland reestablished itself as a presidential democratic republic.
Poland is a developed market and regional power. It has the eighth largest and one of the most dynamic economies in the European Union, simultaneously achieving a very high rank on the Human Development Index. Additionally, the Polish Stock Exchange in Warsaw is the largest and most important in Central Europe. Poland is a developed country, which maintains a high-income economy along with very high standards of living, life quality, safety, education and economic freedom. Poland has a developed school educational system. The country provides free university education, state-funded social security and a universal health care system for all citizens. Poland has 15 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 14 of which are cultural. Poland is a m ...
Bauhinia Seminar and Workshop on Social Innovation - Opening Remarks
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