Suwałki District Museum and the State Archives
Poland Class SU45 in June 2009
Class SU45 hauled passenger trains in the Suwalki / Elk area of Poland in June 2009. Video by Dave Smith
May 3rd Constitution Park - Suwałki
Arrival at Radomsko railway station
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POLAND - WikiVidi Documentary
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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00:18:20: Partitions
00:21:28: Era of insurrections
00:26:58: Reconstruction
00:30:40: World War II
00:38:45: Post-war communism
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Killing of Jewish men in Kamień-Koszyrski (until 1939 Poland) in August 1941
Avraham Biber who was born in Kamień-Koszyrski (until 1939 Poland) in 1924 and was living there during its German occupation testifies how his father was taken together with other Jewish men to be shot in the forest outside the town. Biber tells how he managed to avoid this round up and thus was saved.
Lazienki Park - Warsaw, Central Poland, Poland
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Lazienki Park Warsaw
Magnificent palatial and garden complex was built by King Stanislaw August Poniatowski during the second half of the eighteenth century and features the neoclassical Palace on the Water (Lazienki Palace) surrounded by magnificent gardens, c****s and ponds.
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Travel blogs from Lazienki Park:
- ... Once this was all wrapped up, we went to Lazienki park, the big park in the middle of the city, that gives a break from the traffic and noise ...
- ... I continued down the street aiming for the end, which was Lazienki Park, end of the Royal Mile ...
- ... Warsaw Ghetto Old Town Historical Museum Shopping - enjoying better food here Lazienki Park - palace, ducks & open air theatre ...
- ... Things to see: - The Old Town - Wilanow (with beautiful palace and park ) - Lazienki Park (fantastic park and place to relax, Palace on the Water) - Lots of Churches - National Opera (see an opera - some are ...
- ... From there we ventured to Lazienki Park in the heart of Warsaw for a day of photos and of course ice cream ...
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- Another view of Lazienki Park, Warsaw by Bermudez from a blog titled Week 11. A nation of tragic stories, lovely people
- Palace on the Water in Lazienki Park by Mikeg from a blog titled All Saints' Day in Warsaw
- Lazienki Park (Palace on the water) by Gbasilio from a blog titled Days 5-7
- Palace on the Lake at Lazienki Park by Will from a blog titled A change of scene
- Kuba and Kornelia at Lazienki Park by Will from a blog titled A change of scene
- Chopin Statue at the Lazienki Park by Ulka from a blog titled Warsaw
- Royal Way towards Lazienki Park by Gbasilio from a blog titled Days 5-7
- Lazienki Park (Chopin Monument) by Gbasilio from a blog titled Days 5-7
- Lazienki Park, Warsaw by Bermudez from a blog titled Week 11. A nation of tragic stories, lovely people
- Us in Lazienki Park by Courtney from a blog titled Wet Monday
- Lazienki Park by Mikeg from a blog titled All Saints' Day in Warsaw
Nowy Dwor Poland - Descendents Reunion at Jewish Cemetery
Descendants reunion at the Jewish Cemetery in Nowy Dwor June 2015. Michael Grabman from Johannesburg South Africa (michaelg@global.co.za)
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Białowieża National Park, Białowieża, Podlaskie, Poland, Europe
Białowieża National Park is a National Park in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland adjacent with the border with Belarus. The total area of the Park is 152.2 square kilometres (58.8 sq mi). It is located 62 km (39 mi) southeast of Białystok (Poland). It is known for the protection of the best preserved part of the Białowieża Forest, Europe's last primaeval forest fragment that once stretched across the European Plain. It is home to the world's largest population of European bison (Polish: żubr), the continent's heaviest land animals. The border between the two countries runs through the forest, the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park is adjacent on the Belarus side of the border. There is a border crossing for hikers and cyclists within the forest. The park's formal beginning was the Forest Reserve inspectorate (Polish: Rezerwat) established in 1921. The inspectorate was transformed into the National Park in Białowieża on 11 August 1932 by the Second Polish Republic. After World War II, the forest was divided between the People's Republic of Poland and the Belarusian SSR of the Soviet Union. The People's Republic of Poland reopened the Białowieża National Park in 1947. The park headquarters is in Białowieża. Currently, the park consists of three administrative units: Protective Orłówka Precinct, Conservation District Hwoźna, and Bison Breeding Centre (with three reserves, breeding and demonstration Bison Reserve).
Orłówka Protective Unit with an area of 5073.21 ha, out of which 4784.46 ha is under strict protection, 235.48 ha under active protection and 53.27 ha under landscape protection. The area is subdivided into two protective districts : Sierchanowo (area of 2303,24 ha) and Dziedzinka (area of 2769.97 ha Hwoźna Protective Unit with an area of 5169,50 ha, out of which 941.64 ha is under strict protection, 4203.68 ha is under active protection, and 24.18 ha is under landscape protection. The area is subdivided into four protective districts : Cupryki (area of 1243.17 ha), Gruszki (area of 1426,52 ha), Masiewo (area of 1120.29 ha) and Zamosze (area of 1379.52 ha). The European bison Breeding Center with an area of 274,56 ha is under landscape protection. The area comprises three breeding reserves and a European bison Show Reserve. The duties of the personnel of European bison Breeding Center covers the breeding of European bison inhabiting in all of the Polish part of the Białowieża Forest. The idea of creating a national park locally is about 200 years old. However, the genuine protection efforts which are being continued today are centuries older. Often called the last untouched wilderness of Europe, the Białowieża National Park is the only one of its kind among the 23 national parks of Poland. Its inner zone belongs to the realm of old-growth forest which has been living without much human intervention for almost 800 years. Only scientists can navigate the strictly protected area freely. Each group of tourists is limited to no more than 20 people, and the presence of an official guide is mandatory. Classic road tour leads through the southern part of the reserve area, totalling 4,747 hectares. The headquarters are located at the Białowieża village in the Museum of Nature and Forest of the Białowieża National Park. The complex, built in the 1960, occupies the place of the former palace of Polish King Augustus III, which was destroyed by the Soviet Army in July 1944. Above the roof of the museum, there is an observation tower available for tourists during the opening hours. The exhibition presents the local species of plants and animals shown through displays, but also through multimedia exhibits with the use of lighting and sound. Particularly commendable is the exhibit devoted to birds. Almost all living species in the region can be heard in audio recordings. Guides in foreign languages are available with additional fee. The waiting time for a group tour is no longer than 15 minutes. In almost every room of the museum there are computers with information on the subject in different languages. However, the tour-guides are also likely to repeat the same information for their listeners. All exhibits in the museum have been prepared professionally by scientists, with general public in mind, and therefore are recommended for visitors of all ages. At the turn of the 20th century during the Russian Partition of Poland a Palace Park (Polish: Park Pałacowy) was founded around the so-called Tsar's Palace in Białowieża. At the park, is a historic manor house from 1845 that has been refurbished. At present, it serves as the Centre for Nature Education.
Old, small chapel near small village. northeast of Poland.
A small chapel near the small village where I lived 30 years ago. Everything looks exactly as it was, even though it's been 30 years ...
Pictures and video: Kodak Easyshare Max Z990, sound: Zoom H4n.
Haapsalu, Estonia
Haapsalu, Estonia 28.8.2015
Haapsalu Loss / Linnus-Castle / Uuemõisa Mõis-Manor 28.8.2015.
Adventures in Podlaskie Voivodeship |Fascinating Poland
Podlaskie, a muliti-cultural region, is our favourite region in Poland in the Summer time. When walking along its old industrial district, we were immensely impressed by the scale of the former textile production. Due to its closeness to the Russian empire, Bialystok served as an important meeting point between the two powerful empires, the Prussians and the Russian. Upon this region, many European religion thrived in the shadow of the obvious political tension and military presences.
As a curious traveler, who likes to learn the importance of biological diversity, the best destination is the nearby primal forest, the home of the last Wild European bisons. We enjoyed a tour inside the national park, followed a Polish geologist, who study the vegetations in this region, under the twilight. Sadly, we never met any bison.
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Charków - cmentarzysko radzieckich czołgów
Charków - cmentarzysko radzieckich czołgów (foto: Pasza Itkin,
Charków to drugie co do wielkości miasto Ukrainy. Jest również jednym z największych
ośrodków przemysłowych. W czasach gdy Ukraina była radziecką republiką znajdowały się tam jedne z największych zakładów produkcji zbrojeniowej, lotniczej (Zakłady Antonowa) czy chemicznej. Na terenach Charkowa nadal istnieją miejsca, które przypominają o potędze tego miasta. Jednym z nich jest cmentarzysko czołgów w Zakładzie Remontowym Przemysłu Ciężkiego. Leżą tam wraki słynnych sowieckich
maszyn takich jak T-64, T-80 czy T-72. Do czasu rozpadu ZSRR zakład specjalizował
się w naprawie silników i optyki czołgów, przeprowadzając około 60 kapitalnych napraw
w miesiącu. |
Kharkiv - cemetery Soviet tanks (photo: Pasza Itkin,
Kharkiv is the second largest city of Ukraine. It is also one of the largest industrial centers. At a time when Ukraine was a Soviet republic, there were some of the biggest defense production, air (Antonov plants) or chemical. In the area of Kharkov there are still places that remind us of the power of the city. One of them is the graveyard of tanks in the Department of Heavy Industry Remontowe. There lie the wrecks of famous Soviet equipment, such as T-64, T-80 and T-72. Until the collapse of the USSR facility specializing in the repair of engines and optics tanks, carrying about 60 capitalize repairs a month. |
Kharkiv - Friedhof sowjetischer Panzer (Foto: Pasza Itkin,
Kharkiv ist die zweitgrößte Stadt der Ukraine. Es ist auch eines der größten Industriezentren. Zu einer Zeit, als die Ukraine eine Sowjetrepublik war, gab es einige der größten Produktions-Verteidigung, Luft (Antonov Pflanzen) oder chemische. Im Bereich von Charkow gibt es immer noch Orte, die uns von der Macht der Stadt zu erinnern. Einer von ihnen ist der Friedhof von Tanks in der Abteilung für Heavy Industry Remontowe. Dort liegen die Wracks der berühmten sowjetischen Ausrüstung, wie T-64, T-80 und T-72. Bis zum Zusammenbruch der UdSSR Anlage spezialisiert auf die Reparatur von Motoren und Optik Tanks, trägt etwa 60 kapitalisieren Reparaturen pro Monat. |
Харьков - кладбище советских танков (фото: П. Иткин,
Харьков является вторым по величине городом Украины. Он также является одним из крупнейших промышленных центров. В то время, когда Украина была советской республикой, были некоторые из самых больших оборонного производства, воздух (Антонов растений) или химической. В районе Харькова еще есть места, которые напоминают нам о власти города. Одним из них является кладбищем танков в отделе тяжелой промышленности Remontowe. Там покоятся обломки известного советского оборудования, таких как Т-64, Т-80 и Т-72. До распада СССР объект, специализирующийся на ремонте двигателей и оптика танков, перевозивший около 60 капитализировать ремонтов в месяц.
Lithuanian Jews
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Lithuania,was,historically,home,to,a,large,and,influential,Jewish,community,that,was,almost,entirely,eliminated,during,the,Holocaust,see,The,Holocaust,in,Lithuania,Before,World,War,II,,the,Lithuanian,Jewish,population,was,some,160,000,,about,7%,of,the,total,population3,Vilnius,then,Wilno,in,the,Second,Polish,Republic,had,a,Jewish,community,of,nearly,100,000,,about,45%,of,the,citys,total,population4,There,were,over,110,synagogues,and,10,yeshivas,in,Vilnius,alone5,About,2,000,Jews,were,counted,in,Lithuania,during,the,2005,census6
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Lithuania: US General Hodges oversees NATO military drills in Rukla
The Commander of the U.S. Army Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges visited the training area of the NATO military drills in Rukla, Thursday.
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GEORGY ZHUKOV - WikiVidi Documentary
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Soviet Red Army officer who became Chief of General Staff, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Minister of Defence and a member of the Politburo. During World War II he participated in multiple battles, ultimately commanding the 1st Belorussian Front in the Battle of Berlin, which resulted in the defeat of Nazi Germany, and the end of the War in Europe. In recognition of Zhukov's role in World War II, he was chosen to personally take the German Instrument of Surrender and to inspect the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945....
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00:13:11: Post-war service under Stalin
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PODLASKIE - Narew, Biebrza, Suwalszczyzna, Puszcza Białowieska, Augustów, Grabarka, Święta Woda
Nazwa Podlasie do dziś nie jest jednoznaczna. Najprawdopodobniejsze są dwie wersje (wg wiki):
Pierwsza mówi o tym, że nazwa wzięła swój początek od olbrzymich niegdyś, a dziś tylko częściowo zachowanych, puszcz i kniei. Tezę tę potwierdza wielu historyków, m.in. polski językoznawca Bogumił Samuel Linde w swoim monumentalnym Słowniku języka polskiego. W haśle Podlasie, Podlasze, Polesie wywodził pochodzenie nazwy od położenia: jako kraj bliski lasów podlesiem nazywany, albo, że nazwa Podlasia może pochodzić od gęstych lasów. Podobnie twierdzi współczesna regionalistka i folklorystka Podlasia – Anna Natalia Kozera.
Według drugiej Podlasie wzięło swą nazwę od Lachów, czyli Polaków zamieszkujących te tereny. Twierdził tak m.in. znawca etnografii Podlasia i etymologii – Zygmunt Gloger, który uważał, że nazwa Podlasie nie powstała od lasów, jak nazwa Polesie, ale od Lachów nazwa plemienia, przy granicy, których ciągnęło się Podlasie. Było to zatem pod-lasze .... W tym przekonaniu popierał Glogera, także inny znany ówczesny regionalista Józef Mikulski, który pisał: Mazurzy zwartą ławą osiedli ziemie od środkowej Wisły do Liwca. Za Liwcem natomiast przemieszali się z ludnością ruską, która z czasem, naturalnym biegiem rzeczy uległa ich kulturze, przyjmując kulturę polską jako swoją. Jednak kraj leżący za Liwcem długi czas zwano Podlasze tj. kraj pod Lachami, co z czasem z mazurska przerobiono na Podlasie.
Film promocyjny Województwa Podlaskiego z przełomu 2004-2005 r.
tytuł - PODLASKIE ZAPRASZA
czas - 22 min
scenariusz - Jerzy Zińczuk
oprawa muzyczna - Bogdan Kasperuk
zdjęcia - S. Piszczatowski, M. Zińczuk, J. Janik, J. Zińczuk
dżwięk i montaż - Jerzy Zińczuk
reżyseria - Jerzy Zińczuk
produkcja - Jerzy Zińczuk / PSF
Realizacja została sfinansowana przez Urząd Marszałkowski Województwa Podlaskiego
Which way to Podlasie ...
Którędy na Podlasie ...
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Poland in World War II | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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 ...
Białystok. Czy pogrom Żydów w 1906 r. był rosyjską prowokacją?
Was 1906 pogrom of Jews a result of Russian collusion?
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