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Čeština: Kostel v centrální části města Strzelin, Polsko English: Exaltation of the Holy Cross church in Strzelin, Poland This is a photo of a monument in Poland identified by the ID: PL-596980 .
It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) south of Strzelin, and 41 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of the regional capital Wrocław (formerly called Breslau). Gęsiniec was settled in 1750 by Hussites , whose religious faith was based on the writings of Jan Hus (ca. 1369–1415), a Czech religious reformer and priest who was burnt at the stake as ...
Strzelin [ˈstʂɛlʲin] (German: Strehlen, [2] Czech: Střelín) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. [3] It is located on the Oława river , a tributary of the Oder , about 39 kilometres (24 miles) south of the region's capital Wrocław .
The destruction of the totalitarian system in Poland allowed another direction in Polish historical studies fuelled by the previous studies published under the Communist regime. [18] One of the first such studies was undertaken by J. Turowski and Władysław Siemaszko in 1990, based on 350 eyewitness accounts from veterans of the Polish Home ...
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In August 1943, the Polish village of Gaj, near Kovel, was burned and some 600 people were massacred, and 438 people were killed, including 246 children, in Ostrówki. In July 1943, a total of 520 Polish villages were attacked, killing 10,000–11,000 Poles.
It is unclear how the word strzyga was adapted by the Polish people, though it might have been through the Balkan peoples. The term strzyga could also sometimes mean a vampire or upiór . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] After the 18th century, there was a distinction between strzyga and upiór; the first one was more connected to witchcraft, while the latter ...
On Sunday, 11 July 1943, OUN-UPA death squads, aided by local Ukrainian peasants, simultaneously attacked at least 99 Polish settlements within Wołyń Province of the German-occupied prewar Second Polish Republic. [1] It was a well-orchestrated attack on people gathered at Catholic churches for Sunday mass.