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Julian Leszczyński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuljan lɛˈʂtʂɨj̃skʲi]; 8 January 1889 – 20 August 1939), [1] also known by pseudonym Leński, was a Polish communist political activist, publicist, and leader of the Stalinist faction in the Communist Party of Poland (KPP).
Prisoners of war, [4] as well as many Polish intellectuals and community leaders, were murdered. Many of the crimes were carried out, with official approval, by the so-called " Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz ", or paramilitary organizations of ethnic Germans with previously Polish citizenship.
The region also borders Slovakia, along the Polom mountain range and Jablunkov Pass at Mosty u Jablunkova, and Moravia across the rivers Ostravice and Oder. Geomorphologically, the area of Cieszyn Silesia is located in the Western Carpathians and extends into the mesoregions: Ostrava Basin; Moravian-Silesian Foothills; Moravian-Silesian Beskids
Polish graveyard of 4th police SS regiment and UPA victims in Palikrowy Meadow near village, where 365 Poles were murdered by 4th police SS regiment and UPA. The Palikrowy massacre was a war crime committed by 4th police SS-regiment made up of Ukrainian soldiers of the SS-Galizien who were removed from the SS-Galizien at the time of the massacre and placed under German police command, [1 ...
American Friends of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a U.S. based non-profit organization supporting the foundation of the museum. [18] On 17 June 2009, the museum launched the Virtual Shtetl portal, which collects and provides access to essential information about Jewish life in Poland before and after the Holocaust in Poland. The ...