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Wujek Coal Mine (Polish: Kopalnia Wujek, full name in Polish: Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego „Wujek”; German: Oheim [1]) is a coal mine in Katowice, Poland. It is widely known in Poland as the place of the massacre of striking miners in 1981 (most often referred to by the euphemism 'Pacification'), as well as being the site of a deadly mining ...
The 2009 Wujek-Śląsk mine blast occurred at the Wujek bituminous coal mine in Ruda Śląska, Poland on 18 September 2009. At least 20 miners were killed (12 died in coal mine, 8 in hospitals) and at least 37 more were hospitalised.
The Pacification of Wujek was a strike-breaking action by the Polish police and army at the Wujek Coal Mine in Katowice, Poland, culminating in the massacre of nine striking miners on December 16, 1981. It was part of a large-scale action aimed to break the Solidarity free trade union after the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981.
Wujek (literally "uncle," in Polish) can refer to: Wujek Coal Mine , a mine where 9 workers were killed during a famous 1981 strike Jakub Wujek , a 16th-century Polish Jesuit who translated the Bible into Polish
The final version of Wujek's Bible was ready in 1599, after corrections from a Jesuit commission, two years after Wujek's death in 1597. [2] [3] The Jakub Wujek Bible replaced the Leopolita's Bible (1561), and was in turn replaced by the Millennium Bible (1965). Some modern scholars tend to rank the first edition, from 1593/1594, over that from ...
Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski was born on 6 July 1923 in Kurów, [2] into a family of Polish gentry. [2] [3] He was the son of Wanda (née Zaremba) and Władysław Mieczysław Jaruzelski, a Czech-educated agronomist and volunteered soldier who fought in the war against Soviet Russia in 1920 [4] [5] and was raised on the family estate near Wysokie (in the vicinity of Białystok). [6]
Wujec in 2007. Henryk Wujec (25 December 1940 [1] – 15 August 2020) was a Polish politician who served as a member of the Sejm. [2]Wujec was born in Podlesie, Biłgoraj County.
Jakub Wujek (1541 – 27 April 1597) was a Polish Jesuit, religious writer, Doctor of Theology, Vice-Chancellor of the Vilnius Academy and translator of the Bible into Polish. He is well-known for his translation of the Bible into Polish: the Wujek Bible .