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  2. Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz - Wikipedia

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    The Banasiewicz family and the fugitives began constructing a bunker under the house in autumn of 1943, in preparation for the cold Polish winter. The new hiding area enabled the Banasiewiczs to rescue more people. In October 1943, on request of Salomon Ehrenfreud, Tadeusz smuggled out Bunia Stamhofer and Fela Szattner from the ghetto.

  3. Ulma family - Wikipedia

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    The Ulma family (Polish: Rodzina Ulmów) or Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with Seven Children (Polish: Józef i Wiktoria Ulmowie z siedmiorgiem Dzieci) were a Polish Catholic family in Markowa, Poland, during the Nazi German occupation in World War II who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust.

  4. Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust - Wikipedia

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    Death penalty for the rescue of Jews in occupied Poland Public announcement NOTICE Concerning: the Sheltering of Escaping Jews. There is a need for a reminder, that in accordance with Paragraph 3 of the decree of 15 October 1941, on the Limitation of Residence in General Government (page 595 of the GG Register) Jews leaving the Jewish Quarter without permission will incur the death penalty ...

  5. History of Poles in the United States - Wikipedia

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    He sailed to Poland and brought back farm laborers, who arrived in New Waverly, Texas, in May 1867. The agreement that Poles had with the plantation owners was that the farmers would be paid $90 (equivalent to $1,962 in 2023), $100 ($2180), and $110 ($2398) per year for three years of their labor, [ 43 ] while the owners provided them with a ...

  6. Polish Righteous Among the Nations - Wikipedia

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    Before World War II, Poland's Jewish community had numbered about 3,460,000 – about 9.7 percent of the country's total population. [5] Following the invasion of Poland, Germany's Nazi regime sent millions of deportees from every European country to the concentration and forced-labor camps set up in the General Government territory of occupied Poland and across the Polish areas annexed by ...

  7. Operation Cowboy - Wikipedia

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    They immediately planned an operation to rescue the horses. [1] A meeting between Patton and Podhajsky, about a rescue operation of the horses apparently took place. A source states that the meeting between Holters and Reed was not casual, but planned before 26 April. [2] The operation was not simple for several reasons.

  8. New farm sanctuary near Kingston gives neglected animals a ...

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    Rewild Refuge Farm Sanctuary, a new rescue farm that’s opened on a property tucked away off Highway 104 near Kingston, is home to any number of similar pastoral scenes on a given day.

  9. Nowy Sącz Ghetto - Wikipedia

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    The Nowy Sącz Ghetto known in German as Ghetto von Neu-Sandez and in Yiddish as צאנז (Tsanz; Zanc) or נײ-סאנץ (Nay-Sants; Nojzanc) was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of Polish Jews in the city of Nowy Sącz pronounced [ˈnɔvɨ ˈsɔnt͡ʂ] during the occupation of Poland (1939–45).