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The archive was founded in 1808. [1]A large portion of the archive was intentionally destroyed by Nazi Germany during World War II in 1939 and in 1944. In the aftermath of the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the archives were not only deliberately set ablaze, but the Nazi German troops also entered each of the nine accessible fire-proof vaults in the underground shelter and ...
The PGSA's Wigilia Award honors individuals or organizations that have made a significant contribution to Polish-American Genealogy. [6] An earlier recipient of the award was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for its "efforts to microfilm eastern European records in areas that once belonged to the Polish Commonwealth ...
In the United States, vital records are typically maintained at both the county [1] and state levels. [2] In the United Kingdom and numerous other countries vital records are recorded in the civil registry. In the United States, vital records are public and in most cases can be viewed by anyone in person at the governmental authority. [3]
The Black Death (Polish: Czarna śmierć), a major bubonic plague pandemic, is believed to have spread to Poland in 1351. [1] The region, along with the northern Pyrenees and Milan , [ 2 ] is often believed to have been minimally affected by the disease compared to other regions of Europe .
Listed below are the worst disasters in Poland's history, listed by death toll.This list excludes warfare, the Holocaust and intentional acts of destruction, but may include accidents in which the military, Polish or foreign, was involved (e.g. Osiecznica bus disaster - a collision between a Polish bus and a Soviet Army's truck).
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The PESEL system has been designed to cover five centuries. To distinguish people born in different centuries, numbers are added to the MM field: for birthdates between 1900 and 1999 – no change to MM field is made (see below) for other birthdates: 2000–2099 – month field number is increased by 20; 2100–2199 – month + 40
When the communist system collapsed, this figure was disputed by the Polish historian Czesław Łuczak who estimated that the total number of losses was 6.0 million; 3.0 million Jews, 2.0 million ethnic Poles, and 1.0 million Polish citizens who were members of the other ethnic groups whose losses were not included in the 1947 report on war ...