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Work camps were established in a wide area in and around Poznań. These included; Working Camp 4, Ostrowo [6] Krotoszyn d14; [7] Kuhndorf [8] [9] (possibly located at or near Sołacki Park renamed 'Kuhndorfpark' during the occupation in the Niestachów, Jeżyce area of north west Poznań); XXI-D/Z in Ostrzeszów June–December 1943 [10] [11 ...
The German labor office in Poznań demanded that children as young as 12 register for work, but it is known that even ten-year-old children were forced to work. [48] Spring: Komitet Niesienia Pomocy joined the Union of Armed Struggle. [33] May: The Polish resistance movement facilitated escapes of British prisoners of war from the Stalag XXI-D ...
The 1956 Poznań protests, also known as Poznań June (Polish: Poznański Czerwiec), were the first of several massive protests against the communist government of the Polish People's Republic. Demonstrations by workers demanding better working conditions began on 28 June 1956 at Poznań 's Cegielski Factories and were met with violent repression.
Poznań was the seat the German Central Bureau for Resettlement (UWZ, Umwandererzentralstelle), a special German institution established in November 1939 to coordinate the expulsion of Poles from occupied Polish territories. [23] Poznań's Jewish population, which had numbered 2,000 in 1939, [24] was largely murdered in the Holocaust.
The Greater Poland uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska uprising of 1918–1919 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918–1919 roku; German: Großpolnischer Aufstand) or Poznań War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region (German: Grand Duchy of Posen or Provinz Posen) against German rule.
Fort VII, officially Konzentrationslager Posen (renamed later), was a Nazi German death camp set up in Poznań in German-occupied Poland during World War II, located in one of the 19th-century forts circling the city. According to different estimates, between 4,500 and 20,000 people, mostly Poles from Poznań and the surrounding region, died ...
Over the past 40 years, memorials to America's 20th century wars have sprung up across Washington, D.C., with one conspicuous omission: There was no national memorial to veterans of World War I in ...
Polish and Lithuanian war cemetery in Širvintos (Polish–Lithuanian War) Polish Home Army quarter in Skurbutėnai; Polish military quarter in Švenčionėliai (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921; around 500 soldiers) Polish military quarter in Trakai (Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921; over 100 soldiers)