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Gabriel Regnier, a French prisoner, describes his failed attempt with a French companion on 23 March 1942. A Polish civilian worker at the farm had helped them by hiding civilian clothes for them. It was a dark night and they successfully reached a freight train that was switching cars at the station that was close to the farm.
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 ...
Animal welfare organizations are concerned with the health, safety and psychological wellness of individual animals. These organizations include animal rescue groups and wildlife rehabilitation centers, which care for animals in distress and sanctuaries, where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives.
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.
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.
The Carthusian monks had the nearby woodlands cleared out, and peasants from the neighbouring Duchy of Pomerania were encouraged to settle and farm in the newly cleared areas. During the course of the Protestant Reformation Kartuzy and its surrounding area were incorporated into the possessions of Cistercian Oliwa Abbey in 1565.
A State Agricultural Farm (Polish: Państwowe Gospodarstwo Rolne [paj̃ˈstfɔvɛ gɔspɔˈdarstfɔ ˈrɔlnɛ];, PGR) was a form of collective farming in the Polish People's Republic, similar to Soviet sovkhoz and to the East German Volkseigenes Gut. They were created in 1949 as a form of socialist ownership of agricultural land by the government.
The Standardbred Retirement Foundation in Upper Freehold relies on donations to care for and find homes for old harness racehorses.