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The rough guide to Poland
The essential handbook to your destination, with accounts of all the attractions. Includes reviews of where to stay, eat and drink for all budgets, as well as maps for all areas.
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Nowa Huta
Kinga Pozniak shows how the political, economic, and social upheavals in Nowa Huta, Poland have profoundly shaped the memory of these events in the minds of three generations of people who lived through them since the end of the Second World War.
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The ice saints
\"A young English woman arrives in the Polish People's Republic to visit her older sister, who married a Polish soldier after the war and disappeared into a life behind the Iron Curtain.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Krakow
Like most cities, Poland’s Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography. Before Warsaw, Krakow served as Poland’s capital for half a millennium. It has functioned as a cultural center, an industrial center, a center of learning, and home for millions of people. Behind all of this lies the city’s environment: its fauna and plant life, the Vistula River, the surrounding countryside rich with resources, and man-made change that has allowed the city to flourish. In Krakow: An Ecobiography, the contributors use the city as a lens to focus these social and natural intricacies to shed new light on one of Europe’s urban treasures. With chapters on pollution, water systems, the city’s natural network with the surrounding area, urban infrastructure, and more, Krakow demonstrates how much an environmental perspective can bring to the understanding of Poland’s history and the challenges presented by the heritage of the past.
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Uprooted
With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland.Uprootedexamines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants.
In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellent given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous scope of wartime destruction. The immediate consequences were an unstable society, an extremely high crime rate, rapid dilapidation of the building stock, and economic stagnation. This changed only after the city's authorities and a new intellectual elite provided Wroclaw with a Polish founding myth and reshaped the city's appearance to fit the postwar legend that it was an age-old Polish city. Thum also shows how the end of the Cold War and Poland's democratization triggered a public debate about Wroclaw's \"amputated memory.\" Rediscovering the German past, Wroclaw's Poles reinvented their city for the second time since World War II.
Uprootedtraces the complex historical process by which Wroclaw's new inhabitants revitalized their city and made it their own.
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Violent Space
For Nazi Germany, the ghetto was a conceptual tool used to
facilitate social and political exclusion and further their
anti-Jewish campaign. For the Jews who lived in them, the ghettos
became the center of their lives-even though they were also sites
of immense suffering.
Combining thorough historical research with an interdisciplinary
analysis of the relationship between space and violence,
Violent Space provides a unique insight into the history
and the socio-spatial topography of the Jewish ghetto in
German-occupied Warsaw (1939-1943). Using rare archival materials
and firsthand accounts, many of which have never been translated
into English, Anja Nowak traces out the trauma that the space of
the ghetto inflicted on its Jewish inhabitants, and how it
alienated, disoriented, and harmed them.
While the physical ghetto-its buildings, boundaries, and
streets-has been reabsorbed and redefined by modern-day Warsaw's
urban structure, Violent Space shows us that its presence
still lingers in the narratives of those who were forced into this
first phase of the Holocaust.
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Cultural traditions in Poland
Takes readers through a year of holidays and traditions in Poland. Many of the countrys holidays are based on Catholic holy daysbut traditional Polish customs, clothing, and food remain at the center of every occasion. Colorful images and clear text also help readers discover traditions and holidays unique to Poland, such as harvest festivals and family traditions.
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Occupation in the East
A nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of thousands of Germans, for whom Warsaw and Minsk became home, following their occupation by the Third Reich. Describes their unity in their self-conception as a \"master race.\" Examines how they engaged in acts of shocking brutality against Poles, Belarusians, and Jews, while social conditions became increasingly conducive to systematic mass murder.
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