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Distinguished Polish Personalities
Józef Bem: General; Polish and Hungarian Leader
Nicholas Copernicus: He who Moved the Earth
Nicolaus Copernicus: His Place in the History of Astronomy
When the Earth Moved: Copernicus and his Heliocentric System
Stamp
Walery Goetel: Geologist, Ecologist, Conservationist
Wladyslaw Hasior: Notable 20th Century Artist
Abandoned Banners: Wladyslaw Hasior (1928 - 1999)
Impudent Artist
Death of an Artist
Sculptures: The Firebirds
Sculptures: The Iron Organs
Poetic Meanings of Utilitarian Objects
Banners
Household Chapels Cycle
Assemblages
John Paul II: Pontiff - Karol Wojtyla
Jan Karski: Wartime Courier and Hero
A Note by Michael Szporer
Ryszard Kapuscinski: Third World Journalist Extraordinary
From Reporting to Literature
Idi Amin Dada and African Dictatorships
Janusz Korczak: Author, Educator and Hero
Tadeusz Kosciuszko: A Military Genius
Timeline
Kosciuszko's Victory at Raclawice
The Military Genius of Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Tadeusz Kosciuszko: A Polish Son of Liberty
Kosciuszko and West Point
Gallery of Monuments
Gallery of Monuments - Slideshow
Gallery of Portraits
Gallery of Portraits - Slideshow
Gallery of Historical Paintings
Ryszard Kuklinski: A Patriot of Courage and Conviction
Book Review: A Secret Life
Rafal Lemkin and Genocide
Jan Matejko: Painter and Patriot
Jan Matejko, Fostering Polish Nationalism
Understanding Matejko'sThe Battle of Grunwald
Adam Mickiewicz: a Cultural Icon
Adam Mickiewicz, Poet, Patriot and Prophet
Andrzej Wajda and the filming of Pan Tadeusz
The Storyline and Context of Andrzej Wajda's film Pan Tadeusz
Czeslaw Milosz: Poet and Nobel Laurate
Avantgarde & Classicism
Catastrophism
Rescuing Poetry
Campo di Fiori
Triumphal Poems
"Ars Poetica"
About Emigration
Polish Character
Milosz - The Moralist
Milosz - The Translator
The Socrealism
Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Patriot and Piano Virtuoso
Time-line
Paderewski: Sensational Pianist
Patriot, Composer, Piano Virtuoso, Philanthropist, Statesman
Kazimierz Pulaski: Father of American Cavalry
The Deeds of Kazimierz Pulaski
Gallery of Monuments
Gallery of Paintings
Commemorative Stamp
Commemorative Postal Card
Wladyslaw (Wladyslaw)
Reymont: Master of Descriptive Prose
Time-line
The Promised Land: Lódz was waking
Keen Observer and Master of Descriptive Prose
Strike! Adapting to the Industrial Revolution
Autobiographical Notes of the Nobel Laureate
Reymont in America
The Nobel Prize: A Bitter Irony
"The Promised Land:" Three comments
Wajda and the making and revising of The Promised Land
Wajda's use of Contrasts: Aesthetics and Style
The Knightly Ethos: Its Disintegration
Tadeusz Rozewicz: A Giant of Polish Postwar Literature
The Witnesses - Text and Subtext
Bruno Schulz: Creator of Dream-like Fiction
Bruno Schulz Timeline
Bruno Schulz and Psychoanalsis: The Images of Women in August
Irena Sendler: WWII Rescuer and Hero
Bona Sforza: Poland's Italian Queen
Poland's Italian Queen
Henryk Sienkiewicz: the Most Translated Author
Henryk Sienkiewicz and Quo Vadis
Letters from Africa (excerpts)
Forum Romanum (excerpts from Quo Vadis)
The Intricacies of Translation
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Yiddish Author and Nobelist
How the Singer Brothers Came to Be in America
Karol Szymanowski: a Leading Composer for the Stage
A Leading Composer of the Modern Music Theater
Wislawa Szymborska, the Mozart of Poetry
Poem: Some Like Poetry
Poem: The End and the Beginning
Delightful Inventiveness, Prodigious Imagination
Six October 1996 Warsaw Voice articles
In Buffalo: The Search for the Word: a guided tour of the exhibition
In Krakow: Wislawa Szymborska's Seeking the Word
Szymborska's Manuscripts
Stanislaw Wyspianski: Painter and Formost Dramatist
Timeline
Witkacy: S. I. Witkiewicz: Avant-garde Dramatist and Artist
Biography
Witkacy's Search for Self: An Introduction
Witkacy: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz 1885-1939
The Theater of Life or The Search for Self
Karol Wojtyla - John Paul II: Pontiff
Time-line
Monuments in Poland
Do not be afraid
Look to Home
Was the Pope Polish? Yes, Thank God
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The Warsaw Ghetto
Life and Death in the Ghetto established by the Germans
Introduction
Gallery 1
1938: The Jewish population of Warsaw
Gallery 2
"Blood was ... staining his white beard"
Death sentence for leaving illegally the Jewish residential district
"Every step a corpse"
"Mendele had bloody diarrhea"
Gallery 3
July 22, 1942: A massive "Resettlement" begins
"Now the selection . . ."
"Who looked around, got killed . . ."
"To all who volunteering for relocation - three kilos of bread..."
August. 3, 1942: Concealment of Ringelblum's Archive
September 8, 1942: After the Deportation of 400,000 people
January 19, 1943: Determination to Resist Deportation with Force
Poles, Citizens, Freedom's Soldiers
April 19, 1943: Orders from Himmler - Destroy the Ghetto
Gallery 4
"All ... were taken alive. The lives of none were spared"
"Jews were burnt to death . . ."
"Some swore . . ."
May 8, 1943: The uprising's leaders die by their own hand . . .
May 19, 1943: ". . . we succeed in destroying 56,065 Jews"
April 19, 1993: On the 50th anniversary
Poetry Room
Itzhak Katzenelson: I had a Dream
Tadeusz Rózewicz: The Living Were Dying
Wislawa Szymborska: Still
Czeslaw Milosz: Campo dei Fiori
Mieczyslaw Jastrun: Here Too as in Jerusalem
Surviving
Impediments to Survival
Exiting the Ghetto
Sheltering on the Aryan Side
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