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1) 11 minutes
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Polish
Description
In a city in Warsaw, a sleazy film director "auditions" a married actress in a hotel room; a hot dog vendor goes about his work while concealing a dark secret; a motorcycle-driving drug runner trysts with a clients' wife; and a young man plots an ill-advised robbery.
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi...
3) Uprising
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Warsaw, Poland, 1940s: The Nazis are on the march, determined to wipe out the Jewish people of Europe. Teenage Vladka and her family are among the thousands of Jews forced to relocate behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, a cramped, oppressive space full of starvation, suffering, and death. When Vladka's family is deported to concentration camps, Vladka joins up with other young people in the ghetto who are part of the Jewish underground: a group...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphant tale of a Jewish WWII assassin turned Hollywood star. In 2005, Siena Hayes is Hollywood's latest It Girl, but she has her sights set higher than the screen, she wants to be behind the camera. So when Siena meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous actor from decades past, Siena sees her big break. Siena wants to direct Lena's biopic-but...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Peace of Thorn was a peace treaty formally ending the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War between allied Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on one side, and the Teutonic Knights on the other. It was signed on February 1, 1411 in Thorun, one of the southernmost cities of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights.The Peace of Thorn was not politically stable. It took two other brief wars to solve the territorial disputes between the powers. However, large...
7) The Vandals: A Captivating Guide to the Barbarians That Conquered the Roman Empire During the Tradit
Author
Language
English
Description
If you want to discover the captivating history of the Vandals, then keep reading...In the modern world, when one imagines a vandal, it's often a youth with a covered face drawing graffiti on a wall of a public building. And the act of deliberate defacement, destruction, or damage to public or private property is known as vandalism.This idea became an integral part of world culture with most people using it without knowing that this word is linked...
8) Pianoforte
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The world's most talented young pianists compete in the International Chopin Piano Competition, held every five years in Warsaw, Poland. A rare behind-the-scenes look at the triumphant highs and crushing lows of competition, Pianoforte is both a testament to the remarkable power of music and an intimate coming-of-age portrait.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)-- she was a little girl named Marie Sklodowska who dreamed of being a scientist--and was determined to make that dream come true."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
The drama of Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Russia is captured through the letters and diaries of Polish soldiers who fought with the French.
Napoleon's invasion of Russia cost hundreds of thousands lives and changed the course of history. Europe had never seen an army like the one gathering in Poland in 1812-half a million men in brilliant uniforms and shimmering helmets. Six months later, it was the ghost of an army, frozen and horrified, retreating...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
Español
Description
"Combinando de forma magistral la ficci̤n con datos hist̤ricos, Mario Escobar sit͠a al lector en la terrible situaci̤n de los jud̕os polacos y su lucha por la supervivencia en el Gueto de Varsovia. Varsovia, 1939 Agnieszka Ignaciuk y su hijo, Henryk, llegan al orfanato de Korczak poco antes de estallar la Segunda Guerra Mundial. All̕, conocen y son testigos de la vida y obra de Janusz Korczak, el heroico maestro y autor que dedica su vida a...
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Series
Language
English
Description
In autumn 1621, at a fortified camp near Khotyn (Chocim), in the Principality of Moldavia, allied Polish, Lithuanian and Cossack armies faced a large Ottoman army led by Sultan Osman II. It was the concluding act of a war that had started with the defeat of a Polish army at Cecora one year earlier. As such it was actually part of the longer conflict, waged over the Commonwealth's and the Ottoman's influence over Moldavia. Throughout the whole of September...
Author
Language
English
Description
The "hilarious and moving" true story of one of the Second World War's most unusual combatants-a 500-pound cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking brown bear (Scotsman).
Purchased as an orphaned cub by a Polish solider in Iran in 1942, and eventually adopted as a mascot by the Polish Army, Wojtek the Bear took on a more practical role as he grew, carrying heavy mortar rounds for the troops and going on to play his part as a fully enlisted "soldier"...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Frantic operations were conceived in late 1943 during World War II, making Soviet airfields accessible to long-range American aircraft based in Italy and later England. Yet Stalin had to be persuaded by the United States to let them use Frantic to drop supplies to the Poles after the Warsaw Uprising began in 1944.
On September 18, 1944, American B-17 Flying Fortresses, supported by fighter planes, dropped arms, ammunition, medical supplies, and...
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Series
Language
English
Description
This pictorial history presents a vivid and harrowing exploration of Jewish ghettos during the Nazi occupation of Poland during WWII.
Following the 1940 invasion of Poland, the Nazis established ghettos in cities and towns across the country with the initial aim of isolating the Jewish community. These closed sectors were referred to as Judischer Wohnbezirk or Wohngebiet der Juden (Jewish Quarters). Drawing on a wealth of historical images, this...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"A heartrending graphic memoir about a young Jewish girl's fight for survival in Nazi occupied Poland, The Girl Who Sang illustrates the power of a brother's love, the kindness of strangers, and finding hope when facing the unimaginable." -- Publisher annotation.
Author
Language
English
Description
Polish pilot Wladyslaw (Wladek) Gnys was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On this day, as Gnys' squadron took off near Kraków to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neubert attacked, killing the captain. Wladek, who barely survived himself, evaded the pursuing Stukas and went on to make the first Allied kills, while Neubert was credited with the first aerial kill of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Poland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about expanding its control on Europe. The Wehrmacht's attack on 1 September 1939 was followed by a Red Army invasion two weeks later. The people of Poland were then subjected to a terrifying campaign of murder, imprisonment and enslavement, which only increased as the war dragged on. Polish Catholics faced violence and...
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