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in the Classroom
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Poland
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FOR THE CHILDREN |
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Distinguished Polish Personalities
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
Walery Goetel, geologist, ecologist, conservationist
Jan Karski, wartime courier and hero
A note by Michael Szporer
Ryszard Kapuscinski, Third World journalist extraordinary
Ryszard Kapuscinki: From Reporting to Literature
Idi Amin Dada and African Dictatorships
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Military Genius
Tadeusz Kosciuszko Gallery -- Monuments
Tadeusz Kosciuszko Gallery -- Monuments - Slideshow
Tadeusz Kosciuszko Gallery - Portraits
Tadeusz Kosciuszko Gallery - Portraits - Slideshow
Tadeusz Kosciuszko Gallery - Historical Paintings
Kosciuszko's victory at Raclawice
The Military Genius of Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Tadeusz Kosciuszko: A Polish Son of Liberty
Kosciuszko and West Point
Rafal Lemkin and Genocide
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
Jan Matejko, Painter and Patriot
Jan Matejko, Fostering Polish Nationalism
Understanding Matejko'sThe Battle of Grunwald
Czeslaw Milosz, poet and Nobel laurate
Avantgarde & Classicism
Czeslaw Milosz: Catastrophism
Czeslaw Milosz: Rescuing poetry
Czeslaw Milosz: Campo di Fiori
Czeslaw Milosz: Triumphal Poems
Czeslaw Milosz: "Ars Poetica"
Czeslaw Milosz: About Emigration
Czeslaw Milosz: Polish Character
Czeslaw Milosz: Milosz - the Moralist
Czeslaw Milosz: Milosz - the Translator
Czeslaw Milosz: The Socrealism
Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Patriot and Piano Virtuoso
Time-line
Paderewski: Sensational Pianist
Patriot, Composer, Piano Virtuoso, Philanthorpist, Statesman
Kazimierz Pulaski: Father of American Cavalry
Kazimierz Pulaski Gallery: Monuments
Kazimierz Pulaski Gallery of Paintings
The Deeds of Kazimierz Pulaski
Casimir Pulaski Commemorative Stamp
Casimir Pulaski 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
Wladyslaw Reymont: 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 Rózewicz: 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
Karol Szymanowski, a Leading Composer for the Stage
Karol Szymanowski, A Leading Composer of the Modern Music Theater
Wislawa Szymborska, the Mozart of Poetry
Poem: Some Like Poetry
Delightful Inventiveness, Prodigious Imagination
The Search for the Word: a guided tour of the exhibition
The Search for the Word: The Exhibition
Stanislaw Wyspianski, Painter and Formost Dramatist
Time-line
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
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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 . . ."
"For those 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
The Living Were Dying - Tadeusz Rózewicz
Still - Wislawa Szymborska
Campo dei Fiori - Czeslaw Milosz
Here Too as in Jerusalem - Mieczyslaw Jastrun
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Arts & Culture
Architecture
Cinema/Film
General
Databases
Essays
Cinema Personalities
Holland,
Agnieszka
Janusz Kaminski
Kieslowski,
Krzysztof
Polanski,
Roman
Wajda,
Andrzej
Controversial potrayals of Poland
Uprising
Polish Films
Ashes
and Diamonds
Fever
Lotna
Kanal
Korczak
Pan
Tadeusz
The
Pianist
Potop
(The
Deluge)
Quo
Vadis
Promised
Land
With
Fire and Sword
Wesele
(The Wedding)
Culinary
Arts
Cultural
Events
Dance
Folk
Arts and Customs
Bookstores,
etc.
General
Box
Making
Folk
Costumes
Folkdancing
Szopki
(Christmas Cribs)
Wood
Carving
Woodcuts
Wycinanki
Icons
of Poland
Language
Dictionaries
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The
Languages of Poland
The
Polish Language
Slavic Languages
Learning Polish
Academic
Year in Poland
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Schools in Poland
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Schools in the U.S.
Video
and CD-based learning
Web-based
learning
Literature
Databases
History
of Polish Literature
Bookstores
Virtual
Libraries
Polonian
Authors
General
Bukowski,
Anthony
Hoffman,
Ewa
Pietrzyk,
Leslie
Rybczynski,
Witold
Strempek Shea,
Suzanne
Zelazny, Roger
Fairy
Tales
The Dragon of the
Wawel Hill
Janosik who robbed the
rich and gave to the poor
Jurata, the Queen of
the Baltic Sea
The Sleeping
Knights
Lech and the
White Eagle
Legends about the Linden Tree
The Trumpeter
of Krakow
The Mermaid
of the Vistula
Queen Wanda
who wouldn't marry a German
How the Pussy Willow
Got Its Fur
St. John's night
The Origins of the
Piast Dynasty
Poetry
General
Hymns
& Anthems
General
Bogurodzica
Boze,
cos Polske
Boze
Ojcze, twoje dzieci
Czerwone
Maki Na Monte Cassino
Gaude,
Mater Polonia
Hymn
do milosci ojczyzny
Kiedy
ranne wstaja zorze
Mazurek
Dabrowskiego
Nie
opuszczaj nas
Rota
Z
dymem pozarow
Zeby
Polska byla Polska
Old
Polish Literature
Middle Ages
Religious
Poetry
Secular
Poetry
Renaissance
Janicjusz,
Klemens
Kochanowski,
Jan
Baroque
Naborowski,
Daniel
Szarzynski,
Mikolaj Sep
Baczynski
Baranczak
Bialoszewski
Herbert
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Karpowicz
Lipska
Mickiewicz
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Milosz
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Norwid
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Poswiatowska
Różewicz
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Słowacki
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Prose
Stachura
Szymborska
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Wat
Wyspianski,
Stanislaw
Biographies,
etc.
Paintings
etc.
Works
Wesele
(The Wedding)
Zagajewski
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Prose
Andrzejewski
Chwin
Conrad
Gombrowicz
Jasienski
Kapuscinski
Lem
Lewkowicz
Pilch
Prus
Reymont
Schultz
Sienkiewicz
biographies, etc.
texts
Stachura
Tokarczuk
Witkacy
Wittlin
Zeromski
Playwrights
Glowacki
Gombrowicz
Iredynski
Jasienski
Mickiewicz
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Różewicz
Biography,
etc.
Poems
Witkacy
Wyspianski
Biographies, etc.
Paintings
Works
Wesele
(The Wedding)
Music
Musical Instruments
General
Hymns
& Anthems
General
Bogurodzica
Boże,
co¶ Polskę
Boże
Ojcze, twoje dzieci
Czerwone
Maki na Monte Cassino
Gaude,
Mater Polonia
Hymn
do miło¶ci ojczyzny
Kiedy
ranne wstaj± zorze
Mazurek
D±browskiego
Nie
opuszczaj nas
Rota
Z
dymem pożarów
Żeby
Polska była Polsk±
Early
Music
Chopin
Gomolka
Gorecki
Kilar
Lutoslawski
Moniuszko
Biographies
Compositions
Halka
The
Haunted Manor (Straszny Dwor)
Oginski
Paderewski
Panufnik
Penderecki
Biographies,
etc.
Compositions
Polish
Requiem
St.
Luke Passion
Threnody
Ptaszynska
Rubinstein
Serocki
Szpilman
Szymanowski
Urbaniak
Wieniawski
Visual Arts
Painting
Collections
on the Web
Contemporary
Art
Virtual
Galleries
Performers
online
Performance
Artists
Art
Addresses
Historical Overviews
Individual
Artists
Ajdukiewicz, Tadeusz
Axentowicz, Teodor
Baciarelli, Marcello
Bellotto, Bernardo
Berlewi, Henryk
Bilinska-Bohdanowicza, Anna
Boznanska, Olga
Brandt, Jozef
Brodowski, Antoni
Chelmonski, Jozef
Chmielowski, Adam
Chwistek, Leon
Ciecierski, Tomasz
Cwenarski, Waldemar
Cybis, Boleslaw
Cybis, Jan
Czachórski, Wladyslaw
Czechowicz, Szymon
Debicki, Stanislaw
Dolabella Tommaso
Eibisch, Eugeniusz
Falat, Julian
Filipkiewicz, Stefan
Gerson, Wojciech
Gierymski, Maksymilian
Gottlieb, Maurycy
Grottger, Artur
Gryglewski, Aleksander
Gwozdecki, Gustaw
Hiller, Karol
Hoffman, Vlastimil
Hrynkowski, Jan
Kanelba, Rajmund
Kaplinski, Leon
Kober, Marcin
Kossak, Jerzy
Kossak, Juliusz
Kossak, Wojciech
Kotsis, Aleksander
Kramsztyk, Roman
Krcha, Emil
Krzyzanowski, Konrad
Kuntze-Konicz, Tadeusz
Kwiatkowski, Teofil
Lange, Antoni
Laveaux, Ludwik de
Loeffler, Leopold
Makowski, Tadeusz
Malczewski, Jacek
Malecki, Wladyslaw
Matejko, Jan
Mehoffer, Józef
Menkes, Zygmunt
Michalowski, Piotr
Mierzejewski, Jacek
Norblin, Jan Piotr
Orlowski, Alexander
Pankiewicz, Jozef
Pautsch, Fryderyk
Plersch, Jan Bogumil
Podkowinski, Wladyslaw
Pronaszko, Andrzej
Pronaszko, Zbigniew
Pruszkowski, Tadeusz
Rodakowski, Henryk
Rustem, Jan
Ruszczyc, Ferdynand
Rybkowski, Tadeusz
Rzepinski, Czeslaw
Schultz, Daniel
Setkowicz, Adam
Sidorowicz, Zygmunt
Siemiradzki, Henryk
Simmler, Jozef
Smuglewicz, Franciszek
Sobocki, Leszek
Stabrowski, Kazimierz
Stattler, Wojciech Korneli
Stazewski, Henryk
Strobel, Bartholomäus
Stryjenska, Zofia
Studnicki, Juliusz
Suchodolski, January
Tetmajer, Wlodzimierz
Tricius, Jan
Waliszewski, Zygmunt
Weiss, Wojciech
Wierusz-Kowalski
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacyz
Wolff, Jerzy
Wroblewski, Andrzej
Wyczólkowski, Leon
Wyspianski, Stanislaw
Zaleski, Marcin
Movements/Styles
Mloda Polaska(Young Poland)
Art Deco
Post WWII
Social Realism
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Critical Essays
Gallery
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Cieslewicz, Roman
Czeczot, Andrzej
Czerniawski, Jerzy
Drewinski, Lex
Eidrigevicius, Stasys
Fangor, Wojciech
Górka, Wiktor
Gorowski, Mieczyslaw
Kalarus, Roman
Lenica, Jan
Mlodozeniec, Jan
Olbinski, Rafal
Pagowski, Andrzej
Pluta, Julian
Sadowski, Wiktor
Sawka, Jan
Starowieyski, Franciszek
Swierzy, Waldemar
Tomaszewski, Henryk
Trepkowski, Tadeusz
Urbaniec, Maciej
Walkuski, Wieslaw
Wasilewski, Mieczyslaw
Zamecznik, Wojciech
Sculpture
Historical Outlines
Sculptors- Chronological Listing
Sculptors- Alphabetical Listing
Abakanowicz, Magdalena
Balka Miroslaw
Bednarski, Krzysztof
Berdyszak, Jan
Berés, Jerzy
Biegas, Boleslaw
Chlanda, Marek
Dunikowski, Ksawery
Hasior, Wladyslaw
Jarnuszkiewicz, Jerzy
Kobro, Katarzyna
Kowalski, Grzegorz
Laszczka, Konstanty
Mitoraj, Igor
Monaldi, Jakub
Sosnowski, Tomasz Oskar
Szapoczników, Alina
Szczepkowski, Jan
Tatarkiewicz, Józef Jakub
Wittig, Edward
Zemla, Gustav
Theater
Databases
Essays
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Mickiewicz
Biographies,
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Rozewicz
Biography,
etc.
Poems
Witkacy
Wyspianski
Biographies, etc.
Paintings
Works
Wesele
(The Wedding)
Gardzienice
Theater Personalities
Grotowski,
Jerzy
Traditions
- Xmas/Easter
Wedding Traditions
Virtual
Galleries
Virtual
Galleries
Performers
online
Performance
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History
Books
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Length Overviews
Constitutional
History
Overview
and Commentary
Constitution
of May 3, 1791
Interim
Constitution of February 20, 1919
Constitution
of March 17, 1921
Amendments
of August 2, 1926
Constitution
of April 23, 1935
Interim
Constitution of February 19, 1947
Constitution
of July 22, 1952
Interim
Constitution of October 17, 1992
Constitution
of April 2, 1997
Polonian
History
General
Regional
History
of Religious Denominations
Polish Catholic National Church
Protestantism
Roman
Catholicism
Judaica: The History of Polish Jews
Poland's
Kings
Heads
of State, Government, etc.
Notable Poles
Beck,
Jozef
Chopin,
Fryderyk
Copernicus,
Nicholas
Curie,
Maria Sklodowska
Goetel,
Walery
Gorecki,
Henryk Mikolaj
Gronkiewicz-Waltz,
Hanna
Grotowski,
Jerzy
Haller,
Jozef
Herbert,
Zbigniew
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Holland,
Agnieszka
John Paul II
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
Karski,
Jan
Kieslowski,
Krzysztof
Kilar,
Wojciech
Korczak,
Janusz
Kolakowski,
Leszek
Kosciuszko,
Tadeusz
Ryszard Kuklinski
Kwasniewski,
Aleksander
Lemkin,
Rafal
Lutoslawski,
Witold
Luxemburg, Rosa
Mickiewicz,
Adam
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Mikolajczyk,
Stanislaw
Milosz,
Czeslaw
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Moniuszko,
Stanislaw
Biographies
Compositions
Halka
The
Haunted Manor (Straszny Dwor)
Oginski,
Michal Kleofas
Paderewski,
Ignacy
Penderecki,
Krzysztof
Biographies,
etc.
Compositions
Polish
Requiem
St.
Luke Passion
Threnody
Pilsudski,
Jozef
Polanski,
Roman
Poniatowski,
Jozef
Pulaski,
Kazimierz
Reymont,
Wladyslaw
Rozewicz,
Tadeusz
Biography,
etc.
Poems
Rubinstein,
Artur
Schulz, Bruno
Sendler,
Irena
Sforza,
Bona
Sienkiewicz,
Henryk
Biographies, etc.
Texts
Slowacki,
Juliusz
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Prose
Stachura,
Edward
Strzelecki, Pawel Edmund
Szymanowski,
Karol
Szymborska,
Wislawa
Biographies,
etc.
Poems
Wajda,
Andrzej
Walesa,
Lech
Wieniawski,
Henry
Witkiewicz,
Stanislaw Ignacy
Wyspianski,
Stanislaw
Biographies,
etc.
Painting
Works
Wesele
(The Wedding)
Wojtyla,
Karol
Notable
Polonians
Karge,
Joseph
Kosciuszko,
Tadeusz
Mikulski,
Barbara A.
Modeski ,
Ralph
Muskie,
Edmund S.
Paderewski,
Ignacy
Pipes,
Richard
Pulaski,
Kazimierz
Ulam,
Adam
Urban,
Matt
Reading
and Mailing Lists
Early
Middle Ages
Jagiellonian Era
The
Noble Republic
The
Period of Partitions
The
Napolenic Interlude
WWI
The Polish-Soviet War, 1919-1920
Interwar
Period
WWII
Overview
Enigma
Machine - 1939
German
Invasion - 1939
Soviet Invasion - 1939
Escape
Routes - 1939-1940
Army in
France - 1939-1940
Polish
Navy - 1939-1945
Siberic
Gehenna - 1939-1942
Norwegian Campaign
- 1945
Katyn
Forest Massacre - 1940
Battle
of Britain - 1940
German
Occupation: 1939-1945
AK: The Home Army:
1939 - 1945
Interethnic
Strife: 1939-1945
Jedwabne
Koniuchy
Polish-Ukrainian
German
Death Camps: 1940-1945
Auschwitz
- Birkenau
Majdanek
Treblinka
The
Lodz Ghetto: 1940-1944
The
WWII Warsaw Ghetto: 1940-1943
Polish Government Documents 1942-1944
Zegota: Rescue of Jews
1942-1944
Warsaw
Uprising - 1944
Polish
Second Corps: 1943-1945
Battle
of Monte Cassino - 1944
Battle
of the Falaise Pocket - 1944
The
Diplomatic Front
The
Aftermath
The
Years under Socialism
The Third Republic
Accession
to NATO
Accession
to European Union
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Science and Health
Archaeology
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Mathematics
Banach, Stefan
Banachiewicz, Tadeusz
Brozek, Jan
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Janiszewski, Zygmunt
Kuratowski, Kazimierz
Mertens, Franciszek
Rejewski, Marian
Sierpinski, Waclaw
Ulam, Stanislaw
Wazewski, Tadeusz
Zaremba, Stanislaw
Polish Mathematicians on Stamps
Medicine
Nobelists
Polish
Academy of Science
Sciences
Overview
Botany
Scientists
Copernicus,
Nicolaus
Curie,
Maria Sklodowska
Goetel,
Walery
Lukasiewicz,
Ignacy
Rajchman, Ludwik
Zoology
Social
Sciences
Philosophy
Sociology
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Rev. Czeslaw Michal Krysa
A Polish Christmas Eve: Traditions
and Recipes, Decorations and Song
1998, Lewiston, NY, CWB Press
Chapter 4
Vigil Supper Folk Art
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