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3 unusual facts about Second Polish Republic


Mary Beck

In 1921-25 she studied at the Kolomyia city gymnasium in Kolomyia, Poland.

Pesach Stein

In 1936 Stein went to study in the Mir Yeshiva in Poland, where he formed a close relationship with the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel.

Republic of Ostrów

Although the Second Polish Republic was established in early November, the question of the Greater Poland region remained unresolved.


Andrés Sapelak

Sapelak was born in Ryszkowa Wola, Second Polish Republic in a Ukrainian family and ordained a priest on June 29, 1949 from the religious order Salesians of Saint John Bosco.

Armand Călinescu

The vast majority of sources reacting to the events made ample mention of Nazi backing for Călinescu's killers, with the exception of German media (the latter alleged that Polish and British political forces, as a means to pressure Romania into abandoning its neutrality — this version was supported by, among others, Hans Fritzsche).

Augustyn Träger

Augustyn Träger (born August 25, 1896 in Kalnica Dolna - died, April 22, 1957 in Bydgoszcz), codenames Sęk (Knot) and Tragarz (Moving Man), was a Polish-Austrian soldier during World War I and an intelligence officer in interwar and German-occupied Poland.

Battle of Murowana Oszmianka

The battle took place in and near the village of Murowana Oszmianka in Generalbezirk Litauen Reichskommissariat Ostland (modern Muravanaya Ashmyanka, Belarus, former Murowana Oszmianka, Second Polish Republic).

Battle of the Danzig Bay

The Polish Navy of the Second Polish Republic (1919–39) was prepared mostly as means of supporting naval communications with France in case of a war with the Soviet Union.

Bolesław Domański

Domański was a fighter for the rights of the Polish minority in Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, at the time a Prussian province on the border of Germany and Poland, as well as for the rights of Polish emigrants in the Ruhr area.

Borów, Łowicz County

The manor of the Grabski family, where the politicians of the Second Polish Republic Władysław Grabski, Stanisław Grabski and Zofia Kirkor-Kiedroniowa were born, is located there.

Elections in Poland

There were also elections in the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939), and the People's Republic of Poland, although most of the latter are considered to have been rigged.

Flag of Belarus

Between 1921 and 1939 the white-red-white flag was used by the Belarusian national movement in West Belarus (part of the Second Polish Republic), both by political organizations like the Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union or the Belarusian Christian Democracy, and non-political organizations like the Belarusian Schools Society.

History of the Jews during World War II

Poland, home of the largest Jewish community in the world before the war, had over 90% of its Jewish population, or about 3,000,000 Jews, murdered by the Nazis.

Irena Iłłakowicz

After returning to Second Polish Republic (which had regained independence in the aftermath of the First World War) she attended a school led by the Sisters of the Holy Heart of Jesus in Zbylitowska Góra.

Korets

In the Second Polish Republic, Korzec, as it was called, was part of Rowne County, Volhynian Voivodeship.

May 3rd Constitution Day

Festivities date back to the Duchy of Warsaw early in the 19th century, but it became an official holiday only in 1919 in the Second Polish Republic.

Nikodem Sulik

Transferred to Regional Office of Military Preparation in Toruń, he finally ended up in the Border Protection Corps (KOP) units located along eastern border of the Second Polish Republic.

Oil industry in Poland

The refinery purified oil extracted from rich fields of southern part of the Second Polish Republic (Gorlice, Boryslaw, Jasło, and Drohobych).

Ostroh

In the interbellum period, Ostrog belonged to County of Zdolbunow, Volhynian Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic.

Stowbtsy

In August 1924, while Stowbtsy was part of the Second Polish Republic, the town was the site of a Soviet-Polish border incident in which a company of Soviet raiders attacked its police station and government building in order to free two imprisoned communist activists (see Soviet raid on Stołpce).

Ukrainian Republic Capella

However, Koshetz received further funding from Petlura, and Koshetz recruited Ukrainians living in Poland to the Capella.

Voupa

Voupa (alternative spellings: Wołpa, Volpe, Wolpe, Wolp, Woupa or Voupa) is a town near Białystok, Poland, now in Western Belarus.

Wacław Sieroszewski

Under the Second Polish Republic, Sieroszewski was a senator, and president of the Union of Polish Writers (Związek Zawodowy Literatów Polskich, 1927-30) and the Polish Academy of Literature (Polska Akademia Literatury, 1933–1939).


see also

Lutheran Church, Lutsk

In 1929, Ignacy Mościcki, president of the Second Polish Republic, visited the church.

Olza

SS Olza, the first full-sea ship to be built at the Gdynia shipyard in the interwar years of the Second Polish Republic