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unusual facts about Sosnowiec


Stanisław Jaros

He was born into a working-class family in Zagórze (now a district of Sosnowiec), did not graduate from any schools, and was self-taught.


Ala Gertner

On October 28, 1940 she was ordered to report to the train station in nearby Sosnowiec, where she was taken to a Nazi labor camp in Geppersdorf (now Rzedziwojowice), a construction site where hundreds of Jewish men were forced laborers on the Reichsautobahn (now the E22 highway) and women worked in the kitchen and laundry.

Będzin

Będzin borders the cities of Sosnowiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Czeladź, Siemianowice Śląskie, and Wojkowice, as well as the village of Psary.

Kazimierz Mastalerz

Kazimierz Władysław Mastalerz (20 November 1894 in Czeladz or Sosnowiec – 1 September 1939 at Krojanty) was a Polish military commander of the 18th Pomeranian Cavalry Regiment.

Mountain Warehouse

It has grown to have over 150 stores in the UK as well as stores in Rathdowney and Dublin in Ireland, Parndorf in Austria, and Sosnowiec and Warsaw in Poland.

Rewolucyjni Mściciele

The group expanded from Łódź to many other towns in the Russian partition of Poland: Warsaw, Częstochowa, Kraków, Radom, Kielce, Sosnowiec, Będzin, Ostrów, Kalisz, Żyrardów and Zgierz.

Stanisław Jaros

The delegation consisted of several high-ranking officials, including Polish leader Władysław Gomułka, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, and the First Secretary of the local office of the Polish Communist Party, Edward Gierek (who himself was born in Sosnowiec’s district of Porąbka).

To "honor" Joseph Stalin's death, in 1953, Jaros planted a bomb under a transformer at the Joseph Stalin Coal Mine (formerly known as Renard Coal Mine) in Sosnowiec.

Władysław of Bytom

Władysław's extremely cautious politics radically changed: in the course of Polish-Bohemian War during the years 1345-1348 he stood at the side of the Polish Kingdom, especially after the unexpected victories in the Battles of Pogoń (now Sosnowiec) and Lelów.


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