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unusual facts about Tarnów


Wincenty Witos

He was stationed in Tarnów, Kraków and Krzesławice.


Arthur Arz von Straußenburg

At Gorlice-Tarnów he was gain to pay an outstanding role and was in command again at Grodek-Magierow and Brest-litowsk during the summer of 1915.

Ciężkowice

The town is located on regional road nr. 977, it also has a rail station (Bogoniowice - Ciężkowice), on a line which goes from Tarnów to the Slovakian border crossing at Leluchów.

Fritz Tarnow

After Adolf Hitler's rise to power in early 1933 and the dismantling of the trade unions, Tarnow was arrested on 2 May.

Hauptsturmführer

Among them are Josef Mengele, the infamous doctor assigned to Auschwitz; Klaus Barbie, Gestapo Chief of Lyon; Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's assistant; and Amon Göth, who was sentenced to death and hanged for committing mass murder during the liquidations of the ghettos at Tarnów and Krakow, the camp at Szebnie and the Plaszow camp, portrayed in the film Schindler's List.

Ignace Gelb

Born in Tarnów, Austria-Hungary (now Poland), he earned his PhD from the University of Rome in 1929, then went to the University of Chicago where he was a professor of Assyriology until his death.

Józef Kowalczyk

Kowalczyk was born on 28 August 1938 in the village of Jadowniki Mokre near Tarnów.

Junior Magazine

The program continued for two more years, under several new hosts, among them Toby Tarnow, Patrick Watson, Garrick Hagon, and Norman Welch.

Maria Vetulani de Nisau

After graduating from Orzeszkowa Gimnazjum in Tarnów, where she was a scouts member, in 1918 Vetulani bagan medical studies at Jagiellonian University.

Otto Schimek

He was reportedly buried in the cemetery in the village of Machowa, located halfway between Tarnów and Dębica.

PKP rail line 65

The main source was mines near Kryvyi Rih (then in the USSR, now in Ukraine), from where it was transported by rail via Medyka, Przemyśl, and Tarnów to Jaworzno Szczakowa.

SMS Augsburg

The German Army planned to seize the port as a distraction from the main Austro-German effort at Gorlice–Tarnów.

St. Mary Parish, Ware

The Polish immigrants of Ware at present number about 2700 people, for the most part, came from the Southern part of Poland, from the counties of Dabrowa, Tarnow, Rzeszow and Jaslo.

Wojciech Seweryn

Seweryn was born in Tarnów, graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Tarnów, and studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts.


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