Word: breslau
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...Breslau was the largest city the boy had ever seen and it was full of Communist cops...
...next ten days all Mieczyslaw saw were the four walls of a Breslau jail. Then the cops sent him home to the farm where his mother lived with his stepfather. This was .last spring. The farmers and villagers greeted him with amusement...
...thousands of other Poles, to Kazakhstan, where they were put to work on a Soviet collective farm. Mieczyslaw's father wrote later that he had joined General Anders' Polish army. Years went by. The war ended and Mieczyslaw and his mother were moved to a village near Breslau, in the German lands east of the Oder-Neisse which the Russians had added to Communist Poland...
...read the news from Europe, Louis Finkelstein saw a double challenge: 1) thanks to Hitler's campaign against Jewish learning, the seminaries of Central and Eastern Europe (e.g., Berlin, Breslau, Vienna) were being wiped out of existence, and 2) the massacre of 6,000,000 European Jews was leaving U.S. Jewry, by simple default, the central Jewish community in the world. Jewish Theological Seminary has grown to meet those challenges as swiftly as possible. It now has 1,000 students enrolled in its four-year courses...
...Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) in Poland in 1948, a "group of French and Polish intellectuals" held the World Congress of Intellectuals. Many men of good will attended, to hear Russians like Alexander Fadeyev, secretary general of the Union of Soviet Writers, lambast America. Some, like British Scientist Julian Huxley, returned to complain in apparent bewilderment that the congress "preached war, not peace." The congress paid no attention, elected a permanent International Committee of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, and planned national branches to hold other peace meetings...