Word: cracow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more of these girls speaks Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish-and all but one speak French. They know 33 countries on six continents, and thei. birthplaces girdle the globe: Shanghai, China-Santiago, Chile - Adelaide, Australia - Cambridge, Mass. - Juneau, Alaska -Charlotte, N.C.-Battle Creek, Mich. -Cracow, Poland...
Polish Miod. In front of the Castle of Kings in Cracow the Germans have demolished the statue of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who fought beside George Washington. In Warsaw the ghetto boundaries are squeezed tighter each month as more dead are carried out. Food supplies are now one-quarter of what they were before 1939. The Fukier wine cellar no longer has its miod (old fermented honey). The Germans have left only black crusts of bread for Poles and there is no longer bigos, brewed of wild game and cabbage...
...Cracow, when the German invasion of his country began, Lednicki, who was then a professor at both the Universities of Cracow and Brussels, was stranded by the German victory and occupation. But diplomatic help from a friendly Belgian government, plus the friendship of an Italian princess for Ledniciki's sister, made possible his transit to France and eventually to this country...
Ledniciki's fate in escaping the Nazis was fortunate, for sixty of his colleagues at Cracow were arrested and sent to a concentration camp at Orianenburg, where eighteen of the group perished. The profesor estimates that 80,000 Poles have been killed in a campaign which is aimed at what he calls "total extermination of the Polish nationality...
...Gothic hall of the Wawel, Cracow's royal palace, was made into a Bierstube, and the apartment of Queen Jadwiga (1371-1399) became...