Word: ledniciki
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...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...
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