Word: polander
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...they refuse to hide behind the mask of the innocent bystander donned by so many of their fellow citizens in Germany, Poland, France and elsewhere? That question sent an unlikely pair of friends, photographer Gay Block and children's book writer Malka Drucker, on a three-year journey to photograph and interview 105 rescuers from 10 countries. The often surprising answers are chronicled in their book, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust (Holmes & Meier; $29.95 soft cover), and in a photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, which runs until April...
...Crossroads of Five Civilizations: Ottoman Culture in Kamianets' Podil's'kyl--by Dariusz Kolodziejczyk, assistant professor, Warsaw University, Poland. Ukranian Research Institute, Seminar Room, 1583 Mass...
...main comment was `from this, you make aliving?' For him, comics were a meaninglessmedium--they didn't have comics in Poland in1915," Spiegelman said...
Though William Casey has been vilified for aspects of his tenure as CIA chief, there is no criticism of his instincts on Poland. "Basically, he had a quiet confidence that the communists couldn't hold on, especially in Poland," says former Congressman Edward Derwinski, a Polish-speaking expert on Eastern Europe who counseled the Administration and met with Casey frequently. "He was convinced the system was falling and doomed to collapse one way or another -- and Poland was the force that would lead to the dam breaking. He demanded a constant ((CIA)) focus on Eastern Europe. It wasn't noticed...
...Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II worked together to keep the banned union Solidarity alive and to break the Communist grip on Poland...