Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bodies in a Ditch. For Abraham Greenberg, a wiry, 24-year-old Polish Jew with prominent cheek bones, it had begun when he was 15 and lived in Warsaw with his mother, two sisters, a brother, his cobbler father. When the Germans came, Abraham fled to Russia. The Germans caught up with him again at Stalino, where he had found a job pushing coal cars in the mines. With 500 others, Abraham was marched away to a field outside town, ordered to stand in front of an anti-tank ditch and stripped of his clothes. He fainted, and fell...
...DRISCOLL St. Paul's Polish National Catholic Church Newark...
...plague sweeping Europe was dubbed by Italians the French sickness; by the French, the Italian sickness; by the Poles, the German sickness; by the Muscovites, the Polish sickness; and by the Turks, the Christian sickness...
State he had indeed approved a $90 million credit to Poland, at a time when his law firm was serving as counsel to a Polish supply mission...
Daughter of a substantial family of professional soldiers, Mathilde Carre was on the loose in Paris just after the German conquest. She was young, attractive, divorced, and she found it all too easy to have a good time. An ex-captain of the Polish army got her into the Réseau Interallié, an important network of the Franco-British underground. This Pole, a handsome man named Roman Czerniawsky, had been an intelligence officer. With Mathilde's brilliant help, he was soon feeding the British war office valuable information on the German order of battle. Mathilde...