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...Getting to meet all those people made it all worth it for me," said Rabindran. "I even managed to go see an old friend from Warsaw...

Author: By Javier V. Garcia, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Poland Hosts Harvard World Model U.N. | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

Menachem Begin came early to his Zionist zeal. He was born in a Polish town where his father was a leader in the Jewish community. After earning a law degree at the University of Warsaw, he became national commander of Betar, a right-wing paramilitary group that advocated the violent ouster of the British from Palestine. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he fled to Lithuania, leaving behind his parents, who died under the Nazis. A year later, he joined the anti-German Free Polish Army and served with a unit that was attached to British forces in Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Fighter, First and Last: Menachem Begin (1913-1992) | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

...until the very end -- perhaps even as he was shot dead by an SS officer while trying to escape to Switzerland in September 1943. A half-Jewish writer whose nom de plume was Pitigrilli converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Fascist spy; he had once lectured successfully in Warsaw, and his name, curiously, lives on as a Polish slang term for something suspect or obscene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horrors And Heroes | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...hoopla over Crazy is the centerpiece of a musical nostalgia binge that is sweeping over Broadway as it nears the end of a season in which the only truly new American musical, Nick & Nora, died quickly and the one new musical yet to come, Metro, is being imported from Warsaw with an all-Polish creative team and cast, albeit performing in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tap Dancing into Yesterday | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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