Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

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Auschwitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau) concentration camp was a large network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas (areas that were annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II). Auschwitz, camp Auschwitz was the largest …

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Kraków – a brief history – part II.

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In 1596 King Zygmunt III. moved the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw, although Kraków remained the place of coronations and burials. The Swedish invasions, beginning in 1655, accelerated the decline; by the end of the following century the …

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Kraków – a brief history – part I.

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The first traces of Kraków’s existence are dated from around the 7th century. The earliest written record of the town dates from 966, when a Sephardic Jewish merchant from Cordova called Abraham ben Jacob (Ibrahim ibn Yaqub) visited the city …

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