POLISH FLASHCARDS from study guide
Tadeusz Rozewicz
"Pigtail"
what was "solidarity"?
"Solidarity": a grass root movement that started in Gdańsk during the strike in 1980; it became a labor union, and then a political party (in 1989)
Tadeusz Borowski
"This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"
czeslaw milosz
"you who wronged" nobel 1980
Magdalena Abakanowicz
(1930-2017) Agora: Chicago Grant Park BIG LEGS "Abakans" Weavings and sculptures Friends
Julita Wójcik
(born 1971) Flower Rainbow someone lit it on fire.... in 2015
Lech Wałęsa
(born in 1943): the face of the solidarity movement
elections were held but _______1______ became a president of Poland. Jaruzelski resigned after a year, and the presidential elections were held: then _____2________won.
1.General Jaruzelski 2.Lech Wałęsa June 4th 1989
Artur Żmijewsk
80064 "The Game of Tag" FILM MAKER
Żegota
Also known as the "Konrad Żegota Committee", was a codename for the Polish Council to Aid Jews, an underground organization of Polish resistance
Katarzyna Kozyra
Born in 1963 Animal Pyramid (1993) Blood Ties (1995) The Olympia (1996)
May 1v 2004
EU
Lech Wałęsa who was he?
He co-founded and headed Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983,
Wislawa Szymborska
Hitler's First Photograph Any Case The End and the Beginning (all poems) nobel 1996
City 44 film maker and year?
Jan Komasa 2014
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Jaruzelski was Prime Minister of Poland, commander-in-chief of the Polish People's Army, and the leader of PZPR
october 16 1978
Karol wojtyla elected a pope john paul II
Katyn
Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Polish nationals carried out by the NKVD in April and May 1940
april 1999
NATO
september 1st 1939 -
Nazi Germany invades Poland. Beginning of World War II
Zbigniew Herbert
Our Fear
Joanna Rajkowska,
PALM TREE: Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue (2002) POND: Rajkowska about "Oxygenerator":
May 9th 1945
Soviet forces capture Warsaw in January VICTORY DAY
september 17th 1939
Soviet invasion of Poland
During 1981 - 1988 the underground "Solidarity" printed books, newsletters and stamps and organized strikes and other forms of nonviolent protest, and some of the "Solidarity" leaders were in hiding. T/F
TRUE
AK
The Home Army was the dominant Polish resistance movement in Poland occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II
April 1940
The Katyn massacre
Hanna Krall
The One from Hamburg
PRL
The Polish People's Republic founded 1947
PZPR
The Polish United Workers' Party was the Communist party which governed the Polish People's Republic from 1948 to 1989.
Tango
Thirty-six characters from different stages of life -- representations of different times -- interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. animated short film written and directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński.
Treblinka
Treblinka was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany
August 1st 1944
Warsaw ghetto uprising
Samizdat
Was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern bloc. Individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
When There is Talk of 1945
Cathedral (short film)
a 2002 short animated science fiction movie by Tomasz Bagiński, based on a short story by Jacek Dukaj
Zbigniew Libera
a Lego death camp
Janusz korczak
a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue
The declaration of martial law on December 13, 1981 shows that the Polish government....
acted under pressure from the Soviets to restore order in Poland
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
also known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact, was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on 23 August *1939*
Enigma
code encryption
1997
constitution
1953
death of stalin
december 13th 1981
martial law
where the parliamentary elections of June 4th 1989 free?
no they were called the semi-free elections of 1989
Zbigniew Rybczyński.
prdouced short film Tango
Tomasz Bagiński
produced short film Cathedral
August 1980
protest in gadansk beginning of the solidarity movment
april 1989
round table discussion
june 4th 1989
semi free parliamentary elections
when was the round table agreement held?
the spring of 1989
The main reasons which led to the Round Table Agreement in Poland were:
the very poor economic situation in the country and workers' strikes
Jerzy Popiełuszko
was a Polish Roman Catholic priest who became associated with the opposition Solidarity trade union in communist Poland
Sula benet
was a Polish anthropologist of the 20th century who studied Polish and Judaic customs and traditions. (Wedding stuff)
irena sendler
was a Polish nurse, humanitarian, and social worker who served in the Polish Underground IN WWII
The most important outcome of this talk....
was an agreement to hold parliamentary elections on June 4, 1989.
maximilian maria kolbe
who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz,
