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    Rovno Ghetto (redirect from Równe Ghetto)
    city of Równe was the largest agglomeration in the province of Volhynia (Wołyń) of the Second Polish Republic. About 25,000 Jews lived in Równe, Wołyń...
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    and Stydyń were detached from county of Równe and one of Kostopol was formed. At same arrangements Majków gmina of Ostróg was passed to Równe one, Beresteczko...
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  • took Lwów. Some members of the theater troupe, including Róża, were trapped in Równe (Rovne) and sent to the ghetto, where Róża was shot dead by the...
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    Voivodeship was established with the capital in Łuck, and the largest city being Równe. Most of eastern Volhynian Governorate became part of the Ukrainian SSR...
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    romanized: Rovno, also the former spelling in Ukrainian until 1991 Polish: Równe Yiddish: ראָוונע Rivne was first mentioned in 1283 in the Polish annals...
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    Soviet-held Volhynia. Pressed from all directions, the 1st Cavalry Army lost Równe on 18 September and was forced to retreat further eastwards. By the end...
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    settling in 1922 in the predominantly Yiddish-speaking town of Równe, also called Równe Wołyńskie by the inhabitants, in the Kresy Wschodnie (Eastern Borderlands)...
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    reported on May 11, 1942, ca 1,000 Jews were executed in Minsk. On July 13–14, 1942, the remaining population of the Równe ghetto – about 5,000 Jews – was sent...
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    1942, he was assigned to head one of the Wachlarz units operating from Równe in eastern Poland (now Rivne in western Ukraine). Arrested by the Gestapo...
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    football competitions (Polish: Lwówskie okręgowe rozgrywki w piłce nożnej) were a regional association football competitions on territory of Lwów Voivodeship...
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    was born in Równe (then in Poland, now in Ukraine). He was sent to the British Mandate for Palestine by his parents in 1938. His parents were murdered in...
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  • in Równe, Poland. October 1941: sent to Lwów, Poland. At the time, roughly half of Równe's inhabitants were Jewish. About 23,000 of these people were taken...
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  • Jan Kobylański (21 July 1923, Równe, Poland – 27 March 2019, Montevideo, Uruguay) was a Polish-Paraguayan businessman. He was the founder of the Union...
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    Vohlynian Cavalry Brigade was formed on April 1, 1937, out of sub-units of the Równe Cavalry Brigade, and several smaller detachments. Formed out of recruits...
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  • Lost in 1920: Boruciątko Boruta – 25 July at Kuźnica Dąbrowski – 5 July at Równe Generał Dowbór – 6 June at Wczerajsze Generał Konarzewski – 9 July at Bobrujsk...
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    gendarmerie in Grudziądz, he was stationed as a soldier of the Polish Army in Równe (then in Poland, now Rivne, Ukraine). He was captured during the Soviet...
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    songs and dances which were popular with sailors, fishermen and merchants. The more popular dances in the region included walce równe (an even waltz) and...
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    28 was resent southwards, this time to Volhynia. On July 4, 1920, near Rowne, the 1st Cavalry Brigade fought a prolonged battle against 1st Cavalry Army...
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    and Sandomierz (Poland), Znamianka and Borysivka (Ukraine) Stalag 360 in Równe and Żytyń Wielki (Poland) Stalag 361 in Šiauliai (Lithuania) Stalag 362...
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    Włodzimierz, Kowel, Łuck, Dubno, Równe as well as part of Ostróg incorporated into Równe and northwest part of Krzemieniec were transferred under the direct...
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    Polish-American first engaged the Bolshevik forces near the town of Rivne (Równe in Polish) on 18 June 1919. After pushing the Bolsheviks east, the Blue...
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    (in Ukrainian). Znicz. p. 85-86. Kraszyńska, Fanny (1938). Żydzi Łuccy do końca XVII w. (in Ukrainian). Vol. VII. Równe: Rocznik Wołyński. pp. 139–178....
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    Kraków, Lwów, Wilno, Gdynia, Łódz, Częstochowa, Zamość, Łuck, Kalisz and Równe. The movement - due to the conspiratorial conditions of its activities -...
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    Lieutenant Colonel Józef II Kuś (12 March 1929 – 31 March 1930 → commander of Równe Recruitment Area Command) Major Jan Palewicz (acting, 31 March 1930 – 23...
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    Stanislawow, Równe, Lwów, Brody, Dzyatlava District, and Ternopil. Altogether, between 1944 and 1946, more than a million Poles from the Kresy were moved to...
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    Volhynia (Polish: Wołyń), now in Ukraine. Largest city: Rivne (Polish: Równe). Historical capital: Lutsk (Polish: Łuck). Formerly entirely part of Poland...
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    transformed itself into Solidarity; by September, more than one million workers were on strike in support of the 21 demands of MKS, making it the largest strike...
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    18th centuries they were located in Lubomierz, Nowy Wiśnicz, Bochnia, Wieliczka, Łańcut, Baranów Sandomierski, Puławy, Rzeszów, Równe, Tarnów, Jarosław...
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  • Rossmanists were also noted in Pomerania, Silesia, Podlasie (Lomza, Siedlce), Kraków, Wilno, Łódz, Czestochowa, Lowicz, Plock, Lublin, Łuck and Równe - these...
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    Chełm, and joined Second Cavalry Division. In mid-September it captured Równe, and moved towards the Sluch river, behind the retreating Red Army. In December...
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