1919–1939. The province's capital and biggest city was Lublin. The Voivodeship was founded by the decree of Polish Parliament Sejm of 14 August 1919....

Lublin Voivodeship (Polish: województwo lubelskie [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ luˈbɛlskʲɛ] ) is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in the southeastern part...

Sandomierz, they were able to move on to the Lublin area. The eastern edge of the Vistula was defended by Lublin's weak army. The Polish forces were only camped...

north-east, Wilno Voivodeship and Nowogródek Voivodeship to the east, Polesie Voivodeship and Lublin Voivodeship to the south and Warsaw Voivodeship to the west...

Stanisław "Szlomo" Szmajzner (13 March 1927 – 3 March 1989) was one of 58 known survivors of the Sobibór extermination camp in German-occupied Poland and...

Kraków Voivodeship (Polish: województwo krakowskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1919–1939. It occupied...

Warsaw Voivodeship (Polish: województwo warszawskie) was a voivodeship of Poland in the years 1919–1939. Its capital and biggest city was Warsaw. In the...

Pomeranian Voivodeship or Pomorskie Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Pomorskie) was an administrative unit of Interwar poland (from 1919 to 1939). It ceased...

Henryk Bąk (2 January 1923 – 29 August 1987) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1952 and 1980. Eroica (1958)...

Mieczysław Kalenik (1 January 1933 – 16 June 2017) was a Polish actor. Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960) The First Day of Freedom (1964) Stawka większa...

Lucjan Sosnowski (6 January 1934 – 4 September 1999) was a Polish wrestler. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics. Evans...

following former voivodeships: the eastern parts of Kielce Voivodship and Kraków Voivodship, the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship, and the western...

Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship to the west, Łódź Voivodeship and Warsaw Voivodeship to the north, Lublin Voivodeship and Lwów Voivodeship to the east and...

(Polish: bitwa pod Husynnem) was an armed engagement fought on 24 September 1939 between the Polish Army and the Red Army during the Nazi and Soviet invasion...

September 1939, he was educated in a Catholic school in Warsaw where he received strict religious education. World War II commenced on 1 September 1939 with...

Thadée Cisowski (16 February 1927 – 24 February 2005), originally Tadeusz Cisowski, was a French footballer who played as a striker. A son of Polish immigrants...

the First Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski), Polish forces, composed of Army Lublin and Army Krakow under general Piskor attempted to break through the German...

Izbica Ghetto created by the SS in 1941, the largest transit ghetto in the Lublin Reservation. In October 1942, the family decided to split up and leave Izbica...

(the British prohibited Jewish emigration to Palestine, see White Paper of 1939). In one of his operations Botzer was caught and expelled to Cyprus internment...

Kazimierz Waldemar Olech Born 6 August 1928 Kraśnik, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland Died 12 January 2016 (2016-01-13) (aged 87) Warsaw, Poland Alma mater Warsaw...

during the Soviet invasion of Poland. They took place on September 29–30 of 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War. They resulted in a Polish victory...

off the electricity. After escaping the extermination camp, he wandered Lublin District with his brother and other survivors. They eventually found shelter...

The World War II Battle of Krasnobród took place on 23 September 1939 near the town of Krasnobród. It was fought between the forces of the Polish Army...

Republic. Formed in June 1920, it fought both in the Polish–Soviet War and the 1939 Invasion of Poland. The regiment was garrisoned in the town of Kraśnik, and...

Polish stage and film actor. He studied law at the Catholic University in Lublin from 1947 to 1950. At the same time, he attended acting classes at a local...

communist who was a member of the French Resistance during World War II (1939-1945). He and another man were arrested and executed for taking part in an...

1924 and then the National Theatre, the Reduta Theatre from 1919 to 1924, and from 1928 to 1939 – the Nowy Theatre, which staged productions of contemporary...

Jaruzelski Personal details Born (1929-04-17)17 April 1929 Siedlce, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland Died 8 November 2000(2000-11-08) (aged 71) Warsaw, Poland...

The Battle of Cześniki took place on 21 and 22 September 1939 during the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, around the village of Cześniki near Zamość...

interbellum, Chełm was a county seat, administratively located in the Lublin Voivodeship (1919–1939) of the Second Polish Republic. During the joint German-Soviet...