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    Lublin, 247 km (153 mi) from Warsaw. In 2021, the population of Zamość was 62,021. Zamość was founded in 1580 by Jan Zamoyski, Grand Chancellor of Poland...
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    in Zamość (pl), located on S. Okrzei street, served as the transit point for selections and further deportations. In the first month of Action Zamość the...
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    of Poles from the Zamość region (Zamojszczyzna) and the region's colonization by German settlers. The Polish defense of the Zamość region was one of Poland's...
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  • Zamość, founded in 1580, is a town in Poland. Zamość was founded in 1580 by the Chancellor and Hetman (head of the army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)...
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    Zwierzyniec (category Zamość County)
    Звежинець, romanized: Zvezhynetsʹ) is a town on the Wieprz river in the Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. It has 3,324 inhabitants (2004). Zwierzyniec...
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    000 Polish men and women were expelled in just a few months during Action Zamość. In Polish historiography the events surrounding the Nazi German roundups...
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    Zamość Fortress (Polish: Twierdza Zamość) is a set of fortifications constructed together with the city of Zamość (southeastern Poland). It was built...
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    The Battle of Komarów, or the Zamość Ring, was one of the most important battles of the Polish-Soviet War. It took place between 20 August and 2 September...
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    took part in the Zamość uprising - a series of partisan actions against the forced Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany from the Zamość region.[citation...
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    very few German settlers were brought to the area (see Zamość Uprising). Other major actions included liberation of prisoners from prisons in Pińczów...
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    branches located in various other towns, including Kępno, Wieluń, Sieradz and Zamość. The UWZ also supervised the network of resettlement camps for Poles. In...
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    concentrated and ruthless actions aimed at pushing back or liquidating the Polish element from the south-eastern districts ofin Zamość (Hrubieszowski, Tomaszowski...
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    women and children. This atrocity was part of the ethnic cleansing of the Zamość region. In the autumn of 1942, at the direction of SS-Brigadeführer Odilo...
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  • Battle of Ulhówek and Rzeczyca (category Zamość)
    the offensive, it prevented the UPA from making any deep inroads into the Zamość County. The battle near Ulhówek and Rzeczyca was the largest battle fought...
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  • women and children. This atrocity was part of the ethnic cleansing of the Zamość region. Majdan Nowy, situated in Biłgoraj County, Gmina Księżpol (previously...
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    completely burned. This atrocity was part of the ethnic cleansing of the Zamość region and was additionally seen as retribution against the civilian population...
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  • and Zamość districts were obliged to provide assistance to the Hrubieszów district troops. In the first days of March, a detailed plan of action was discussed...
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  • gathered, was enough to prosecute him. The trial began in autumn 1998 in Zamość and from the very beginning was accompanied by great emotions. In October...
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    Bełżec. The Zamość Uprising was an armed uprising of Armia Krajowa and Bataliony Chłopskie against the forced expulsion of Poles from the Zamość region under...
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    Rosa Luxemburg (category People from Zamość)
    Szlam (Rosa's grandmother) and moving to Zamość. Abraham built a successful timber business there, based in Zamość and Warsaw but with links as far away...
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    were expelled from the Zamość region as part of Nazi plans for establishment of German colonies in the conquered territories. Zamość itself was to be renamed...
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    extermination. At Auschwitz concentration camp 200 to 300 Polish children from the Zamość area were murdered by the Nazis by phenol injections. The child was placed...
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    worked at the train station, testified about Hering (file No.: Ds. 1604/45 – Zamość. Dated 15 October 1945 / Belzec-OKBZ): Once the major [sic], the commander...
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    Kraków, Warsaw, Wrocław (dwarf statues), Gdańsk, Poznań, Lublin, Toruń and Zamość as well as museums, zoological gardens, theme parks and the Wieliczka Salt...
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    total strength was 670 privates; 59 NCOs and four . Battalion fought at Zamość Uprising In late autumn, Stanislaw Basaj's troops were quartered and gathering...
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  • a mass execution. This massacre was part of the ethnic cleansing of the Zamość region and was additionally considered retaliation for a prior attack by...
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  • 000–12,000 Jews were deported from ghettos in Izbica, Piaski, in Lubartów, Zamość and Kraśnik with the aid one of the Trawniki battalions of Karl Streibel...
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    movement; in the years 1941-44 a successful action was carried out against the expulsion of Poles from the Zamość region. Besides, the "Polish underground"...
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  • Khmelnytsky who loathed him, or perished of plague during the siege of Zamość in 1648. Kryvonis (Polish: Maksym Krzywonos) was also a character in With...
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    and Zamość districts were obliged to provide assistance to the Hrubieszów district troops. In the first days of March, a detailed plan of action was discussed...
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