The Odyssey Of The Polish Treasures

Author : Aloysius Balawyder
Publisher : Antigonish, N.S. : St. Francis Xavier University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey of the Polish Treasures written by Aloysius Balawyder and published by Antigonish, N.S. : St. Francis Xavier University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gordon Swoger
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550025155
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strange Odyssey of Poland's National Treasures, 1939-1961 written by Gordon Swoger and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland, 1939. Facing an imminent Nazi invasion, the decision is made to transport some of the country's most ancient and valuable historical objects to prevent their plunder by the invading army. After a perilous journey that takes them through Romania, France, and England in search of a safe haven, the royal treasures arrive in Canada, where they are expected to remain for the duration of the war. However, the treasures' odyssey has only begun. The war's end marks the beginning of a rivalry between Poland's wartime government-in-exile, operating out of London, and a newly established Communist government in Warsaw. While both sides vie for control of the treasures, their custodians in Canada spirit them away. Over the next 16 years the struggle ensnares the Roman Catholic Church, the RCMP, the federal government, and the Quebec government, led by the strong-willed Maurice Duplessis. All the while, the outcry from the people of Poland, who believe the treasures have been stolen by the very country meant to protect them, grows louder. Canada, 1961. The release of the historic treasures is finally negotiated and they are returned to their native soil. The strange odyssey ends where it began, with the treasures returned to the very castle from which they were removed, after an absence of more than two decades.

Author : Gordon Swoger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525258428
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strange Odyssey of Poland's National Treasures, 1939-1961 written by Gordon Swoger and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Strange Odyssey of Poland's National Treasures, 1939-1961 tells the story of the Polish national treasures -their evacuation from their homeland under perilous conditions after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and their subsequent removal to western Europe and then to Canada. At the end of the war two Polish governments, a Communist one in Warsaw and a non-Communist one in London, vied for control of the national treasures. Before long the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, the RCMP, and the Canadian and Quebec governments all became involved in the desperate hide-and-seek confrontation between the two Polish governments. Eventually, in February 1961, the release of the historic treasures was negotiated and they were returned to their native land, twenty-two years after their wartime departure. It was indeed a long voyage home!"

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Download or read book The Strange Odyssey of Poland's National Treasures, 1939-1961 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strange Odyssey of Poland's National Treasures, 1939-1961 tells the story of the Polish national treasures -their evacuation from their homeland under perilous conditions after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and their subsequent removal to western Europe and then to Canada. At the end of the war two Polish governments, a Communist one in Warsaw and a non-Communist one in London, vied for control of the national treasures. Before long the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, the RCMP, and the Canadian and Quebec governments all became involved in the desperate hide-and-seek confrontation between the two Polish governments. Eventually, in February 1961, the release of the historic treasures was negotiated and they were returned to their native land, twenty-two years after their wartime departure. It was indeed a long voyage home!

Author : Aloysius Balawyder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey of the Polish Treasures written by Aloysius Balawyder and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maria Poprzęcka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788321350158
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skarby sztuki w Polsce written by Maria Poprzęcka and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kazimierz Patalas
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887553591
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Providence Watching written by Kazimierz Patalas and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2003-12-03 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the Second World War, Poland was invaded by both the German and the Soviet armies. The country was unable to withstand the assaults and thousands of Polish soldiers and civilians were shipped to labour camps and prisons, where starvation, disease, and mistreatment were their daily expectations. With the signing of an amnesty between the Polish and Soviet governments in 1942, many of these soldiers were engaged in rebuilding the Polish army, and travelled through the Mideast to fight in the Italian campaign.After the war, Canada accepted over 4000 Polish immigrant soldiers and their families who did not want to return to a communist regime in their country. This book is a moving oral history of the experiences of forty-five individuals during that transition period between the outbreak of war and their eventual relocation in Canada. Their memories of those times remain clear, not so remarkably perhaps, as they recount how they struggled in labour and prison camps, refugee camps, and exile in freezing northern climates, often arriving with the clothes they wore and nothing else. There are stories here of families torn apart and reunited, courageous escapes, underground resistance, friendship and emnity, and above all of survival. To read these memoirs is to understand how the inhumanity of war is confronted and defied by the indomitable human spirit.

Author : Petro Andreas Nungovitch
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498569137
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here All Is Poland written by Petro Andreas Nungovitch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 10 April 2010, Polish President Lech Kaczyński and First Lady Maria Kaczyńska were killed in an airplane crash outside the city of Smolensk in western Russia, where they were flying to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet massacre of over twenty-one thousand Polish prisoners during the Second World War. Eight days later, the president and his wife were laid to rest beneath the Krakow Cathedral on Wawel Hill, an ancient necropolis of Polish kings and queens and the most prestigious burial site in all of Poland, where only six other meritorious, non-royal national figures have been enshrined since the demise of the Polish monarchy in the late eighteenth century. The decision to bury Lech and Maria Kaczyński in Poland’s highest national pantheon sparked an emotional debate about its symbolic appropriateness and underscored the question of how such burial decisions are actually made. It also raised a whole host of questions about the historical significance and pantheonic function of Wawel—the “bedrock of sacred memory for the Polish nation,” as Stanisław Staszic put it in the early nineteenth century—in modern Polish consciousness. Until now, these questions have received surprisingly little attention beyond Polish historians of Krakow. Here All Is Poland excavates and builds upon the extant scholarly discourse of Wawel to plot the evolution of a pantheonic funeral tradition over two hundred years, thus providing a context and a clue for interpreting the historical significance of the 2010 burial.

Author : Dorota Folga-Januszewska
Publisher : Bosz Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polish Commonwealth Treasures written by Dorota Folga-Januszewska and published by Bosz Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning work presents the rarest and most valuable treasures in Polish art collections. It includes paintings, altar panels, secular and religious masterpieces, and manuscripts that date before the invention of moveable type. The pieces in this volume come from Polish and international collections, many of them originally royal or aristocratic in origin.

Author : Patryk Polec
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773582088
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hurrah Revolutionaries written by Patryk Polec and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polish Canadians typically identify themselves as stringent anti-Communists, a label solidified by the legacies of the 1980s Solidarity movement, its founder Lech Walesa, and the widespread anti-Communist riots that helped topple the Communist regime in 1989. Hurrah Revolutionaries challenges this common perception by examining the Polish immigrant community in Canada and the development of radical and traditionally "deviant" ideologies during the interwar period until the end of the Second World War. Patryk Polec unveils a versatile, well-funded, and influential Polish pro-Communist movement with a talented leadership that worked tirelessly to persuade traditionally conservative and religious immigrants to adopt an ideology that was anti-nationalist and atheist. He traces the roots of socialist support in Poland, its transplantation to Canada where the movement enjoyed its greatest support, the challenges the movement faced within an ethnic community influenced by Catholicism, and the complications caused by its links to the Communist International. Polec offers a deeper understanding of the ways in which the Communist Party was able to appeal to certain ethnic groups through cultural outreach as well as its complicated and often counter-productive relationship with the Soviet Union. Grounded in recently declassified Polish consular documents and RCMP surveillance reports, Hurrah Revolutionaries is the first full-length study of Polish Communists in Canada, a group that constituted a substantial portion of the country’s socialist left in the twentieth century.