... Korbonski Stefan Slessor Sir John Yalta Conference Hopkins Harry Kennan George F Poland Warsaw Ghetto Home Army underground movement resistance Nazis Red Army Allied forces Poland was the scene of Europe’s largest resistance movement during World War II. The principal act of that movement...

...Abe Jakubowicz was born on September 24, 1924 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. When Germany invaded Poland, Abe and his family lived in the ghettos. He and his father worked as slave laborers. He was separated from his father to work for a German ammunition factory. Abe was then taken to different...

...The overall negative portrayal of Poland and the Poles by Hollywood was a combination of factors. These include, at base, the absence of a tradition of interest in Polish subjects in American culture as a whole and the insignificant presence of Poles in the United States and hence of Poland...

...Cinematic depictions of Poland were a rarity for Hollywood. Poland and the Poles had minor roles on the margins of a few films, reflecting the margins of the American consciousness to which they were relegated. A comprehensive review of the Polish themes in American cinema of the war years...

...This chapter presents a brief outline of the events to which the film industry was reacting. Two themes are particularly noteworthy. The first is that many of the significant aspects of Poland's involvement in the war were ignored by Hollywood. The second is that the film industry made certain...

...Oscar Haber, born in BrzeŹnica, Poland in 1910, was one of ten children raised in a family of devoutly Orthodox Jews. He and his wife Fryda were the only survivors of their family. They both speak perfect Polish so they were able to live clandestinely as non-Jewish Poles with the help of a priest...

...Justine Lerner, born in Bialystok, Poland in 1923, was one of eight children in a close-knit Jewish family. Her family was forced to live in the ghetto and then went into hiding. However, they got caught and were shipped to Auschwitz. Justine was the only member of her family who survived...

... the family’s difficult and dangerous life in German-occupied Poland since Hitler invaded in 1939. It demonstrates Missy’s resilience, diplomatic skills, bravery, and commitment to family—all qualities her son will later exhibit in service to the US military. Bielaieff Count Alexandre Bielaieff Mikhael Poland...

..., and England were all good because they had been invaded or victimized by Nazi Germany. Poland, however, was represented in a negative light in numerous movies. This book draws on a close study of prewar and wartime films such as To Be or Not to Be (1942), In Our Time (1944...

...Chapter Fifteen recounts the beginning of World War II with Hitler's invasion of Poland, and how this disaster affected the Smiths on both a professional and personal level. Truman Smith was diagnosed with diabetes during this time, something that would eventually force him into military retirement...

... New York City Hasidim Poland Singer Isaac Bashevis Steinmetz Sol Yiddish and English Steinmetz community concept of Community The Sanders historians immigration landsmanschaften little community paradigm of Little Community and Peasant Society and Culture The Redfield nature and culture...

...Poland, returned to the map at the end of World War I, meant little to the United States after 1918. This was true in both political and cultural matters, and American films reflected this lack of interest. Indeed, the Polish population in the United States was also a community largely unknown...

...Poland's travails had no consequences for American policy, and public opinion continued to oppose active American involvement in the war after the September campaign. Within months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Washington quite obviously had no intention of opposing Soviet territorial expansion...

...Hollywood had much material to use but created only three films set in Poland. Two of them deal with the last days of peace and the immediate aftermath of the invasion. Only None Shall Escape, made in 1944, focuses on the occupation. Certainly the inattention to Poland reflected...

... in which Poland is portrayed, most unfavorably, are a virtual gallery of the activist radical left. They were members of the Communist Party. The left dominated Hollywood depictions of the war. Director André de Toth, himself a prominent leftist, noted that in the war era “Hollywoodites went berserk...

...Hollywood in World War II displayed a perfect combination for the woeful depiction of Poland. The fact that absolutely no one publicly known as Polish existed in wartime Hollywood discloses both the defensiveness of the Poles in America and their insignificance. American Poles deserve considerable...

...This chapter examines a fire-damaged religious icon that had reportedly been taken from Poland. The man who owned it, George Chesney of Orlando, Florida, wanted to return it to that country through Pope John Paul II. This case was investigated by the author and his colleague John F. Fischer...

...Twenty years after the conclusion of peace, war again erupted in Europe. In the early morning of the first of September 1939, German forces invaded Poland on the pretext of a contrived Polish provocation at the Silesian border town of Gleiwitz. All advantage lay with the attackers. The Germans...