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The Polish government wrote a White Book with proof of the mass extermination of jews in german occupied Poland and gave it to the United Nations on December 10th, 1942.
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Pope John Paul II was a polyglot. He spoke 12 languages; Polish, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, German, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Esperanto. He used 9 as Pope. He learned them in 1938, just before the Nazis occupied Poland.
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During WWII, in German-occupied Poland, Three brothers of the Bielski family started a Jewish Partisan dedicated to saving Jews. They lived in the woods for 2 years in underground dugouts and managed to save 1,236 men, women and children. They built over 6 service buildings during their stay.
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Polish Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland.
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Brest, Poland was jointly occupied by both armies until war broke out between the Soviet Union and Germany.
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Moscow occupied its part of Poland according to Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact under pretence of "protecting the Ukrainians and Belarusians who lived in the eastern part of Poland, because the Polish state – according to Soviet propaganda – had collapsed"
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IBM had a subsidiary in German-occupied Poland, that facilitated rail logistics used for the Holocaust
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Today is the Feast Day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Catholic priest who was martyred for rejecting Nazism, and helping Jews in occupied Poland during World War 2.
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Jerry Springer is the son of Jewish refugees who fled to England from Nazi-occupied Poland, and he was born in a London tube station while it was being used as a bomb shelter.
