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	Battle_of_wizna info here at en.after-gasoline-alley.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Battle of Wizna (sometimes referred to as the Polish Thermopylae) was fought in September 6 & September 10, 1939, in the firmnesss of Poland & Germany over the incipient notchs of Invasion of Poland.
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		The Wizna fortified sphere was singular of the greater of stage nodes in the area, providing compass of both the river crossings, & the roads ÅomÅ¼a-BiaÅystok & roads towards BrzeÅÄ Litewski on the rearward of Polish forces.
	en.after-gasoline-alley.info /Battle_of_Wizna (1467 words)

	Battle of Wizna - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Battle of Wizna (sometimes referred to as the Polish Thermopylae) was fought between September 6 and September 10, 1939, between the forces of Poland and Germany during the initial stages of Polish Defence War of 1939.
		Before the war the area of the village of Wizna was prepared as a fortified line of defence.
		The Wizna fortified area was one of the most important nodes in the area, providing cover of both the river crossings, and the roads Łomża-Białystok and roads towards Brześć Litewski on the rear of Polish forces.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Battle_of_Wizna (1583 words)

	Polish September Campaign - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The largest battle during this campaign (Battle of Bzura) took place near the Bzura river west of Warsaw from 9 September to 18 September, when Polish armies Poznań and Pomorze, retreating from the border area of the Polish Corridor, attacked the flank of the advancing German 8th army.
		Despite a Polish victory at the battle of Szack, after which the Soviets executed all the NCOs and officers they had managed to capture, the Red Army reached the line of rivers Narew, Western Bug, Vistula and San by September 28, in many cases meeting German units advancing from the other side.
		Finally, apart from the victims of the battles, the German forces (both SS and the regular Wehrmacht) are credited with mass murder of several thousands of Polish POWs and civilians.
	arikah.com /encyclopedia/Polish_September_Campaign_1939 (6604 words)

	Battle of Brześć Litewski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Battle of Brześć Litewski (otherwise known as the Siege of Brześć, Battle of Brest-Litovsk or simply Battle of Brześć) was a World War II battle that took place between 14 and 17 September 1939, near the town of Brześć Litewski (now Brest, Belarus).
		However, after the Battles of Wizna and Mława the German XIX Panzer Corps under General Heinz Guderian broke through Polish lines and sped southward with the aim of outflanking Warsaw from the East and cutting Poland in two.
		After the Battle of Kobryń the division evaded encirclement and joined the forces of General Plisowski.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Battle_of_Brzesc.htm (1377 words)

	Wizna, Poland Genealogy - Feldstein Genealogy Services
		Wizna was first mentioned in sources in 1113.
		The village is situated near the bank of the river Biebrza toward the Narew, 25 miles east of Lomza, at 53°13' N and 22°23' E. In 1435, Wizna received the status of "city." Following the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, Wizna's greatness declined and in 1870, she lost the status of "city."
		In 1939, Wizna was the site for the Battle of Wizna at the beginning of the Polish-German War of 1939.
	feldstein.info /resources/wizna.php (440 words)

	This Day in History: Polish Forces captured Monte Cassino (World War II) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Battle of Zadwórze (sometimes referred to as the "Polish Thermopylae") was a battle of the Polish-Bolshevik War.
		Battle Among the volunteer units organised in Lwów was a group of soldiers of Major (later a general) Roman Abraham.
		Because of the heroic defence and high casualties, the battle of Zadwórze was nick-named the "Polish Battle of Thermopylae".
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1634334/posts (2561 words)

	Niew1a
		He and his nephew Sunislaw, from Zakliczewo (4) in 1417 for their merits received sixty wlók (5) of land in Niewodowo and Drozdowo area of the Wizna region (6,7) from Janusz, the Mazovian Prince of Czersk and Warsaw.
		That privilege was approved in 1420 by Ziemowit IV, Prince of Plock to Sunislaw and to Szymon's sons: Adam, Mikolaj, and Jan. In 1420 Sunislaw of Zakliczewofounded a parochial church in Drozdowo.
		Tracing Niewodowskis from the Wizna region is difficult as the Drozdowo church, with its three hundred years old documents, had been burnt to the ground in 1737 (27).
	www.geocities.com /a_gulinski/niew1a.htm (1863 words)

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		The largest battle during this campaign, the Battle of Bzura, took place near the Bzura river west of Warsaw and lasted from 9 September to 18 September.
		This, however, did not prevent some clashes and small battles, like the Battle of Grodno, as soldiers and local population attempted to defend the city.
		The city of LwÃ³w capitulated on 22 September in a turn of events illustrative of the bizarre turn due to Soviet intervention; the city had been attacked by the Germans over a week earlier and in the middle of the siege, the German troops handed operations over to their Soviet allies.
	mangilao.guamus.com /info/Invasion_of_Poland_(1939) (6684 words)

	lomza.html
		After many long and difficult battles, Lomza found itself essentially destroyed, remaining with only about a dozen wooden houses and about a thousand remaining residents, who lived in poverty.
		In 1797 the City was conquered by Prussia, and in the eleven years (1797 – 1807) of Prussian rule Lomza was reduced to the status of a village, no longer a municipality.
		Because of the evacuation of towns in which battles still raged, Lomza became a concentration of tens of thousands of refugee Jews from Brisk, Pinsk, Chomsk, Baranowice, Stolin, and others.
	hashkedim.com /lomza.html (12368 words)

	BREST-LITOVSK, BREST, BRISK, BRESTYE, BERESTIE, BERESTOV, BRZESC, sometimes Russia or Poland and now Belarus - Jewish ...
		September 14 - the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes (of two, the second in February 1915) was the second victory of the war by the Germans over the Russian army, the first occurring at Tannenberg in late August.
		September 14 - The Battle of Brzesc Litewski (otherwise known as the Siege of Brzesc, Battle of Brest-Litovsk or simply Battle of Brzesc) was a World War II battle that started on September 14, near the town of Brzesc Litewski (now Brest, Belarus).
		Fighting fierce rear guard battles the Fourth Army was withdrawing from Brest north and south of the Dnieper-Bug Canal.
	www.brest-belarus.com /History_1900_2005.shtml (12154 words)

	Blitzkrieg @ GamersInfo.net
		Despite Soviet and Polish government protests, Guderian was not charged with any war crimes during the Nuremberg Trials, as his actions and behavior were considered consistent with that of a professional soldier.
		Poland argued that at the Battle of Wizna, Guderian had threatened the Polish commander with shooting prisoners of war if he did not order the remaining Polish forces to surrender.
		Contrary to the Poles, most in the west felt he was justified to make such threats, as they interpreted this as a harmless bluff.
	blitzkrieg.gamersinfo.net /glossary/?id=3 (733 words)

	HyperWar: "The German Campaign in Poland (1939)" [Part III]
		The capital was held by a large garrison, reinforced by the units that had escaped encirclement in the battles farther west, and a large part of the heavy artillery required for an assault on Warsaw's defenses was committed at Modlin, the fortress city a short distance down the Vistula.
		The bulk of the army group's armor was far to the east at Brzesc, and Hitler was unwilling to accept the heavy casualties an infantry assault on Warsaw would cost.
		Little mention was made of the horse drawn supply columns, of the infantry divisions which often marched on foot at the rate of 30 miles per day, or of the repeated Luftwaffe bombings of advance German units.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/DAP-Poland/Campaign-III.html (20448 words)

	PolishRoots - Surnames: Origins & Meanings
		The second entry is from 1470 and quotes entries in legal records for the Commonwealth Chancellory, saying a Maciej Koniecki acquired 20 wlokas of the forest called "Wandal~y" and later called "Wa~dol~y," in Wizna district, and founded the village Koniecki Wa~dol~owo, from which his heirs took the name Wa~dol~owski, of Odrowa~z* arms.
		The 1577 entry is from Lomza city records, and the 1580 from Wizna city records, etc., telling of routine matters where so and so "signed off" [pisze sie] on something.
		The most famous Grunwald was the site of a battle in 1410 in which Polish and Lithuanian forces defeated the Teutonic Knights, a major event in the history of Poland.
	www.polishroots.org /surnames/surnames_23.htm (8516 words)

	Polish September Campaign information information - Search.com
		303 "Kościuszko" Polish Fighter Squadron formed from Polish pilots in the United Kingdom almost 2 months after the Battle of Britain begun is famous for achieving the highest number of enemy kills during the Battle of Britain of all fighter squadrons then in operation.
		Polish to Germany forces in the September Campaign: 1 million soldiers 4,300 guns, 880 tanks, 435 aircraft to 1,8 million soldiers, 10,000 guns, 2,800 tanks, 3,000 aircraft.
		French and participating Allies to German forces in the Battle of France: 2,862,000 soldiers, 13,974 guns, 3,384 tanks, 3,099 aircraft 2 to 3,350,000 soldiers, 7,378 guns, 2,445 tanks, 5,446 aircraft.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Polish_September_Campaign (6762 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Kraków - Seat of the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania
		After 150 years of Jagiellon rule, Sigismund II Augustus brought an end to the male line of the royal house by not producing a male heir with any of his three wives.
		When fighting Western European foes the infantry's firepower was crucial to prepare the way for the cavalry, although the outcome of a battle was decided by heavy cavalry charges.
		A strong reserve was an important component in most battles of this period, used only when the enemy had committed all his forces and then unleashed in a devastating charge.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?p=4515544 (6311 words)

	At the Narew river
		Among them were Pultusk, Rozan, Ostroleka, Nowogrod, Wizna, Suraz and Narew.
		As the dates of towns' founding indicate, colonization moved from the west to the upper parts of the river and is associated with Mazovian people.
		The most significant monuments in Ostroleka are Mary the Visited church from the 15th c., which was then reconstructed in the Baroque style, the Bernardines complex, and the monument erected on the location of the battle during the November Uprising roleka was the last big battle of that uprising.
	ettc.uwb.edu.pl /strony/bialystok/pluca/narew.html (1092 words)

	LETTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cholowinska, the sister of Jadwiga Laudanska, in the spring of 1940 found herself in the partisan camp at Uroczysko Kobielne situated deep within the Biebrza swamps and - after a battle between the Poles and the Soviet army there on 23 June 1940 - was taken prisoner.
		Our conversation, conducted in Jedwabne, was concerned with that battle and not with the relations in the town where both ladies used to live.
		Nevertheless, at some point Lucja Cholowinska-Chojnowska stated: "In Jedwabne, inhabited mostly by the Jews, there were only three houses without a red flag during the entry of the Soviets.
	www.citinet.net /ak/polska_56_f2.html (4765 words)

	Tomasz Strzembosz Jedwabne 1941
		That's why a number of men from that region (including the immobilized reservists) took part in the battle of Grodno and the region of Sopockinie - this time already against the Red Army.
		Our conversation, conducted in Jedwalme, was concerned with that battle and not with the relations in the town where both ladies used to live.
		Kazimierz Odyniec, M.D., the son of Sergeant Antoni Odyniec (killed in the battle of Kobielno on 23 June 1940), wrote in his letter of 20 June 1991: "By the end ofApril 1940 a local Jew in the uniform of the Soviet militia came to our appartment and ordered Father to report to the NKVD office...
	www.antyk.org.pl /ojczyzna/jedwabne/strzembosz.htm (18093 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Airborne Attack on Sukch'on/Sunch'on (10/20/1950) - Oct, 20th 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After a battle lasting two and a half hours, the North Koreans overran two platoons and forced I Company, with ninety men missing, to withdraw to Hill 281 west of the railroad.
		While the Yongyu battle was in progress, the 2d Battalion, 187th Airborne Regiment, remained relatively inactive in its drop zone at Sunch'on.
		Altogether, the 187th Airborne Regiment suffered 46 jump casualties and 65 battle casualties in the Sukch'on-Sunch'on operations.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1004202/posts (7761 words)

	Heinz Guderian
		Despite Soviet and Polish government protests, Guderian was not charged with any war crimes during the Nuremberg Trials, as his actions and behavior were consistent with that of a professional soldier.
		Poland argued that at the Battle of Wizna, Guderian had threatened the Polish commander Władysław Raginis with shooting prisoners of war if he did not order the remaining Polish forces to surrender.
		Some military historians view this as a masterful bluff; however Poles generally do not regard it as such; furthermore thousands of Red Army POWs were killed by soldiers under Guderian's command
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Guderian (1099 words)

	Welcome to the home of the UnderDark Confederation (UDC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Faction leader Wizna has retaken the zones, after which UDC-DR was on the verge of a war with HoC.
		After long and hard negotiating both sides agreed to end the conflict and leave matters as they are.
		After a short and intensive battle UDC forces destroyed almost the entire assault force and won, though with heavy losses.
	www.sparhawk.flyserver.biz /announce.htm (5216 words)

	ODGW Support Forum: Russian/Polish TQ and Morale Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		MMG has its research and understanding of the Soviet army, and since it is working very well and yielding historical results in the battles we have fought, we will continue to use it.
		And only German reinforcements helped them to win the battle (Germans had to engage about 800 tanks and armoured cars).
		In "classcic panzer battles" German Panzerwaffe lost 70 tanks and 30 armoured cars.
	www.odgw.com /discus/messages/1/773.html?1095245502 (3971 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
		Members were known as towarzysz husarski and were supported by pocztowy's.
		Pancerni: medium cavalry, armed with sabers or axes, bows, later pistols.
		Second important cavalry branch of the Polish army.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth (5151 words)

	22
		Captured soldiers and equipment at the battle of Lemberg:
		Taking command over the South-, west and north-front of Warschau.
		X.A.K.: standing in the Bzura – Weichsel bow.
	chrito.users1.50megs.com /1939/sep/22sept39.htm (971 words)

	Notes on Poland -- Part 4
		Still faced with superior force, Juniors negotiate retention of northern section of Salomea's fief, and recognition as suzerain princes (in presence of Russians!).
		Four castles and environs to Wladyslaw, and Wizna (in Mazovia) to Kievians.
		Schlacht - battle or killing.) Root of Eng.
	slavic.freeservers.com /Poland4.html (1984 words)

	Jedwabne - all english articles in the site
		They gave support to the Polish units being pushed eastward, and many unmoblilized reservists and youths in the pre-conscript age went in large numbers also eastward to find a military body prepared to accept them and give them arms.
		That's why a number of men from that region (including the unmobilized reservists) took part in the battle of Grodno and the region of Sopockinie - this time already against the Red Army.
		In this battle, our units lost six dead and six wounded.
	www.geocities.com /jedwabne/english/jedwabne.htm (16497 words)

	Gazeta Wyborcza Article About Radzilow
		Szlomo Finkielsztejn was killed in a battle during the [Israel] War of Independence.
		It was as a result of this war that Israel was proclaimed a free state.
		Apart from Antonina Wyrzykowska and Stanislaw Ramotowski, the medals "The Righteous Among the Nations of the World" have been also awarded to the farmers in these same parts who sheltered for three years, a [Jewish] tailor from Wizna, Israel Lewin, with his wife and two children.
	www.radzilow.com /gazeta1.htm (12621 words)

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